MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
HOW ISRAEL SAVED MANKIND BY INVENTING PITTA BREAD
Did you know that
>> Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees per capita in the world!
>> Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation!
>> Israel has the highest number of scientists and technicians per capita in the world!
>> Israel has the highest number of engineers per capita in the world!
>> Most of the cut and polished diamonds in the world come from Israel!
>> The cell phone was developed in Israel at Motorola's largest development center.
etc etc etc., ad nauseam
RESPONSE:
Thanx for that. Virtually all the ‘hasbara’ propaganda writers on the web constantly shove these skewed figures at the world whilst failing to appreciate that as Israel has a population of just 7 million out of a global population of 7 billion, all the per capita stats are quite meaningless.
As for inventions - they didn’t invent the world, electricity, the motor car, the bicycle, the internal combustion engine, the jet engine, the aeroplane, the tank, the biro, the transistor, the computer, DOS operating system, the Mac, the Ipod, television, radio, the LCD screen, fluorescent lamp, printing, antibiotics, antifungals, morphine, insulin, the artificial hip, the heart transplant, yogurt, vitamins, cornflakes, jazz, surrealism, classical music, the Dutch Masters, the steam engine, the diesel engine, the electric car, the solar system, the train, the hovercraft, peanut butter, the watch, Pasteurisation of milk, Mercedes cars, Rolls Royce, Microsoft, email, Google, Twitter, social networking, artificial fibres, the atomic bomb, nuclear fission .... and all the other essential discoveries and tools of modern society including
propaganda.
BUT they did invent the UZI machine gun that has successfully killed many around the world. AND yes they do polish diamonds and re-export them thanks to a generous gesture by the late Sir Ernest Oppenheimer.
AND they regularly export cluster bombs to regimes worldwide.
You get the drift? If Britain, or Germany for instance wanted to compile a list of inventions and achievements, it would be a hell of a lot longer than the Israeli one. But they don't compile these idiot lists because it's infantile. Yet the internet jerks keep posting them - and manage to increase animosity in proportion to their number and frequency. Israel's problem is still a huge inferiority complex, despite its achievements and its killings. It has yet to get
the hang of effective propaganda or essential PR. That is partly the reason why it is considered a rogue state by an increasing number of countries. That and its 'lists' of how its products and people have saved mankind.
Oh, and on a per capita basis, it has more corruption in its political class than any other claimed democracy anywhere. And the only secret, undeclared, nuclear weapons arsenal in the world. Brilliant!
Comments
It will be interesting to see if anyone responds. In case they do, here's a little counter-hasbara to mull over:
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The true story of how western Europe's poorest nation created our world & everything in it.
by EmmaZahn on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 3:51pm
Pita, the bread that saved the world, was only part of the story.
Israel invented the chick-pea, and, more importantly, the practice of deep frying formed balls of cooked chick peas so that vegetarians could have the artery clogging benefits of FALAFEL!
Take that, George Washington Carver...
by jollyroger on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 3:56pm
And I believe that by inventing post-mortem house demolition, they may be credited with perfecting collective punishment, although admittedly, for the practice of collective punishment iself, they must, in fairness, cede pride of authorship to their mentors, the names of whom I am forbidden by Godwin's Law to adduce.
by jollyroger on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:01pm