Palestinians Care More about Higher Living Standards Than about Ending the Occupation
And they’re more concerned with their own rulers’ violations of their rights than Israel’s.
November 1, 2021
Measuring Israel’s Natural Abundance
Resources worth billions.
The book of Deuteronomy described the promised land as one “of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; . . . a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.” In modern times, it has seemed more like a land conspicuously lacking in the fossil fuels that have made so many nearby countries rich. A recent government-sponsored study has taken a different approach, trying to calculate the monetary value of Israel’s natural resources. Sue Surkes explains the problems involved in performing such a calculation, and how a team of scientists tried to solve it:
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Palestinian Terrorism, the Video Game
The joystick intifada.
Measuring Israel’s Natural Abundance
Resources worth billions.
To Survive, the Jewish People Need the Jewish Religion
There is no continuity without the commandments.
The Man Collecting and Preserving the Everyday Objects of East European Jewry
Arthur Kurzweil’s 4,000 dreidels.