re: #13 cinesimon

No not because of truthiness.

Because the politics are different here than they are in Israel. Israel’s governance, the combination of Netenyahu and Stanley Fischer (who?), have steered Israel through a world economic minefield and brought the country through relatively unscathed by the crash of 2008 and the present European difficulties. They have fostered a culture of rapid innovation, and a blooming of scientific and technological advances that will probably have a very positive effect on the lives of every person on this planet—or could have such an effect. Israel has moved from an emerging economy to a developed economy, not without problems (which can be solved), and are leaders in the fields of alternative energy, planetary paradigm shifts with regards to economic development, clean water, food production in the most environmentally unfriendly conditions, food production in general, and medicine. The country is vital in research and development for new technologies—having branches of Intel (the largest employer), and impressing Warren Buffett enough to invest heavily. This is all from a country that is essentially the size of one large US city.

More often than not the ‘shift to the right’ is an excuse for people to trot out The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—for its truthiness.

Israel has accomplished all of this, including producing Nobel winners and world class universities, despite a ceaseless existential threat that threatens the country militarily, culturally, and economically.

That is what has been happening in the years that Netenyahu has been both Finance Minister and Prime Minister.

It’s been in all the papers, sort of. I don’t see how a person could miss it.

One should support Israel because, selfishly, one is going to need an Israeli innovation at some point in their life—and they will be more grateful for this innovation than they are for oil. These reasons are sufficient.

For Jews, there are other reasons to support Israel, and need not concern anyone else, unless anyone else is more interested in spreading the seeds of the Protocols.