Wiped Off The Map

And Then?

	Leaders of some Middle Eastern nations and militant groups have declared that their objective is to "wipe the nation of Israel off the map". Other leaders and people of Middle Eastern nations express viewpoints indicating that they do not oppose that objective. Israel is smaller than New Jersey. It is seen here as the tiny bright-golden 8,000 square mile area in the map's middle.
Leaders and people of several other nations across the world tacitly, passively, and aggressively from time to time indicate they do not oppose that objective either.
The objective of these nations and millions of people is to kill or remove all Jewish people fro Israel.
Israel lives under an increasingly potent threat from neighboring nations that are intent upon acquiring nuclear weapons and all sorts of conventional weaponry including weapons of mass destruction. It is actually conceivable that Israel could be wiped off the map. Israel could cease to exist.

So what might the victors do with their newly acquired 8,000 square miles once 6 million Israelis are removed? Might they replace Israel's scientific and medical research and its high-tech product development?

Initially, without Israel, the Middle East would lose 6,000,000 people who produce more scientific papers per capita than those of any other nation. Israel has one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed of any nation. Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees ranking Israel third in the industrialized world after the US and Netherlands. Twelve percent of all Israelis hold advanced degrees.

Israel has developed its agricultural and industrial sectors over the last 20 years. Israel is largely self-sufficient in food production except for grains and beef. Diamonds, high technology, military equipment, software, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and agricultural products (fruits, vegetables and flowers) are Israel's leading exports. Israel has developed extensive facilities for oil refining, diamond polishing, and semiconductor fabrication.

Israel is a major high-tech development center which develops and exports technology and finished high-tech products globally.

Israel is a democratic republic with universal suffrage operating under a parliamentary system.

So, with the map wiped clean of Israel, there would be approximately 8,000 square miles freed up for Israel's victorious neighbors to slide into with no resistance.

How long would it take for Israel's victorious neighbors to establish themselves on the previously productive land once known as Israel? A reasonable answer to that question is apparent from reviewing what Israel's' neighbors produce today.

The 60-year-old nation of Israel built itself into a global economic force upon the same sand as her neighbors. Those neighbors sell oil that just happens to be under their feet and is extracted for them by several industrialized nations' corporations.

After wiping Israel off the map, the remaining Middle Eastern nations will simply have 8,000 more square miles upon which they can continue fighting amongst themselves. And when their oil runs dry and the industrialized world shifts to other fuels, Middle Eastern nations will have nothing to sell and will produce little -- just as today.