> Israel, Points to
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> Israel
> Geography:
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> Israel is only 1/6 of 1% of the landmass
of the Middle East.
> Israel is roughly half the size of Lake Michigan.
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> The Sea of Galilee, at 695 ft. below sea level, is
> the lowest freshwater lake in the world.
> The Dead Sea is the lowest surface point on earth,
> at about 1,373 feet below sea level.
> Israel is the only nation in the world that entered
> the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees.
> Jericho is the oldest continuously inhabited town in the world.>
> The Mount of Olives in Jerusalem is the oldest, continually
> used cemetery in the world.
> Demographics: Israel's population is half the size of Metro New York City.
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> Israel has only 2% of the population of the Middle East.
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> Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees per capita in the world.
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> Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other
> nation in the world - by a large margin.
> > Israel has the highest number of scientists and technicians per
> capita in the world - by a large margin.
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> Israel has the highest number of engineers per capita in the world.
> Israel has the highest number of PhD's per capita in the world.
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> Israel has the highest number of physicians per capita in the world.
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> > Israel has the largest percentage of its workforce employed in
> technical professions in the world.
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> Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation in the world, per capita.
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> Israel is the only country in the Middle East where the
> Christian
> population has grown over the last 50 years.
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> Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians,
> Muslims and Jews are all free to vote.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where
> women enjoy full political rights.
Economics: Israel has the largest number of startup companies
> per capita in the world.
> Israel is the world's largest wholesale diamond center,
> finally surpassing Antwerp in the 1970's.
> Most of the cut & polished diamonds in the world
> come from Israel.
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> Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed
> companies outside of the US and Canada.
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> Israel was the first country to have a free trade
> agreement with the United States.
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> Apart from the Silicon Valley, Israel has the highest
> concentration of hi-tech companies in the world.
> The cell phone was developed in Israel at
> Motorola's largest development center.
> The Voice Mail technology was developed in Israel.
> In the early 80's,
> IBM chose an Israeli-designed computer chip as the brains
> for its first personal computers.
> The first anti-virus software for computers was
> developed in Israel in 1979.
> Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were
> developed in Israel by Microsoft.
> Both the Pentium-4 and Centrino processors were
> entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel.
> The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel
> at Intel.
> Israel has the highest number of home computers per
> capita in the world.
> The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ
> was developed in 1996 by 4 young Israelis.
> Israel was the first Middle Eastern country to launch a
> satellite,the Ofek 1, on September 19, 1988.
> Culture:
> Hebrew is the only case of a dead national language being>
> revived i n all of world history.
> Hebrew had not been spoken as a native tongue by anyone
> for centuries.
> Today it is the native tongue of millions of people.
> Israel has more museums per capita than any other nation
> in the world.
> Israel has more orchestras per capita than any other
> nation in the world.
> Israel publishes more books per capita than any other
> nation in the world.
> Israel publishes more books translated from other languages
> than any other nation in the world.
> Israel reads more books per capita than any other nation in the
> world.
> The most independent and free Arabic press in the Middle East is in
> Israel.
> Military/Security:
> Israel has the largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside of the US.
> Israel has the world's most impenetrable airline security.
> Israel spends more money per capita on its own protection than
> any country in the world.
> Other: Israel's dairy cows are the most productive dairy cows in the
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> They average 25,432 pounds of milk per cow per year,
> compared to just 18,747 pounds from American cows; 17,085 from
> Canadian cows; 3,778 from European Union cows; 10,207 from Australian cows; and 6,600 from Chinese cows.
> Israel has more in-vitro fertilization per capita than anywhere
> in the world, and it's free.
> Israelis, per capita, are the world's biggest consumers of fruits and
> vegetables.
> Of the 175 UN Security Council resolutions passed before
> 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.
> Of the 690 UN General Assembly resolutions voted on after
> 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
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> Question:
> With Israel being among our strongest, if not the only allies in the
middle east, why does our Commander in Chief do everything in his power
> to undermine and destroy Israel?
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