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May 15, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2008/05/10/5527051-sun.html

Israel Deserves Admiration

[Edmonton Sun-Canada] Salim Mansur - The birth of Israel has offered Jews a secure home where they may prosper without any fear or apology. If Israel had been born ten years earlier, then a great many Jews who perished in Hitler's death camps likely would have survived. Jews are an insignificant fraction of the present world population of over six and a half billion - around 14 million, or 0.2% of the total. Yet Jewish contributions in the making of the modern world tower above that of any other people in relative terms and the immense odds of survival as a people given the level of hostility directed at them. Turning a desert into one of the rich economies of the world few imagined six decades ago is a proof of how much more could be achieved if those fighting Jews joined with them instead. The writer, a Muslim, is an associate professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario.

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