Re: Communication and Travel

John Atkinson wrote:

> Minor note:  Israel has, in the past 60 years, created it's population
>
> from almost scratch, it's economy from less than that, and heavy
> industry from nothing.  I submit that given a half-century of growth a
>
> nation will have the capability to hold it's own.  Especially if it
> doesn't have to deal with a lot of genocidal neighbors invading once a
>
> decade.

That and 8+ billion $US a year in militrary aid, not to mention civilian
aid, plus all teh foreign donations.

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