Israel is the crucial battlefield for Capitalism and Freedom in our time.
George Gilder's global best-seller Wealth and Poverty made the moral case for capitalism. Now Gilder makes the case for Israel, portraying a conflict of barbarism and envy against civilization and creativity.
Gilder reveals Israel as a leader of human civilization, technological progress, and scientific advance. Tiny Israel stands behind only the United States in its contributions to the hi-tech economy. Israel has become the world's paramount example of the blessings of freedom.
Hatred of Israel, like anti-Semitism through history, arises from resentment of Jewish success. Rooted in a Marxist zero-sum-game theory of economics, this vision has fueled the anti-Semitic rantings of Hitler, Arafat, Osama, and history's other notorious haters.
Faced with a contest between murderous regimes sustained by envy and Nazi ideology, and a free, prosperous, and capitalist, IsraelÃ,Â--whose side are you on?
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Much more than the title lets on:
The Israel Test is an amazingly deep and insightful book about the reasons that not only Israel, but the United States, have aroused wide spread resentment throughout the world. The author argues that, quite convincingly, that Israel and the United States are resented for their success. Both nations have obtained power and influence disproportionate to their size largely because of a capitalist system that rewards innovation, and a culture that encourages risk taking, the unconventional, and the... more info
A Test For Democratic Capitalism:
The Israel Test
By George Gilder What is your attitude toward people who excel you in the creation of wealth or in other accomplishment? Do you aspire to their excellence, or do you seethe at it? Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement, or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down? This in a nut shell is the Israel Test. In summary, some people admire success; some people envy it. The enviers hate Israel. I found while reading the book that those who fail the Israel test do so not... more info
An inspiring pean to capitalism but a weird case for Israel:
This is an unusual book on the subject of the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Middle East. It does not even summarize the history that one would think is necessary to have an informed opinion. The book does not go into the recent demographic history of the whole region that, prior to 1922 has been known in the West (though not to the Muslims themselves) as "Palestine", which has always been defined on both sides of the Jordan. No mention that most of those Arabs who, after the 1960's for the first time came to... more info
Extremely biased and disheartening:
This book is a joke. Perhaps Mr. Gilder should take accountability for the grave human rights abuses occurring in Israel. Does he really support apartheid and occupation? Does Gilder really delight in the fact that thousands of people were made refugees overnight in 1948? This book is arrogant, extremely biased, somewhat racist and self-indulgent.
How does criticizing Israel's brutal treatment of Palestinians make someone anti-Semitic or Nazi-ish or even jealous of the Jews? Just as Christians and... more info
