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This Web page was created to explain why it is in America's self-interest to support Israel.
Israel and those who attack it are not moral equals. Israel is, like the United States, a "mixed economy," which retains a significant respect for individual rights. Its citizens, whatever their race or religion, enjoy many freedoms, including freedom of thought and speech, and the right to own property. The purpose of Israel's military is only self-defense: to protect its citizens from aggressors. Consequently, Israel has a moral right to exist.
Those attacking Israel, by contrast, are terrorist organizations, dictatorships and theocracies, which deliberately violate the rights of their own subjects. Even if these organizations and regimes had never initiated force against Israel, they still would have no moral right to exist.
ARI's moral support of Israel is obviously not an endorsement of all of its actions or policies. We are critical, for instance, of Israel's failure fully to separate state from both religion and economics, as the principle of individual rights demands. But we recognize that those who attack Israel are not seeking to establish an even freer nation: they are seeking to wipe out the only outpost of freedom in the Middle East.
We support Israel not for its failings but for its virtues, and we understand that those who threaten Israel's freedom also threaten America's. If they succeed in destroying Israel, they will turn their full attention to the United States.
Thus, in the name of justice and self-preservation, we hold that America should openly support Israel against our common enemies.
Ayn Rand on Israel (Ford Hall Forum lecture, 1974)
Q: What should the United Sates do about the [1973] Arab-Israeli War?
AR: Give all the help possible to Israel. Consider what is at stake. It is not the moral duty of any country to send men to die helping another country. The help Israel needs is technology and military weapons—and they need them desperately. Why should we help Israel? Israel is fighting not just the Arabs but Soviet Russia, who is sending the Arabs armaments. Russia is after control of the Mediterranean and oil.
Further, why are the Arabs against Israel? (This is the main reason I support Israel.) The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. Israel is a mixed economy inclined toward socialism. But when it comes to the power of the mind—the development of industry in that wasted desert continent—versus savages who don't want to use their minds, then if one cares about the future of civilization, don't wait for the government to do something. Give whatever you can. This is the first time I've contributed to a public cause: helping Israel in an emergency.
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The owner of this tour company/internet cafe/free computer school is self-taught. An amazing fellow. At the beginning of the year he was ripped off in a very clever work visa scam in which the scam artists performed corporate identity theft of both a well known hotel in London as well as a visa company. These scam artists prey on the desperation of people in countries like Burma where many people have no hope to make a living for their families and have to find work in places such as Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia...and are generally treated very poorly.
In this case it was fortunate for his home town of Nyaung Shwe which is the gateway to the mystical Inle Lake of Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). Inle Pancake Kingdom offers not only the best fresh strawberry and chocolate pancakes to be found anywhere in Burma, but also uses it's facilities to teach the local children computer skills and English.
With the dramatic drop in tourists coming into the country Inle Pancake Kingdom is moving into a new realm of virtual tourism and is creating videos of traditional culture to bring the true spirit of the people of Myanmar to the world.The owner of this tour company/internet cafe/free computer school is self-taught. An... more
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Thousands throng to swallow a live fish "wonder cure" in southern India.
In India's southern Hyderabad city, people gather to receive a traditional treatment believed to cure asthma and other respiratory ailments.
Patients buy a two-inch-long Murrel fish, and swallow it live after it has been stuffed with a herbal mixture.Thousands throng to swallow a live fish "wonder cure" in southern India.... more
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Social networking site geared towards reviving the food preparation rituals and techniques of our ancestors to create future generations of healthy families.Social networking site geared towards reviving the food preparation rituals and... more
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Enthralling article that follows traditional music group Old Crow Medicine Show from their origins as street buskers to their appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. This article will definitely alter your perspective on the old timey music that is beginning to experience a sort of revival today.Enthralling article that follows traditional music group Old Crow Medicine Show from... more
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