Israel's ‘doom’ could also be Europe's

Jewish World Review ^ | May 12, 2008 | Mark Steyn

[Squidpup]

Almost everywhere I went last week — TV, radio, speeches — I was asked about the 60th anniversary of the Israeli state. I don't recall being asked about Israel quite so much on its 50th anniversary, which, as a general rule, is a much bigger deal than the 60th. But these days friends and enemies alike smell weakness at the heart of the Zionist Entity.

Assuming Iranian President Ahmadinejad's apocalyptic fancies don't come to pass, Israel will surely make it to its 70th birthday. But a lot of folks don't fancy its prospects for its 80th and beyond. See the Atlantic Monthly cover story: "Is Israel Finished?" Also the cover story in Canada's leading news magazine, Maclean's, which dispenses with the question mark: "Why Israel Can't Survive."

Why? By most measures, the Jewish state is a great success story. The modern Middle East is the misbegotten progeny of the British and French colonial map makers of 1922. All the nation states in that neck of the woods date back a mere 60 or 70 years — Iraq to the Thirties, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel to the Forties. The only difference is that Israel has made a go of it.

[unkus]

Israel will hit Iran before the election in the United States. This will scare America away from Obama.They will not allow Iran to obtain Nuclear Weapons. No matter what happens, we are in deep trouble and had better face that fact. This is the quiet before the storm.

[Cicero]

Good column.

Israel badly needs to throw Olmert out of office. Soon.

[buccaneer81]

Israel has built a modern economy with a GDP per capita just shy of $30,000 — and within striking distance of the European Union average. If you object that that's because it's uniquely blessed by Uncle Sam, well, for the past 30 years the second-largest recipient of U.S. aid has been Egypt: their GDP per capita is $5,000, and America has nothing to show for its investment other than one-time pilot Mohamed Atta coming at you through the office window.

What a great line! And the truth!

[Reddy]

bookmark for future read

[cowdog77]

“Egypt.......... and America has nothing to show for its investment other than one-time pilot Mohamed Atta coming at you through the office window.”
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Bears repeating

[onedoug]

And ours.