Credit to the author, Allister Heath of the Telegraph. An excellent article by Allister Heath, a British journalist for the Daily Telegraph:
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There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is. They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.
A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.
Israel has no oil.
No special natural resources.
A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city.
They are surrounded by enemies.
Hated in the United Nations.
Targeted by terror.
Condemned by celebrities.
Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.
And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine.
In security.
In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality.
In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.
The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand. They assume it must be cheating. It must be American AID must be foreign LOBBYING. IT must be oppression. It must be theft. It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power. It must be blackmail. Because heaven forbid it’s something else. Heaven forbid it’s real. Heaven forbid it’s earned. Or worse, destined.
The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength. That’s not normal. It’s not Political.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years. There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence. And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.
Israel doesn’t make sense. Unless you believe in something beyond the math. This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all. Maybe He’s still in the story. Maybe history isn’t random. Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word. Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand. Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes.
Your moral compass has to reset.
Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse.
You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire.
You’re witnessing the beginning of something.
They smear it. And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises. And He’s keeping them still.
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And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
(Amos 9:14-15 KJV)
@Rajk999 saidIt's nothing to do with God.
Credit to the author, Allister Heath of the Telegraph. An excellent article by Allister Heath, a British journalist for the Daily Telegraph:
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There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is. They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and ...[text shortened]... t God keeps His promises. And He’s keeping them still.
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As Nietzsche remarks, danger is a quickening stimulus. Living under constant existential threat makes one pay attention. Whereas, comfort and safety make one lazy and complacent, easy prey to decadence and rot from within.
It also helps that the USA supplies Israel with arms superior to those of Israel's enemies.
@moonbus saidNietzsche ? Ok, lets see Mark Twain [1899]:
It's nothing to do with God.
As Nietzsche remarks, danger is a quickening stimulus. Living under constant existential threat makes one pay attention. Whereas, comfort and safety make one lazy and complacent, easy prey to decadence and rot from within.
It also helps that the USA supplies Israel with arms superior to those of Israel's enemies.
“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way.
Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it.
The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished.
The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.
All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains.
What is the secret of his immortality?”
A rhetorical question. The answer is God. As for Nietzsche's conclusions, the Jews did not live under constant threat. The American Jews live in comfort and safety and yet they have excelled and become a powerful lobby in the US [and many parts of the world] despite their small size.
Palestinians are living under constant threat and look at where they are now, despite aid, grants, and generous assistance totalling around a billion US$$ annually. They have not progressed.
Not everything is about US aid. Jews lived all over the world without US aid prior to 1945 and they did well.
@Rajk999 saidThey're clever. Just look at what percentage of world's chess champions have Ashkenazi genes in their blood.
Nietzsche ? Ok, lets see Mark Twain [1899]:
[i]“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way.
Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his comme ...[text shortened]... hing is about US aid. Jews lived all over the world without US aid prior to 1945 and they did well.
@moonbus saidNobel prizes as well. From Google:
They're clever. Just look at what percentage of world's chess champions have Ashkenazi blood in their genes.
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Jews and people of Jewish descent receive Nobel Prizes at a rate far exceeding their proportion of the world's population, with at least 22% of all individual laureates being Jewish, according to Wikipedia's list of Jewish Nobel laureates. This is approximately 110 times their global population share, as they make up about 0.2% of the world's population.
Key Statistics
Overall Percentage: Jews and people of Jewish descent constitute roughly 22% of all Nobel Prize and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureates.
Population vs. Laureates: This figure is significantly higher than their share of the world's population, which is around 0.2%.
Overrepresentation: This overrepresentation suggests a disproportionate impact in various scientific and cultural fields recognized by the Nobel Prize.
Breakdown by Field (Examples)
The percentage of Jewish laureates can vary by specific fields.
Economics: Around 41%.
Medicine: Around 28%.
Physics: Around 26%.
Chemistry: Around 19%.
Literature: Around 13%.
Peace: Around 9%.
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Clever alone wont explain it. Neither does US Aid.
@Rajk999
Some people have a certain kind of analytical skill in spades: they see strategic leverage-points on the chess board or in the financial system and occupy them. It's all in the frontal lobes = genetics, iterative over generations. Like some people have sickle-cell anemia or natural resistance to plague and HIV. Nothing to do with God.
I'll tell you one thing I admire about the Jews: they have an unmatched sense of humor and self-castigating irony. Mel Brooks springs to mind: 'The Jews! The Jews! They're so poor, they have only one God !!' (Stand-Up Philosopher in History of the World, Part I.)
@moonbus saidOn an individual level its easy to say its nothing to do with God because there are reasons why certain things happen. Like how there is like a 0.1% divorce rate among Jews. This leads to a host of advantags one of which is a stable family life. So every thing has a good underlying reason.
@Rajk999
Some people have a certain kind of analytical skill in spades: they see strategic leverage-points on the chess board or in the financial system and occupy them. It's all in the frontal lobes = genetics, iterative over generations. Like some people have sickle-cell anemia or natural resistance to plague and HIV. Nothing to do with God.
I'll tell you one thing I ...[text shortened]... e so poor, they have only one God !!' (Stand-Up Philosopher in History of the World, Part I.)
This one is pretty hard to explain though... The prophecies in the bible, one of which I quoted earlier... that defies explanation.
@Rajk999 saidDefy explanation? Not at all. They wrote the prophesy, they made it come true. No divine intervention required, only tenacity.
On an individual level its easy to say its nothing to do with God because there are reasons why certain things happen. Like how there is like a 0.1% divorce rate among Jews. This leads to a host of advantags one of which is a stable family life. So every thing has a good underlying reason.
This one is pretty hard to explain though... The prophecies in the bible, one of which I quoted earlier... that defies explanation.
@moonbus saidHere are some of the prophecies of the top of my head:
Defy explanation? Not at all. They wrote the prophesy, they made it come true. No divine intervention required, only tenacity.
1. The Jews will be over thrown and chased out of Israel
2. They will be scattered all over the world
3. They will be abused and killed
4. They will return to the land of Israel
5. They will develop and build and prosper, never to be removed.
I can only see them 'making it come true' in #5. All others required divine intervention.
@moonbus saidAn interesting prophecy here. People will want the Jews wiped off the map... From the Roman Emperor Julian, to Hitler to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Surely you dont believe that the Jews made it come true. The prophecy even lists the nations that will be involved and they are all the surrounding Arab states.
Defy explanation? Not at all. They wrote the prophesy, they made it come true. No divine intervention required, only tenacity.
Look! Your enemies are in revolt, and those who hate you are rebelling. They are making secret plans against your people; they are plotting against those you protect. "Come," they say, "let us destroy their nation, so that Israel will be forgotten forever."
They agree on their plan and form an alliance against you: the people of Edom and the Ishmaelites; the people of Moab and the Hagrites; the people of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, and of Philistia and Tyre. Assyria has also joined them as a strong ally of the Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Lot. (Psa 83:2-8 GNB)
@Rajk999 saidDanger is a quickening stimulus. As someone already said ....
An interesting prophecy here. People will want the Jews wiped off the map... From the Roman Emperor Julian, to Hitler to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Surely you dont believe that the Jews made it come true. The prophecy even lists the nations that will be involved and they are all the surrounding Arab states.
Look! Your enemies are in revolt, and those who hate you are reb ...[text shortened]... hem as a strong ally of the Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Lot. (Psa 83:2-8 GNB)
