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peace initiatives followed by war

Peace Now movement

peace process

Begin-Sadat talks

Carter administration

Clinton administration

illusion of

Olmert-Abbas talks

pre-1967 borders, acceptance of

successful, long-term strategy for

Pekeris, Chaim

Peres, Shimon

Petah Tivka

Philo of Alexandria

Pipes, Daniel

PKK

Planck, Max

Pliskin, Zelig

PLO

Poland

Polanyi, Michael

politics, zero-sum outcomes in

popular sovereignty, limits of

Porter, Michael

positive-sum games

poverty, causes underlying

Power, Samantha

Prager, Dennis

Prebisch, Raúl

property rights

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph

al-Qaida

quantum theory

Rabin, Yitzhak

racialist self-determination

Rambam medical center

Rashi

rational choice theory

rationality

religion and

of science

Rational Optimist , The (Ridley)

Ratz, Laszlo

Rauff, Walther

Reagan, Ronald

Religious Right

Reuveny, Rafael

Revolt of the Masses , The (Ortega y Gasset)

Rice, Condoleezza

Rice, Susan

Ridley, Matt

Roberts, Edward B.

Rockefeller, David

Rommel, Erwin

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rosen, Walter

Ross, Dennis

Rothschild family

Russian Revolution

Rust, Bernhard

Rutenberg, Pinchas

Rutherford, Ernest

Sadat, Anwar

Said, Edward

Saifun

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus

Sandisk

Sarbanes Oxley law

Schor, Esther

Schrödinger, Erwin

Schultz, George

science, rationality of

science and technology, accomplishment /superiority

1940s — 1950s

1980s — 1990s

2009 — 2012

agriculture/aquaculture

computer industry

computers and computer architecture

funding

globally

high-tech industry

information technology

Internet technology

Jews ascendency in

Manhattan Project

medical

nuclear weapons

prizes won

software radio technology

U.S. benefit from

U.S. Jews importance to

Scowcroft, Brent

self-determination

Senor, Dan

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

set theory

settlement, economics of

settlements

settlers, political concerns over

Shamir, Yitzhak

Shannon

Sharansky, Natan

Sharon, Ariel

Shlaim, Avi

Singer, Saul

Six-Day War (1967)

Snow, John

Sobol, Peter

socialism

social justice

Soros, George

Soviet Union

Sowell, Thomas

Stossel, John

Strauss, Lewis

success, two views of

suicide bombers/bombings

Summers, Lawrence

survival of the fittest

Syria

Szilárd, Leó

Taliban

Talmi, Igal

Technion University

technology sector. See also science and technology, accomplishment/superiority

Tel Aviv

Teller, Edward

Telushkin, Joseph

the territories

area

economy

expulsion of the Jews from

offers of withdrawal

population

withdrawal, consequences of

without the Jews, desire for

terrorism

funding

Netanyahu on/in the fight

against

peace in the rejection of

requirements for

U.S. policy supporting

Western vulnerability to

Terrorism (Edited by Netanyahu)

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior , The (von Neumann and Morgenstern)

“Theory of Games” (von Neumann)

Tiffany, Louis Comfort

Tiffany and Company

Tikkun (periodical)

Truman, Harry S.

Turing, Alan

Turing Award winners

Twain, Mark

ultra-Orthodox Jews

ultra-wideband technology

Uncertainty Deters Private Investment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Kanaan)

United Nations

Hamas policy

Israel policy

policy contradictions

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)

United States. See also specific presidents

economy

Israel relations, importance of

Jewish achievement, benefits of

survival of

technological innovation

weapons policy

United States, Jews in the

ascendency of

entrepreneurial, welcome of

victimization claims of

wealth gap

United States foreign policy

Gaza, aid to

Israel

Middle East

Utopian free market

victimization, groups claiming

video games

Vienna

violence

capitalism vs.

economic development vs.

foreign aid and

against the wealthy, justifications for

virtue, test of

virtues, Israel’s

von Bülow, Claus

von Hapsburg, Otto

von Mises, Ludwig

von Neumann, John

Wahhabis

Waltz with Bashir (film)

“War and Peace” (Aumann)

war on terror

wars

Arab-Israeli War of 1973,

causes of

disarmament and

peace initiatives followed by

Six-Day War (1967)

WASPs, displacement of American

water resources

wealth

attitudes toward

capitalist, as theft

creation, causes of

eliminating, victims of

Hitler’s focus on

hostility toward

origin of

poverty’s relation to

production, conditions for

Wealth and Poverty (Gilder)

wealth gap

the wealthy

Webster, William

WEIZAC (Weizmann Automatic Computer)

Weizmann, Chaim

Weizmann Institute

West Bank

area

economy

Israeli responsibility for

population, Arab and Jewish

surrender of, results

Whitman, Walt

Why the Jews? (Prager and Telushkin)

Wiener, Norbert

Wigner, Eugene

Will, George

Winnick, Gary

Wisair

Wisse, Ruth

Wolf Foundation Prize winners

World War II Allied victory

Xicor

Yehoshua, A. B. “Bulli,”

Yom Kippur War

Yon, Michael

Yozma program

Zamenhof, Ludwik

zerizus (alacrity), test of

zero-sum games

Zinn, Howard

Zionism, Hitler on

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Foreword © 2012 by Senator Joseph Lieberman

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The Israel test: why the world’s most beseiged state is a beacon of freedom and hope for the world economy / by George Gilder.

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1. Economics—Political aspects—Israel. 2. Israel—Economic conditions—21st century. 3. Antisemitism—Economic aspects. 4. Arab-Israeli conflict—Economic aspects. 5. Israel—Ethnic relations—Economic aspects. I. Title.

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