payments from the Germans undder the agreement signed with Germany under Chancellor Adenuer(refugee from the Nazis like Dietriech, Dr..Schrodinger Austrian Nobel Physicist,Dr.Gerhard Herzberg another Nobel winner in Physics)Those reparations amounted to less then 2 billions per year since 1953,Approx. 100 billion Dollars were received between 1953 an now.Look what we build with it.A democratic country with a standard of living close to the average Western Europe.We have a 3rd largest software industry in the world. Microsoft,IBM,Intel,,Google etc all established research centers in Israel.We have the 3rd largest high technology industry in the world.We have a universal Health care systems superior to the US Health System.We have one of the largset pharmaceutical company in the world. In a short span since 1948 we grew in the sands and swamps of Israel most modern agriculture,built a modern industry and have Nobels in science,economics,literature. Compare it to Saudis,Iraq,Iran Oil $.. |
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