Do You Pass the Israel Test? | 5 Minute Video
Would you believe us if we said that the best litmus test of any society’s success is its attitude towards Israel? Well, it’s true. As George Gilder explains, whether a society envies and resents Israel’s success or celebrates and tries to replicate it is indicative of that society’s progress. Countries that “pass” the “Israel Test” tend to rise. Those who don’t tend to sink. So, does your society pass the “Israel Test”? In five minutes, find out.
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Script:
How do you respond to people who excel you in invention, creativity, and wealth? Do you envy them? Do you feel their success somehow diminishes you? Or do you admire what they’ve achieved and try to emulate it?
These questions sum up what I call “The Israel Test.”
In the 1880s, European Jews settled in mandate Palestine and wrought an agricultural miracle in that desolate territory, then sparsely populated by a few score thousand Jews and a couple hundred thousand Arabs.
The Jewish settlers drained malarial swamps, leached salt from the soils, terraced the barren hills, and planted millions of trees. They massively expanded the capacity of the land and enabled it to support a substantial Arab population.
In the two decades between 1921 and 1943, Jews quadrupled the number of enterprises, multiplied the number of jobs by a factor of 10, and increased the level of capital investment a hundredfold. Far from displacing Arabs, they provided the capital for a major expansion of Arab farms and enabled a sevenfold rise in Arab population by 1948, to a level of 1.35 million, the largest in the long history of Palestine. In other words, the Arabs came to what would be soon be the State of Israel because of the Jews.
By comparison, Trans-Jordan, now known as Jordan, with the same geological endowment and four times the land but no Jews was able to sustain a population density only one tenth of the population density of Palestine.
Crucial to Israel’s accomplishments were world leading technological advances in the recovery of water through desalinization, drip irrigation, and sewage recycling.
Over the past fifty years, Israel has increased its population tenfold, its agricultural production sixteen fold and its industrial production fifty-fold while actually reducing net water consumption by ten percent since 1948. This huge expansion of effective water resources enabled the land to support not only more Jews, but also millions more Arabs.
Today the state of Israel with its astonishing achievements in computer science and other high tech fields distills both the genius of the Jews and the misdirected anger of the failed states that surround her.
The great divide in the Middle East is not between Arab and Jew but between admiration of achievement, along with a desire to replicate it, and envy accompanied by violent resentment.
People who admire success, who pass the Israel Test, tend to be wealthy and peaceful. People who resent achievement, who fail the Israel Test, tend to become poor and violent.
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The people that are productive and helpful should be admired and supported. I do admire and support them. But that is not the case with the west countries. They are productive but they consume more than they produce and compensate it with wars and colonization. That is nothing to be admired.
Great video, jews have achieved amazing things in the land of israel, may GOD bless them.
Our world needs the Jewish state of Israel now, more than ever. ❤
Sounds more like a propaganda ad than a legitimate attempt at portraying the history of Israel.
The Hamas hate Israel as much as the Nazis hated the Jews. The Nazis didn’t try to emulate the Jews success, they were jealous and jumped to the conclusion that the Jews were somehow cheating and trying to replace the non Jews and the Christians and other Europeans, and thought the Jews were somehow subhuman, by which means, if the Nazis say that the cripple and dumb are subhuman, then by definition, the Nazis and non Jews are subhuman, but the Nazis twisted the definition of words to the level that fitted their state of emotion and their assumptions or what they were thinking was true, that was far far outside of reality! And it is a huge shame how the antisemitism persists! It had happened throughout Medieval Europe, and in Nazi Germany! We then said never again, only to allow the media to instill such thing once more and get the people to hate the Jews! This is horrifying how the media and the UN are becoming the Nazis and anti Jew and antisemitists! Thomas Jefferson said “If you don’t know your history, you are doomed to repeat it.” But here is a more accurate version of the statement, if you don’t understand your history full well, you are doomed to repeat it. Most people know about the Holocaust but don’t understand it completely or what led to it, and are highly unaware that antisemitism wasn’t anything new then but that it has been an ongoing thing, and thus are prey in being brainwashed to hate the Jews without knowing it. The younger generation aren’t even being taught about the holocaust anymore, as some videos show those conducting survey asking the younger generation and college students if they know what the holocaust is, and most said no! This is alarming, because this could indicate the UN may be planning another holocaust and with depriving the society from such knowledge, they can implement it with much more ease! It is similar case scenario with something else, in China they haven’t been teaching about Mao Zedong and communist era of China anymore for a while, so they can implement communism and dictatorship in China once more, without people being aware what is going on, or what is the fate. The thing is, what we learn in school isn’t all there is to it about history. There are far more to it, and it is up to us to learn as much history as possible and from many sources, so we can learn it accurately and understand well to avoid repeating history.
