The Israel TestIsrael is the crucial battlefield for Capitalism and Freedom in our time. George Gilder's global best-seller "Wealth and Poverty" made the moral case for capitalism. Now Gilder makes the case for Israel, portraying a conflict of barbarism and envy against civilization and creativity. Gilder reveals Israel as a leader of human civilization, technological progress, and scientific advance. Tiny Israel stands behind only the United States in its contributions to the hi-tech economy. Israel has become the world's paramount example of the blessings of freedom. Hatred of Israel, like anti-Semitism through history, arises from resentment of Jewish success. Rooted in a Marxist zero-sum-game theory of economics, this vision has fueled the anti-Semitic rantings of Hitler, Arafat, Osama, and history's other notorious Jew haters. Faced with a contest between murderous regimes sustained by envy and Nazi ideology, and a free, prosperous, and capitalist, Israel--whose side are you on? |
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... gaps " everywhere discernible between different groups : gaps of income , power , achievement , and status . Against ... rich , they say . But look at the gap be- tween its luxuries and Palestinian privation . Look at the gap between ...
... gaps " everywhere discernible between different groups : gaps of income , power , achievement , and status . Against ... rich , they say . But look at the gap be- tween its luxuries and Palestinian privation . Look at the gap between ...
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... gaps between rich and poor is the signature of a deep and persistent Marxism that is intrinsically hostile to the wealth - producing work of Jews in the world . At the heart of the UN's case against Israel is the UN's focus on gaps ...
... gaps between rich and poor is the signature of a deep and persistent Marxism that is intrinsically hostile to the wealth - producing work of Jews in the world . At the heart of the UN's case against Israel is the UN's focus on gaps ...
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... of capitalist outcomes . Are entrepreneurs , in Israel and around the world , chiefly givers and benefactors , or are they predators and exploiters ? Should policy focus on foster- ing economic growth for all or on closing gaps between rich ...
... of capitalist outcomes . Are entrepreneurs , in Israel and around the world , chiefly givers and benefactors , or are they predators and exploiters ? Should policy focus on foster- ing economic growth for all or on closing gaps between rich ...
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