The Odds and a Story

Michael Coren describes why Israel is still the underdog in the Middle East, despite world media versions to the contrary.

...Israel is still David to the Arab world's Goliath, no matter what the more fashionable of our media types would have us believe. There are 23 Arab and Iranian police states and theocracies, and one democratic Israel. For every Israeli, there are 60 Arabs and Iranians. Israel has no oil reserves, the Arabs and Iranians have 2/3 of the world's oil. The Arabs and Iranians have 750 times the land of Israel, they have 14.6 times the GDP of Israel, they spend five times as much on arms.

This does not include the rest of the Islamic world, which in large part supports the Arab nations and spews hatred towards Israel.

He concludes with an bulls-eye story on the attitudes of the Western, pro-Palestinian protestors.

I remember the white, Anglo-Saxon Canadian young woman at the airport in Israel last year with her expensive clothes mixed with Palestinian trappings. She was indignant that the polite young Israeli policewoman had asked to search her bag. "My God", she said, "this is worse than the Nazis." The young Israeli fixed her with her big, beautiful, brown eyes and said this.

"No, miss. The Nazis didn't say please and thank you, didn't ask to search the bag of someone who has been living in the heart of terrorist country for a month, didn't allow you the right to protest. What they did do was to murder virtually every member of my family. Why weren't you people protesting then?"