I'm a Canadian Israeli, Aliyah Class of '10. You may know me as tweeter @notantisemitic but here I'll tickle your Zionist bone in other ways.
3 thoughts on “Israel’s Nobel Prize Winners vs. The Other Guys”
fizziks
It would be even more effective to put it up against ALL ARAB Nobel prizes, along with the relative populations at the top (8 million in Israel versus 200 million in the Arab world). I believe as far as Nobel prizes Arabs only have 1) Arafat plus 2) that anti-child marriage activist in Yemen for the peace prize, 3) Naguib Mahfouz for literature, and 4) Ahmed Zeweil for Chemistry.
Or, you could even do Israel versus all 1.2 billion Muslims! All they’ve got (off the top of my head) is the four mentioned above plus Muhammad Yunnis, Abdus Salam (who was excommunicated from Islam anyway), Sadat, Mohammad el Baredei, and Orhan Pamuk. So that’s 12 for Israel (population 8 million) versus 9 for the entire Muslim world (population 9 billion).
I don’t think there is a single Sephardi Jew in this picture, yet they were able to earn Nobel Prizes even in hellholes like in Algeria and Venezuela. It makes me wonder…
And let’s face it, peace and literature don’t count as a real Nobel prize. It’s like earning a gift when you buy a happy meal =p
It would be even more effective to put it up against ALL ARAB Nobel prizes, along with the relative populations at the top (8 million in Israel versus 200 million in the Arab world). I believe as far as Nobel prizes Arabs only have 1) Arafat plus 2) that anti-child marriage activist in Yemen for the peace prize, 3) Naguib Mahfouz for literature, and 4) Ahmed Zeweil for Chemistry.
Or, you could even do Israel versus all 1.2 billion Muslims! All they’ve got (off the top of my head) is the four mentioned above plus Muhammad Yunnis, Abdus Salam (who was excommunicated from Islam anyway), Sadat, Mohammad el Baredei, and Orhan Pamuk. So that’s 12 for Israel (population 8 million) versus 9 for the entire Muslim world (population 9 billion).
I don’t think there is a single Sephardi Jew in this picture, yet they were able to earn Nobel Prizes even in hellholes like in Algeria and Venezuela. It makes me wonder…
And let’s face it, peace and literature don’t count as a real Nobel prize. It’s like earning a gift when you buy a happy meal =p
I noticed half of the prizes were in Chemistry. That probably means something, but I have no idea what it is.