Damn Jews...Its an international conspiracy
 

Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world chess champions, 27 percent of the Nobel physics laureates and 31 percent of the medicine laureates.


Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, but 21 percent of the Ivy League student bodies, 26 percent of the Kennedy Center honorees, 37 percent of the Academy Award-winning directors, 38 percent of those on a recent Business Week list of leading philanthropists, 51 percent of the Pulitzer Prize winners for nonfiction.


In his book, ?The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement,? Steven L. Pease lists some of the explanations people have given for this record of achievement. The Jewish faith encourages a belief in progress and personal accountability. It is learning-based, not rite-based.


Most Jews gave up or were forced to give up farming in the Middle Ages; their descendants have been living off of their wits ever since. They have often migrated, with a migrant?s ambition and drive. They have congregated around global crossroads and have benefited from the creative tension endemic in such places.


No single explanation can account for the record of Jewish achievement. The odd thing is that Israel has not traditionally been strongest where the Jews in the Diaspora were strongest. Instead of research and commerce, Israelis were forced to devote their energies to fighting and politics.


Milton Friedman used to joke that Israel disproved every Jewish stereotype. People used to think Jews were good cooks, good economic managers and bad soldiers; Israel proved them wrong.


But that has changed. Benjamin Netanyahu?s economic reforms, the arrival of a million Russian immigrants and the stagnation of the peace process have produced a historic shift. The most resourceful Israelis are going into technology and commerce, not politics. This has had a desultory effect on the nation?s public life, but an invigorating one on its economy.


Tel Aviv has become one of the world?s foremost entrepreneurial hot spots. Israel has more high-tech start-ups per capita than any other nation on earth, by far. It leads the world in civilian research-and-development spending per capita. It ranks second behind the U.S. in the number of companies listed on the Nasdaq. Israel, with seven million people, attracts as much venture capital as France and Germany combined.


As Dan Senor and Saul Singer write in ?Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel?s Economic Miracle,? Israel now has a classic innovation cluster, a place where tech obsessives work in close proximity and feed off each other?s ideas.


Because of the strength of the economy, Israel has weathered the global recession reasonably well. The government did not have to bail out its banks or set off an explosion in short-term spending. Instead, it used the crisis to solidify the economy?s long-term future by investing in research and development and infrastructure, raising some consumption taxes, promising to cut other taxes in the medium to long term. Analysts at Barclays write that Israel is ?the strongest recovery story? in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.


Israel?s technological success is the fruition of the Zionist dream. The country was not founded so stray settlers could sit among thousands of angry Palestinians in Hebron. It was founded so Jews would have a safe place to come together and create things for the world.


This shift in the Israeli identity has long-term implications. Netanyahu preaches the optimistic view: that Israel will become the Hong Kong of the Middle East, with economic benefits spilling over into the Arab world. And, in fact, there are strands of evidence to support that view in places like the West Bank and Jordan.


But it?s more likely that Israel?s economic leap forward will widen the gap between it and its neighbors. All the countries in the region talk about encouraging innovation. Some oil-rich states spend billions trying to build science centers. But places like Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv are created by a confluence of cultural forces, not money. The surrounding nations do not have the tradition of free intellectual exchange and technical creativity.


For example, between 1980 and 2000, Egyptians registered 77 patents in the U.S. Saudis registered 171. Israelis registered 7,652.


The tech boom also creates a new vulnerability. As Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic has argued, these innovators are the most mobile people on earth. To destroy Israel?s economy, Iran doesn?t actually have to lob a nuclear weapon into the country. It just has to foment enough instability so the entrepreneurs decide they had better move to Palo Alto, where many of them already have contacts and homes. American Jews used to keep a foothold in Israel in case things got bad here. Now Israelis keep a foothold in the U.S.


During a decade of grim foreboding, Israel has become an astonishing success story, but also a highly mobile one.

JEWWWSS ARRGGGHH!

amirite guys?

"For example, between 1980 and 2000, Egyptians registered 77 patents in the U.S. Saudis registered 171. Israelis registered 7,652."

maybe its because every jew has a uncle thats a patent lawyer

but all jokes aside the numbers dont lie and the jew hate is only because so many are successful

Nice post. :)

column writen by david brooks, who is jewish.

I live on the outskirts of Riverdale, NY the largest Jewish area in the Bronx. My only issue is they close the Bagel shops they own on Saturdays. Damn I love their Bagels. :)

when a culture places value on education and hard work, that culture usually does well.

they certainly have brainpower:thumbsup

Montreal bagels and you won't go back...

I agree....made by your Montreal Jews....

