Uh Andrea, Israel has faced more terrorism than the
palestinians and their economy is thriving, it couldn’t
be a “cultural thing” could it?
I had a bit of an epiphany when I heard the pali spokesman call Romney's comments "racist," and it explained to me a lot of what's going on here in the US as well.
To address the cry of "racism" by the pali when Romney stated that the differences between the pali and Israeli economies is cultural, that is demonstrably the case. First off, there is no such thing as a "pali race." Secondly, if it were a "racial thing," I'm unaware of any suicidal race, at least not one that is born with high explosives to murder others. The simple fact of the matter is that most of Israel was either desert or marsh, not terribly hospitable to life. It was the Zionists that transformed Israel into the agricultural and high tech powerhouse that it is today. Can you imagine where Israel's economy would be today had Israel not been forced to sink so much of its resources (money, but more importantly, PEOPLE conscripted into the military) into defense? And the pails have been kept down, not by Israel, but by the UN and the rest of the arab and muslim world, to be used as cannon fodder against Israel.
And this ties into what's going on in this country. We keep hearing how it's racism and "racial memory" (the leftovers of slavery) that's the cause of so much squalor in the Black community. But that's disprovable by the successes of recent Black immigrants, at least until their children begin to be influenced by the so called "Black culture."
The simple fact is that it's SO compelling to blame your "problems" on race and racism, because that's something you have no control over, so it's not your fault. But if it's culture, then your station in life, or lack thereof, is your own choice, and it's your fault. And most people just don't want to make the hard decisions to change their lives, even though will will improve their lives.
Mark