"My friends, it would behoove you to study everything you can get your hands on by George Gilder, a true American genius." -- Rush Limbaugh
“Israel is the crucial battlefield for Capitalism and Freedom in our time.” -- George Gilder, author of The Israel Test
George Gilder’s global best seller Wealth & Poverty made the moral case for capitalism to millions of Americans, changing the national debate. Now Gilder, in The Israel Test, makes the moral case for Israel as a bastion of capitalism and freedom.
Have you ever wondered why, in our time, it is the Left that leads the attack on Israel? After reading The Israel Test you will never wonder again. Gilder brilliantly shows that Israel is the ultimate test dividing those who really stand with Capitalist Democracy from those who always blame America and Israel first.
Gilder’s argument has even long-time defenders of Israel saying things like “I never looked at Israel that way before. I never truly realized what was at stake.” The Jerusalem Post raves about the book’s “unexpected power.” But that’s the way it has always been with Gilder’s work. He has an astonishing knack for making his readers see fresh what should have been obvious all along.
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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 paramount example of the blessings of freedom.
Hostility toward Israel, says Gilder, like hostility toward the United States, arises primarily from hostility toward capitalist creativity. Anti-Semitism has always arisen from envy and greed, even if cloaked in Nazi or Marxist "moral" critiques of commerce, portraying Jewish enterprises that enrich the world as parasitical or even criminal conspiracies. Rooted in a Marxist zero-sum game theory of economics, this vision has fueled the anti-Semitic rantings of Hitler, Arafat, bin Laden and history's other notorious haters.
Gilder contends that if we allow Israel to be quelled or destroyed, we will be succumbing to forces targeting capitalism and freedom everywhere. The Israel test is ultimately a test of our own will to triumph over enemies who hate us, as they hate Israel, for what is best within us.
Faced with a contest between murderous regimes sustained by envy and Nazi ideology, and a free, prosperous, and capitalist Israel--whose side are you on?