3 Responses to “An interview with Richard Goldstone”

1. Lynne T says:

   5 October 2009 at 4:44 PM

   chas:

   Not a comment on the egregious Goldstone report, but a link to an article posted on City Journal about Israel’s rapid rise as a high tech giant, and Netanyahu’s key role in this.

   For all the “anti-Zionists” who blame all of the violence and dysfunction in Palestinian society on the dread occupation, the money quote comes at the end:

   Netanyahu’s vision is an Israel that, as a global financial center, could transform the economics of the Middle East. Israel could become a Hong Kong of the desert. Just as Hong Kong ultimately reshaped the Chinese economy in its own image when Deng Xiaoping mimicked its free economy, Israel could become a force for economic liberation in the Middle East, reaching out to Palestinians and other Arabs with the blandishments of commercial opportunity. After all, it has long been Israeli enterprise that has attracted Arabs to Palestine. Between 1967, when Israel took over the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and 1987, when the first intifada erupted, those two territories were one of the fastest-growing economies on earth. GDP surged 30 percent a year for a decade, the Arab population nearly tripled, six new universities were launched, and Arab longevity jumped from 43 years to 74.

   Read it all: http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_3_jewish-capitalism.html

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2. Chas Newkey-Burden says:

   5 October 2009 at 4:56 PM

   Good stuff, Lynne. Thanks so much for this and I will indeed read it all. Hope others do too.

   Just a quick additional note: under Israeli ‘occupation’, life-expectancy in the West Bank has risen sharply. A strange kind of genocide, really.

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3. Lynne T says:

   6 October 2009 at 4:18 PM

   In 1967, Gaza was a miserable backwater, long neglected by its Egpyptian governors, where communicable diseases eliminated virtually everywhere else in the world via mass immunization remained rampant. Naturally, the evil Israeli occupiers responded to this state of affairs by… …immunizing the population, as well as developing its economy.

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