Wine&Steak
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An Israeli diplomat told me last year that he tells his Arab counterparts that he was grateful for their boycott of Israel: although it made things harder for a while (Israel came close to starvation after absorbing Arab states' illegal mass expulsion of their Jews after 1948) it meant that Israel had to develop an advanced agricultural and industrial base of its own, which when the state de-socialized became a foundation of Israel's later explosive economic growth. Otherwise, he thinks, Israel would have remained what it was in the 1940s: a near-subsistence agricultural economy importing much of its goods from surrounding Arab states.
100% agree with the diplomat. Israel is/will zooming, specially with the knowledge industry busting the seams.
sometimes "Necessity is the mother of all inventions". Good for you guys. Only folks, who are not jealous, can see this.