Yes, another Jew won another Nobel prize: And this time, he’s [gasp!] Israeli. Born before the state, actually. Damn those wily Jews and their ZOG conspiracies! They’re gaming the system, again! So we’re up to three so far (that are definitely Jews). We’ll keep you informed. And just for kicks and giggles, here’s the AP version, which does not (for a change) bash Israel. So that’s ten Nobels for the Israelis so far. Not bad for a tiny country only sixty-some years old.
Erdogan ups the ante in demagoguery: Nice to see that Erdogan is taking Panetta’s suggestion to improve relations with Israeli seriously. He’s now accusing Israel of being a nuclear threat. Why? Because Israel has nuclear weapons and no one else in the Middle East does—at least not yet. Yeah, what a great NATO partner. What a perfect addition to the EU Turkey would make. Gee. I wonder why he’s going all Islamist on Israel? Hm. Let’s think… oh, that’s right. Because he is an Islamist. And this is his latest shtick. He gave an interview to Time magazine last week, where he bashed Israel. Then there are the ten questions, where he—you guessed it—bashes Israel. Watch Turkey’s fortunes decline as the Islamists take a stronger hold. Everywhere Islamism rises, civil liberties fall, and brutality occurs.
And now, the new Uzi Mahnaimi journalist: Long-time readers will know that I warn you to ignore everything you read by Uzi Mahnaimi, who first brought us the utter bullshit of the bogus “genetic bomb” that would target only Palestinians and leave Israelis unharmed. He also told us that Israel was imminently attacking Iran about half a dozen times. Nope, still not IAF jets dropping bombs on Iranian nukes. Well, we have the new Uzi Mahnaimi, and his name is Tony Karon. He’s not content with bashing Israel, he’s also passing along bullshit stories about Israel attacking Iran. Thankfully, not many people read newsmagazines anymore.
Legal Insurrection has a nice post about Chemistry winner Daniel Shechtman
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded scientific denier
There is a link to a video of Shechtman discussing his experience.
Actually I’d love to shove this in the face of so many who refuse to admit the good that Israelis, with the help of American aid to keep the country intact, have been permitted to develop and distribute.
Be fair, Meryl. When you posted once about Israeli contributions to technology, medicine, and other forms of research, I specifically asked you to post about all the wonderful and life-improving innovations that come out of the much more populous Arab world, and you failed to post even one.
Similarly, please list all the Nobel Prizes won by Arabs and Muslims generally.
Alex:
Do you mean to include the No Bell Piss Prize (from an old Feghoot)?
Do you mean to include the ones that the Muslims would claim (such as Barak Hussein Obama), even though he would reject that claim himself?
Alex,
Abdus Salam from Pakistan won a Nobel Prize in Physics. He shared the 1979 prize with Shaldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for theoretical work on the electroweak theory; the unification of the electromagnetic and weak interaction. He was a Muslim, or at any rate an Ahmadi (many Muslims don’t think of them as Muslims dontcherknow, so they are often persecuted in Pakistan). From the Wikipedia article about him: “Salam left Pakistan in protest when Pakistan Parliament controversially passed a parliamentary bill declaring Ahmadiyya Muslim Community as Non-Muslims.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam
Not to be left in Zionist shadows the Saudi Arabian government proved its mental prowess by executing a witch!
http://bikyamasr.com/42853/sudanese-man-beheaded-for-witchcraft/
SRSLY?
Oh well, I guess living in the 17th Century is better than living in the 9th.
Naguib Mahfouz won the nobel prize for literature in 1988, and, while the nobel prize for literature is rather subjective, it wasn’t an outrageous choice — way better than a lot of the peace prize winners. And he was at least somewhat anti-fundamentalist, stood up for Salman Rushdie, etc.,
That one I knew offhand, by looking it up online, I also found: Ahmed Zewail, 1999 nobel prize in chemistry. but that’s it, i think, aside from the aforementioned physics prize and the peace prizes for Sadat and Arafat [oh, wait, also Muhammed Yunus and Shirin Ebadi, which were not so bad]
I didn’t claim that Muslims and Arabs in particular hadn’t won any Nobel Prizes. As to Mahfouz, TMa, I read one of his novels and wasn’t overly impressed but I am not expert in the field and goodness knows they’ve handed the literature prize to worse writers.
But Israel has won a number of Nobel Prizes in various fields and Jews have won a number of literature prizes, even more if you count Harold Pinter and I’d just as soon not.
hundreds of millions of people from Casablanca to the Hindu Kush, people who by no means are unintelligent, and a couple of prizes. A people who are a statistically insignificant part of the world population and a country which is even smaller as a proportion of humanity manages to pick up lots.
I say this not as a means of Jewish self-congratulation, of which we have an ample amount, but more to point out the incredible waste. It’s not as if Arabs and Muslims are incapable of contributing something to the world (other than grotesque and unprecedented forms of savagery) but that they don’t. And what would the world and their area be like if they did?
Oh, you aren’t getting any argument from me, not at all! Given that the question was asked, and a partial answer was given, I was just filling in the rest. I don’t know that the Nobel prizes are necessarily the right measure of anything, but the dramatically disproportionate representation of Jews and Israelis is striking.
Alex, 10/06/2011 at 12:07 pm,
And what would the world and their area be like if they did?
Now given what the remnants of European Jewry and those who fled the Muslim world have achieved in Israel and America, we should ponder what the what the world would be like had the 6 million survived.