Oy vey, I'm all verklempt.

hmmm good to know, so far the best Bagels I have tasted were from "My Three Sons Bagel Cafe" located in Garden City, NY (Italian owned) When I was dating my wife she lived near this place...I sure looked forward to breakfast on the weekends.

I also like to eat Jewish treats...Jelly Rings, Halava, Marshmellow Twists, black and white cookies, and Chocolate Egg Creams.

Vancouver....Sollys....hot dogs wrapped in bagel....

My good friend is a Jew......

Really. Have you ever met a negro?

Funny how actors move to Hollywood and within a year or two many of them are claiming they are "half Jewish" or something like that. Those people move here and realize really fast where the power lies :thumbsup I have heard of people using Jewish names on their scripts so they can trick someone in to buying it. LOL Also there is no shortage of women in this town who are converting to the tribe even if they are not dating/married to a Jewish man.

Jewish people help each other out like no other race/religion on Earth. I respect that and do not blame them one bit. :2 cents: Most of the people I have done biz with in the last 10 years have been Jewish and every one of them have been good to me.

So wait - pro Jew/anti Jew? I couldn;t tell there.

YES:thumbsup

Time to buy that shotgun I guess...

Nah, get something good....an Uzi.lol

So what you're saying is wearing your hat sideways, your pants down around your knees like you shit yourself and speaking nonsense is bad for a culture?

coles notes version: the jews are winning...

Mostly whining....but then again, maybe if you whine, you win.

...You know reading all those conspiracy books is bad for you, right?

"Someone or another is trying to control us all and has almost succeeded" to which the obvious retort is "So what you gonna do about it?" If you're missing an answer then you'd best see to your own since you can't do baked shit even if it was all true. Otherwise you'd get yourself an ulcer and a nice paranoia...:2 cents:

Good news for us jews.

So what did the Nanaimo Jews invent.....bars?

It's only 0.2 percent of the world population? Hmm... That's smaller than I thought.

That would mean 99.8% of the people are not Jews.

You are obviously not a Jewish mathematician.

Jewish people are very smart and they know how to do Biz the right way :)

Stereotype....

probably the most interesting thread on GFY recently.
 

well done Weekly:thumbsup
what is the % of jews in adult? being one myself, and having met quite a few, I guess it is well above their proportion in the total population...

exactly!

weekly himself is as poor as fiel mouse,
plus,
the next time you post something, give attributes to the author, will ya?

As for Jews helping each other....

weekly is Jewish, I am Jewish and
FUCK HIM!

I'm Polish :)

there is no greater threat to mediocrity than excellence

< Young Money Young Shekels yo'

Thanks for sharing. :D

when someone controls the media you dont go to the media to find out about them

fail

israel = terrorist state
israel = the reason for the US's problems

so if you guys want to wait around clapping for the jews while you pump israel full of aid, veto the numerous (and near-unanimous) UN resolutions against them, sit by while they illegally build settlements, attacks US ships and kill US soldiers and demand no investigation all the while getting no backlash themselves and directing it all at the US

damn how the US has turned into israels little bitch, what a shame

please make the distinction between Israel/Israelis and the Jews... I think that the political debate about Israel's actions has nothing to do with achievements (academic, cultural, financial, etc..) of people from Jewish community or from Jewish-influenced upbringing across the world.
Israel may be the "Jewish State" but it does not represent the "Jewish Collective". in fact, most of the time Israel sucks at helping/promoting the jews in the world. Israel is about Israelis, Judaism is about a concept (not necessarily a religion) people from many countries share, either by birth or association.
Peace be on you.

No mention that 90% of the adult industry is run by us chosen ones? ;)

Sure Serge...you crack me up with your obsessions...btw, I accept my poverty now. As for attribution, it was sent to my be a very good friend. You're the genius, perhaps you might guess his religious affiliation .

I gotta agree. Well written

The far right wing wants to see the Temple Mount rebuilt. This is the only reason Israel has support from the US. The Bible says that the third building of the temple will be the catalyst for armageddon. Interestingly enough, there are Muslim shrines in the way of rebuilding it.

But yes, if we cut off Israel, we instantly end the terror threat against the US. I would say that Americans need to wake up, but the story will never be reported from this angle in the mainstream media or even on any cable TV show no matter how obscure the channel.

And what this has in common with the thread? :)

the mechanism by which a society functions is it culture. some societies function at a higher level than other.

And some just need more grease on the wheels

I have two of those bastards taking me to dinner tonight.

i dont like bagels

i prefer matzah ball soup and gefilte fish

Gefilte fish has to be the most tasteless fish in the world.

I _might_ guess that, but I'll never figure out your grammar.

What exactly did you mean by:
" it was sent to my be a very good friend."

What does it mean in English?

Go along with the plan or get called a Anti-Semite.