Why Israel is Hated

All the losers and riffraff of the world naturally despise Israel and Jews because they envy and resent high achievers and the Jewish people and nation have achieved enormous success disproportionate to their tiny population. Not only have Jews in the diaspora contributed to science, medicine, technology and the arts, Israel as a country is only second to America in technological contributions and Israel is highest in per capita innovation. Leftists identify with losers and want to tear down doers and achievers, thus they side with the muslim world and want to destroy America and Israel.

THE ISRAEL TEST
THE NATION IS A SYMBOL OF THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN ACHIEVEMENT AND ENVY

By GEORGE GILDER

Israeli president Shimon Peres oversees a nation with a GDP of $200.7 billion (in 2088), and a per-capita income of $28,200.

Posted: 2:42 am
July 26, 2009

The central issue in international politics, dividing the world into two fractious armies, is the tiny state of Israel.

The prime issue is not a global war of civilizations between the West and Islam or a split between Arabs and Jews. These conflicts are real and salient, but they obscure the deeper moral and ideological war.

The real issue is between admiration of achievement versus envy and resentment of it.

The test can be summarized by a few questions: What is your attitude toward people who excel you in the creation of wealth or in other accomplishments? Do you aspire to their excellence, or do you seethe at it? Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement, or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down?

In countries where Jews are free to invent and create, they pile up conspicuous wealth and arouse envy and suspicion. In this age of information, when the achievements of mind have widely outpaced the power of masses and material force, Jews have forged much of the science and wealth of the era. Their pioneering contributions to quantum theory enabled the digital age. Their breakthroughs in nuclear science and computer science propelled the West to victory in World War II and the cold war. Their bioengineering inventions have enhanced the health, and their microchip designs are fueling the growth of nations everywhere. Their genius has leavened the culture and economy of the world.

Israel today concentrates the genius of the Jews. Obscured by the usual media coverage of the "war-torn" Middle East, Israel's rarely celebrated feats of commercial, scientific, and technological creativity climax the Jews' twentieth-century saga of triumph over tragedy. Today tiny Israel, with its population of 7.23 million, five and one-half million Jewish, stands behind only the United States in technological contributions. In per-capita innovation, Israel dwarfs all nations. The forces of civilization in the world continue to feed upon the quintessential wealth of mind epitomized by Israel.

Assuming that wealth is distributed from above, chiefly by government, rather than generated by invention and ingenuity, Israel's critics see the world as a finite sum of resources. Believing that Israel, like the United States, has seized too much of the world's resources, they advocate vast programs of international retribution and redistribution. In their view, Israel's wealth stems not from Jewish creativity and genius but from cadging aid from the United States or seizing valuable land and other resources from Arabs.

This vision of zero-sum economics manifests itself around the globe. Perhaps some of you readers share it.

You believe that capitalist achievement comes at the expense of others or of the environment. You believe that "behind every great fortune is a great crime." You advocate the redistribution of wealth. You think we all benefit when the government "spreads the wealth around."

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