This really gets old. It’s just a bit more democratic than half of CIS states were 20 years ago.
he only nation in the Middle East that is food-independent, the only one that has a functioning economy that isn’t based on resource extraction, the lowest corruption, the best education system, by far the best research and most modern manufacturing.
This can be shortened to “they are stronger than anybody around”.
All of this was slowly built up over the course of decades as they were being besieged by and had to defend themselves against their aggressive neighbors, who from the first day of Israel’s existence had nothing but genocidal intentions.
As if Israelis were less aggressive and less genocidal.
Israel has issues and not few of them, but one also has to take a step back and look at what this tiny country managed to achieve against all odds.
This is really bullshit. A person may be an idiot or a genius, but a country’s path usually makes sense if you look close enough at conditions.
Say, Israel was created by people from developed European countries. That’s an enormous advantage when your initial pool of elites is not of activists, poets, shepherds, foot soldiers and mountain Robin Hoods, but of engineers and competent military men etc.