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Op-Ed: Why Israel is the World’s Best Nation

With all the accusations hurled at us, it is good to see a "righteous
Gentile" who appreciates the uniqueness of Israel in the family of nations.

Published: Saturday, August 16, 2014

Giulio Meotti

The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly.

I don’t know another nation on earth which since its founding, than seventy
years ago, had to sacrifice 23,000 soldiers.
I don’t know another nation on earth without recognized borders.
I don’t know another nation on earth whose population lives under a
perpetual emotional strain.
I don’t know another nation on earth threatened to be wiped off the map.
I don’t know another nation on earth so threatened by boycotts all over the
world.
I don’t know another nation on earth where winners tend to lose wars.
I don’t know another nation on earth which provides its own enemy with
water, electricity, food, weapons, and medical treatment.
I don’t know another nation on earth where guests on official visits utter
disrespectful and offensive words.
But I also don’t know another nation on earth which has recorded so many
miracles.
Imagine a helpless, naked  Jew at the gas ovens facing a Nazi official, who
thinks he will get rid of the “Jewish cancer”, get rid of this unique
phenomenon of 2,000 years.
Could that helpless, naked Jew imagine that in 50 years other Jews will be
flying F-16’s in the skies over Israel?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel’s population today would be
nine times that of 1948, the year of the state’s creation?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel is much happier than all the
European countries?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel has the highest production of
scientific publications per capita in the world?
Could that helpless Jew imagine  that Israel has the highest worldwide
publication of new books?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel is the only nation which began
the XXI century with a net gain in the number of trees?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel has with largest number of
chess grandmasters per capita of any city in the world?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel is the nation whose academics
produce more scientific papers per capita than anywhere else in the world?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel is the nation with the highest
ratio of university degrees to the population in the world?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel is the country which, in
proportion to its population, with the largest number of startup companies
in the world?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel is the country with the highest
percentage in the world of home computers per capita?
Could that helpless Jew imagine that Israel is the nation with the largest
immigrant-absorbing model on earth?
Unfortunately, you will not find Israel’s goodness and superiority in the
media (also Israeli), because it doesn’t fit in with the stereotype of the
colonialist Zionist occupier.
In the world’s consciousness, the word “Israel” must be equated with fear.
Israel just came out of another war against terrorists whose value is less
than that of animals. Do you know of any animal species sheltering behind
its own children?
But the Jewish State, despite its media, its cynical politicians,
establishment, once again showed the world it is the best humanity has to
offer.
This hope is impressed in the faces of Israel’s fallen soldiers, its
wounded and injured soldiers. In those faces there is joy de vivre, not
sadness or hatred.
Terrorists and their Western appeasers want to destroy Israel because it is
a light unto the nations.
The only one in the world in which we live.