The Middle East without Israel

The American Thinker ^ | Jan. 2, 2004 | Ed Lasky

[Kitten Festival]

The January/February issue of Foreign Policy magazine has an insightful article by Josef Joffe, the publisher and editor of Die Zeit and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution titled " A World Without Israel." While advocates for Israel often point out the tremendous technological, medical and agricultural advances Israel has produced (including those by this year's Nobel Prize winners in medicine) which have benefited so many people around the world, this intriguing article constructs a counter-factual history of the Middle East which would exist without Israel. Since there are a surprising and distressing number of people who blame the Arab world's woes on Israel (and hence try to link Israel with the spread of terrorism), this article taps into the zest that some historians have for imaging various scenarios. Joffe focuses on 5 key areas and the impact that the elimination or still-borne birth of Israel would have had in the region.

[Kitten Festival]

A great read about a very curious idea out there.

[Ginifer]

Thx for the post. It is a good article and I'd like to read the rest when it is available.

I thought this line: The Arabs would hate and envy the West regardless of Israel.

Cut right to the chase, they'd hate us no matter what because we are not them and never will be.

[secretagent]

It doesn't come up for my browser. Could you post the whole article?

[fish hawk]

Forever unrest in the Mid East. Take Israel out of the equation and the Arabs will eat each other. After all, they are the religion of hate, doesn't matter who.