{"id":1586,"date":"2009-08-24T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.org\/tech\/2009\/08\/24\/the_israel_test_a_substitute_f\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:56:49","slug":"the_israel_test_a_substitute_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2009\/08\/24\/the_israel_test_a_substitute_f\/","title":{"rendered":"The Israel Test: a Substitute for the Ad Campaign Israel Needs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Wohlstetter is prejudiced in <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2009\/08\/10\/israel-inside\/1\">his praise of The Israel Test<\/a>; he&#8217;s a friend of the author, George Gilder. Of course, a review by an author&#8217;s friend has never happened anywhere else, has it?<br \/>\nRegardless, John is a friend and colleague of mine, too, and I know what he does when he disapproves of a friend&#8217;s views: he goes silent. This article in <em>The American Spectator<\/em> is, in fact, a very good introduction to the George Gilder&#8217;s book.<br \/>\nThe best lines are these, at the end:<br \/>\n<em><strong>Israel could be the economic engine for the entire Mideast. This is the new Israel, no longer a financial ward of America. It is this Israel that most Americans know not of. &#8220;Israel Inside&#8221; would be a great slogan for an ad campaign educating Americans about the new Israel, and its supreme value to America and the West. In lieu of an ad blitz, Gilder&#8217;s book does the job beautifully.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIsrael does need an &#8220;ad campaign&#8221; right now because its foes seem to have a great many people intimidated. George is fearless. His book goes where many media voices seem afraid to go.<br \/>\nSee also <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=NTI5ZjY2NTk3YWU2Yzk3NTk5ODliYmNjYjMxOTBjZDk=\">this interview in <em>National Review<\/em> online<\/a>, with Kathyrn Lopez. The Daily Telegraph&#8217;s Stephanie Guttman just blogged her review, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/stephaniegutmann\/100006118\/israel-is-just-too-successful-for-the-losers-of-the-leftist-intelligentsia\/\">available here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wohlstetter is prejudiced in his praise of The Israel Test; he&#8217;s a friend of the author, George Gilder. Of course, a review by an author&#8217;s friend has never happened anywhere else, has it? Regardless, John is a friend and colleague of mine, too, and I know what he does when he disapproves of a friend&#8217;s views: he goes silent. This article in The American Spectator is, in fact, a very good introduction to the George Gilder&#8217;s book. The best lines are these, at the end: Israel could be the economic engine for the entire Mideast. This is the new Israel, no longer a financial ward of America. It is this Israel that most Americans know not of. &#8220;Israel Inside&#8221;<a class=\"ellipsis article-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2009\/08\/24\/the_israel_test_a_substitute_f\/\"><span> Read More &rsaquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[102],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Bruce Chapman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1586"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}