You post is so full of holes I'm getting a hole in my head. |
Are you sure you didn't have one to begin with?
Religious fanatics don't want to work. Agree. Thats why we need the state to change it so they can't freeload anymore. They can study Torah on there own free time, just like any other recreational activity.
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Calling something my opinion (which I later back with facts) or claiming that something can be changed does not constitute identifying a hole in my argument.
Smarter Jews want to move out. Again, that is you opinion.
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Backed by
statistics as well as a lot of personal observation. Natural selection is gradually taking place with the smartest Jews moving out of Israel (which takes determination) and mostly just the fanatics moving in (which is the path of least resistance for many). Why would anyone choose Israel over America except irrational religious bull?
The land the "country" is built on isn't getting any less stolen. It is no more stolen than England, the US, Peru, or practically any other modern country.
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Those countries were not passed from one collective group to an other by a government that is still in power today. The violation of property rights (i.e. whether the natives really did agree to give up land for trinkets) in those early cases is not documented, it is in the case of Israel. There is a big difference between 1066 / 1492 and the twentieth century!
the "Palestinians", which btw is a concept invented no earlier than 1964. |
So you don't get to have rights unless you self-identify as a part of a civilization that goes back at least 2500 years? The Palestinians, as I see them, are not united by anything but circumstance. If the United Nations had decided to give away Rockingham County, NH to the Native Americans or the Rwandan Tutsis, the people whose property would be stolen to facilitate that could be called the Rockinghamians.
Geographically they were supposed to be a bigger center of finance and trade than Singapore Have you heard of the political situation in the Middle East?
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Which Israel has created?
but look at their exports-per-capita numbers... I'd say 28 in the world is not that bad, considering you know the little security inconveniences that arise from time to time.
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Israel's "security inconveniences" are a net positive for its trade balance, which allows them to develop the most tyrannical Big Brother tech first and then sell it to other governments. In light of all the unfair advantages Israel has, #28 is damn awful. No other country of comparable size and per-capita GDP does worse!
28th is better than the US, better than Japan. |
Of course it's better than the US, most of our trade is internal (i.e. between the states). And Japan makes money from foreign investments (i.e. car manufacturing plants in other countries). And little countries have an advantage in this statistic, especially those located at the cross-roads of multiple continents. The comparison with Singapore is most valid.
Don't you have any more convincing data to base you anti-Israeli sentiments on? |
I've already mentioned plenty to back up my original point, which was in defense of the following statement: "by definition if you are pro-israeli you must be statist-something". In fact, Israel's
percentage of far-left cretins is so high there might be a communist revolution in store once it begins to collapse!
And only a hand-full of first-world countries rank below Israel in terms of
quality-of-life, or
economic /
press freedom. None rank worse in the
Failed States Index. And we all know what the
Global Peace Index has to say...
(out of time, will finish later)