Comment in response to the blogs about the Economist article (March 26. 2010) “Wall of Suspicion”
Stefanek, if you are going to accuse others of not getting their facts straight, then how about it yourself.
Quote from you: “Tiny Israel has one of the ten biggest economies in the world without any natural resources except brain power”.
According to the UN for 2009 (no doubt you would regard this as an anti Israeli conspiracy as well), the top fifty economies in the world by GDP were:
1 US; 2 China; 3 Japan; 4 Germany; 5 France; 6 United Kingdom; 7 Italy; 8 Russia; 9. Spain; 10 Brazil; 11 Canada; 12 India; 13 Mexico; 14 Australia; 15 South Korea; 16. Netherlands; 17. Turkey; 18. Poland; 19. Indonesia; 20. Belgium; 21.Switzerland22. Sweden; 23. Saudi Arabia; 24. Norway; 25. Austria; 26. Taiwan; 27. Greece; 28. Denmark; 29. Iran; 30. Argentina; 31. Venezuela; 32. South Africa; 33 Thailand; 34. Finland; 35. Ireland; 36. UAE; 37. Portugal; 38. Columbia; 39 Malaysia; 40 Czech Republic; 41. Nigeria; 42.Israel; 43. Romania; 44. Singapore; 45. Ukraine; 46 Chile; 47. Phillipines; 48. Pakistan; 49. Egypt; 50. Algeria
No doubt some of this order has change as a result of the GFC, but not by much and this puts Israel 42nd, far from the top ten as you claim. There is no need to exaggerate Israel’s importance or achievements, but if you are going to tell others to get their facts straight, how about you do the same?
Love the blog
Karen, thank you for your comments. i have updated some posts today with more following in the next couple of days if you are interested.
Michael Liley
Karen,
Thanks for the feedback. Haven’t posted for a while, but with world politics as it currently exists I couldn’t resist any longer. More in the future. Be interested in any feedback from my latest editions.