Weak, boring & juvenile! Best of luck!
I support Israel but this video is digusting, classic PragerU I guess. Saying Israel is surrounded by "failed states" and that that rich and wealthy people tend to support Israel and poor and stupid people support Palestine is just so stupid its laughable,
Muslims of today are no different than those of the 4th century. Barbaric, full of hate, and want to conquer everyone. For the US NOT willing to support Israel, is shameful. Don't see the U.N. helping one bit.. no, their people are HELPING Hamas.
It's amazing how we sit in 7 classrooms on History and hear 40 different testimonies on how things happened.
Too many leaders miserably fail the Israel test in 2024.
I am Gloria fasipe a non jew who has passed the Israel test
Open borders for Israel
Really glad for all hard work and constructive innovation.
The historical ignorance of Israel critics is astounding. One doesn't even need to look at the Bible to know the Jews predate the Arabs in the land by many, many centuries.
I lived at Kibbutz Ein ha Horesh. I am proud that as a young man i experienced this in 1973 . If i was younger I would fight for Israel. Shalom
"We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us." Golda Meir
This should be mandatory in all education areas, especially today in 2024.
Wow! How come no one knows this???
Getting lots of American and allied help tends to make people prosperous in an area the rest of the world demolished on a daily basis. The Arab populations have consistently been treated like garbage for their mere existence based upon stereotypes of terrorism made in response to their colonization, whose success comes almost entirely for the benefit of itself and the negation of the power of its colonized population. Colonies in the past tend to garner the most suppression of native populations when the imperial state or colonists live there in large quantities, which is hilariously obvious in the Gaza border walls, soldier bases, and illegal settlements inside the meager territory they’ve been left with. This video is like that of Britain claiming they were helping India while ignoring that they had their own self interest in place that made all the infrastructure happen at all. It’s hypocrisy of the highest order.
💙Thank you for your video and everything that is in support of Israel and for peace
Sharing this video now thank you so much
Only one Israel
Everybody share and thumbs up this video I know I will👍
🙏Pray for safety all the civilians and people that have been hurt for no reason Here There and around the globe🌎
👍 thank you for this video means a lot to some of us
Let's talk about the Japanese – a people who transformed themselves after a crushing defeat in 1945 by taking all the best parts of their conquerors' culture and melding it with their own, without diminishing themselves in any way. An exemplary lesson right there.
The awful truth! Great video – thanks for posting🎉
PragerU makes great conservative videos…. until they bring up (((the chosen people)))
Israel is the best country on the Middle East. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇲🇺🇲❤️
what a dishonest video and assessment of the situation. Framing jews the standard of morality is one of the most jew moves you could make. Thanks George, you passed the Israel test, but have failed the honesty test.
I love Israel. I'd like to marry a Jewish girl and share in her heritage.
Do you pass the israel test
Jordan is the LG detransitioner
… and then they stole their land! Stop the land theft!
A well crafted argument can only be refuted by a well-crafted counter-argument. The world must recognize the beauty and resilience of Israel and point the hypocrisy of religiously blinded haters.
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Does that mean they don't need upwards of $30 billion in aid from the US anymore? Asking for a friend.
I didn't pass the Israel test. Because I failed to fulfill the first condition of passing the Israel test:
To not have a brain.