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Category Archives: Israel
Can Israel build big, sustainable companies?
Israel is a low-trust society which might make it difficult building up big companies. From Techcrunch: The Israeli start-up ecosystem is a well-oiled investment machine that has been turning out companies for the better part of two decades. The country … Continue reading
Soviet Scientists by Ethnicity as of 1973
Steve Sailer writes: On Unz.com, Anatoly Karlin displays an interesting graph of scientists per capita of over 50 Soviet ethnic groups as of 1973. Not surprisingly, the #1 most scientific ethnicity in the Soviet Union were the Jews and the … Continue reading
Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer
From Steve Sailer in 2005: Fukuyama Responds to Krauthammer: The Israelization of American Foreign Policy. You may recall that prominent neocon Francis “End of History” Fukuyama jumped ship awhile ago and criticized Charles Krauthammer in The National Interest for his … Continue reading
Women In Combat
Martin van Creveld writes: Women’s inferiority to men in respect to physical strength, aerobic capacity, endurance and, above all, robustness, is obvious to all. The price is paid by their male colleagues; when a female trainee in a mixed unit … Continue reading
Can Israel’s ‘Ku Klux Klan’ be stopped?
Last night I was emailed this article from Ami magazine (aimed at Orthodox Jews) on how horrible the KKK is. Every media portrayal of the KKK that I remember painted it as a horrible organization. I don’t share this view. … Continue reading
How Come Israel Gets To Use Remittance Weapon And Trump Can’t?
Peter Brimelow writes: VDARE.com has been discussing the utility of taxing remittances from legal and illegal immigrants back to Mexico for years e.g. National Data | A Supply-Side Solution For Illegal Immigration by Edwin S. Rubenstein, January 26, 2004. So … Continue reading
Larry Summers: Colleges have become hypersensitive to racial prejudice. Why not anti-Semitism?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * PC has told us that it’s ‘racist’ when whites do it, but it’s NOT ‘racist’ when non-whites do it. So, the same logic must apply. It is ‘antisemitic’ when whites do it, but it’s not … Continue reading
BDS
For decades, Israel advocates complained that their opponents were unwilling to fight for their cause through peaceful means. Now we have the growing success of the BDS movement, and the arguments are shifting. Jonathan Tobin writes for Commentary magazine: his … Continue reading
Whom The Gods Want To Destroy
Martin Van Creveld writes: The killing last week by an Israeli soldier of a wounded Palestinian terrorist who was lying helplessly on his back has sent the country into a turmoil. No sooner was the picture published on the Net … Continue reading
How Is Israel So Good At Eavesdropping?
Comments: * BBC is reporting that an Israeli firm was the key player in the unlocking. * Anybody ever notice that Israel’s economy seems to have a comparative advantage at snooping on other country’s phone calls? * The fact that … Continue reading