Posted on 07/30/2012 4:57:19 AM PDT by upchuck
[Edited for excerpt]
Israel's economic success compared to its Palestinian neighbours was due in part to "the hand of providence", Mitt Romney told a $25,000-a-head fundraising event in Jerusalem on Monday.
He cited a climate of innovation, the Jewish history of thriving in adversity and the "hand of providence".
Romney drew a comparison between Israel's economic success and the Palestinians'. "As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000 dollars, and compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality," he said.
In fact, according to the World Bank, Israel had a per capita gross domestic product of about $31,000 in 2011, while the West Bank and Gaza had a per capita GDP of just over $1,500.
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat condemned Romney's comments. "What is this man doing here? Yesterday, he destroyed negotiations by saying Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and today he is saying Israeli culture is more advanced than Palestinian culture. Isn't this racism? Israelis and Palestinians have a conflict, but they are people, they are equal, it is not a better culture or advanced culture.
"It's Israeli occupiers and Palestinians under occupation, and that's why Palestinians cannot realise their potential," he said.
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>> The pedophile dead guy was also a pirate, a warlord, a
>> mass murderer, a torturer, a rapist, a polygamist, an
>> adulterer, a slave owner, a slave trader, a Jew hater, a
>> truce-breaker, a liar, a thief, an unspeakably cruel
>> tyrant, and overall genocidal savage.
>
> Are you saying worshiping a monster could effect how well a
> culture does? That there’s some kind of subtle connection
> between total evil and failure?
:)
Yep, I think there’s a connection.
> Oh, and next time don’t hold back - tell us how you
> really feel...
While I do truly despise the pedophilic polygamist blood-crazed fiend Mohammed, and those are my personal feelings for him and his execrable death cult, the long list of his crimes is recorded for us in the Moslems’ own history of him.
Oh, great. . not denying the ‘Providential’; but this sounds, only a step away, from Obama’s road to; and bridge over. Or, so could be construed.
“and today he is saying Israeli culture is more advanced than Palestinian culture. Isn’t this racism?”
No, it’s not racism because sadly, arabs and Israeli Jewish folk are all but genetically identical.
It is, however, a testiment to good vs. evil.
Exactly what I wrote.
Willard never mentioned God...
I just wondered what he meant by “providence”
Never mind...
I’ll just go on his own religious views of “providence”
which of course differ greatly from the Biblical view...
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