David's Harp / Can a patch of desert bring down Israel's economy?

Netanyahu is on his way to a massive election victory but still feels compelled to kowtow to right-wing voters no matter what the cost to the country’s international standing.

By David Rosenberg | 14:38 11.12.12 |

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Maybe it won’t be the tycoons’ debts, or the pauperization of the Israeli middle class, or the failure of the educational system that will bring down the Israeli economy. Maybe it will be a patch of desert between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim.

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- By Vittorio Antonio
- 13 Dec 2012
- 03:19AM
The Arab Spring is no gift to Israel as the author suggests. The people of the Arab and Muslim world apart from their governments do not look kindly on either Israel or the U.S. The Arab Spring is far from over. The intervention of the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan has eroded whatever trust the Muslim world has toward the Western world, a world bent on maintaining colonial style relationships with the rest of humanity. The financial crisis in the West has born down on the the majority of its citizens to carry the burden of a small minority of leaders in corporate, finance, and arms manufacturing-distribution, whose policies are fraught with danger to families and to the environment. This suggests that even in the Western world governments are not standing on solid ground as the majority realizes that they have been burdened with the consequences of corrupt policies. Change is a fickle reality never broadcasting in advance what is to come and is full of frequent unpleasant surprises.
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  - By potobac
  - 13 Dec 2012
  - 02:23PM
  The ME Moslem community has an unfortunate history with Europeans who invade, conquer and dominate them (cf the 19th century). They have earned the right to hate invaders who take their land and subjugate them.
  
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