Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Listen up, anti-Zionists

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=4579
 
 
In a typically maladroit statement, U.S. Secretary of State John F.
Kerry recently complained that Israelis are too contented to end their
conflict with the Palestinians: "People in Israel aren't waking up
every day and wondering if tomorrow there will be peace because there
is a sense of security and a sense of accomplishment and of
prosperity."
 
While Kerry misunderstands Israelis (Palestinian rejectionism, not
prosperity, caused them to give up on diplomacy), he is right that
Israelis have a "sense of security and … of prosperity." They are
generally a happy lot. A recent poll found 93 percent of Jewish
Israelis proud of be Israeli. Yes, Iranian nuclear weapons loom and
confrontation with Moscow is possible, but things have never been so
good. With thanks to Efraim Inbar of Bar-Ilan University for some of
the following information, let us count the ways.
 
-- Women need to give birth to 2.1 children to sustain a country's
population; Israel has a birthrate of 2.65, making it the only
advanced country to exceed replacement (The next highest is France at
2.08; the lowest is Singapore at 0.79.). While haredim and Arabs
account for some of this robust rate, secular Jews are the key.
 
-- Israel enjoyed a 14.5% growth of gross domestic product during the
2008-12 recession, giving it the highest economic growth rate of any
OECD country. (In contrast, the advanced economies as a whole had a
2.3% growth rate, with the United States weighing in at 2.9% and the
Euro zone at minus 0.4%.) Israel invests 4.5% of its GDP in research
and development, the highest percentage of any country.
 
-- Due to major gas and oil finds, Walter Russell Mead observes, "the
Promised Land, from a natural resource point of view, could be ...
inch for inch the most valuable and energy-rich country anywhere in
the world." These resources enhance Israel's position in the world.
 
-- With Syria and Egypt consumed by internal problems, the existential
threat they once posed to Israel has, for the moment, nearly
disappeared. Thanks to innovative tactics, terror attacks have been
nearly eliminated. The IDF has outstanding human resources and stands
at the forefront of military technologies; and Israeli society has
proven its readiness to fight a protracted conflict. Inbar, a
strategist, concludes that "the power differential between Israel and
its Arab neighbors is continuously growing."
 
-- The Palestinian diplomatic focus that dominated the country's
politics for decades after 1967 has receded, with only 10% of Jewish
Israelis considering negotiations the top priority. Kerry may obsess
over this issue but, in the acerbic words of one politico, "Debating
the peace process to most Israelis is the equivalent of debating the
color of the shirt you will wear when landing on Mars."
 
-- Even the Iranian nuclear issue may be less dire than it appears.
Between the vastly greater destructive power of Israel's nuclear
arsenal and its growing missile defense system, military analyst
Anthony Cordesman predicts that an exchange of nuclear weapons would
leave Israel damaged badly but Iranian civilization destroyed.
"Iranian recovery is not possible in the normal sense of the term."
Maniacal as the Iranian leadership is, will it really risk all?
 
-- Successes of the "boycott, divestment, and sanctions" movement are
pretty meager (Stephen Hawking snubbed the president's invitation! A
United Nations body passed another absurd condemnation). Israel has
diplomatic relations with 156 out of the United Nations' 193 members.
Looking at multiple indices, Inbar finds that, globally, "Israel is
rather well integrated."
 
-- In public opinion surveys in the United States, the world's most
important country and Israel's main ally, Israel regularly beats the
Palestinians by a 4-to-1 ratio. And while universities are indeed
hostile, I ask handwringers this question: Where would you rather be
strong, the U.S. Congress or the campuses? To ask that question is to
answer it.
 
-- Ashkenazi-Sephardi tensions have diminished over time due to a
combination of intermarriage and cultural cross-pollination. The issue
of haredi nonparticipation is finally being addressed.
 
-- Israelis have made impressive cultural contributions, especially to
classical music, leading one critic, David Goldman, to call Israel a
"pocket superpower in the arts."
 
Listen up, anti-Zionists and anti-Semites, Palestinians and Islamists,
extreme right- and left-wingers: You are fighting a losing battle; the
Jewish state is prevailing. As Inbar rightly concludes, "Time seems to
be on Israel's side." Give up and find some other country to torment.

 Jewish state is prevailing
 
il fatto che dobbiate ripeterlo ogni giorno, dimostra che siete voi i
primi a non crederci. Nessuno al mondo si sognerebbe mai di perdere
tempo a scrivere che lo stato francese prevale sui suoi nemici.
Esiste, fine della storia.

 tempo a scrivere che lo stato francese prevale sui suoi nemici.
 
d'altra parte nessuno al mondo ritiene che la Francia debba
scomparire.
ciao, e grazie per la trottata, Ora portami una birra, grazie.

 orpolina come la prendete male
 
 io sono uno solo, e di bomba demografica non ho mai parlato proprio
perchè so che la demografia è l'argomento principe dei fascisti come
te.