Show 448 The Israel Test. Prager talks to author George Gilder. Audio MP3

Show 448 Dennis Prager talks to George Gilder, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and author of many seminal books. His new book is The Israel Test. 

 "Some people admire success; some people envy it. The enviers hate Israel."

The Israel Test by George Gilder.

The central issue in international politics, dividing the world into two fractious armies, is the tiny state of Israel. Now, in The Israel Test, George Gilder gives a surprising and original take on this seemingly endless conflict. He explains that the prime issue between Israel and the Palestinians -- contrary to both liberal and conservative assumptions -- is not land, and it isn't simply a matter of ethnic strife between the Arabs and the Jews, either. Gilder argues that it isn't even primarily a front in a global war of civilizations between the West and Islam. These conflicts are real and salient, says Gilder, but they obscure the deeper moral and ideological war. He explains here that the real issue is between the rule of law and the rule of leveler egalitarianism, between creative excellence and covetous "fairness," and between admiration of achievement versus envy and resentment of it.

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