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...