popular sovereignty, limits of
Porter, Michael
positive-sum games
poverty, causes underlying
Power, Samantha
Prager, Dennis
Prebisch, Raúl
property rights
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
al-Qaida
quantum theory
Rabin, Yitzhak
racialist self-determination
Rambam medical center
Rashi
rational choice theory
rationality
religion and
of science
Rational Optimist, The (Ridley)
Ratz, Laszlo
Rauff, Walther
Reagan, Ronald
Religious Right
Reuveny, Rafael
Revolt of the Masses, The (Ortega y Gasset)
Rice, Condoleezza
Rice, Susan
Ridley, Matt
Roberts, Edward B.
Rockefeller, David
Rommel, Erwin
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosen, Walter
Ross, Dennis
Rothschild family
Russian Revolution
Rust, Bernhard
Rutenberg, Pinchas
Rutherford, Ernest
Sadat, Anwar
Said, Edward
Saifun
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
Sandisk
Sarbanes Oxley law
Schor, Esther
Schrödinger, Erwin
Schultz, George
science, rationality of
science and technology, accomplishment /superiority
1940s — 1950s
1980s — 1990s
2009 — 2012
agriculture/aquaculture
computer industry
computers and computer architecture
funding
globally
high-tech industry
information technology
Internet technology
Jews ascendency in
Manhattan Project
medical
nuclear weapons
prizes won
software radio technology
U.S. benefit from
U.S. Jews importance to
Scowcroft, Brent
self-determination
Senor, Dan
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
set theory
settlement, economics of
settlements
settlers, political concerns over
Shamir, Yitzhak
Shannon
Sharansky, Natan
Sharon, Ariel
Shlaim, Avi
Singer, Saul
Six-Day War (1967)
Snow, John
Sobol, Peter
socialism
social justice
Soros, George
Soviet Union
Sowell, Thomas
Stossel, John
Strauss, Lewis
success, two views of
suicide bombers/bombings
Summers, Lawrence
survival of the fittest
Syria
Szilárd, Leó
Taliban
Talmi, Igal
Technion University
technology sector. See also science and technology, accomplishment/superiority
Tel Aviv
Teller, Edward
Telushkin, Joseph
the territories
area
economy
expulsion of the Jews from
offers of withdrawal
population
withdrawal, consequences of
without the Jews, desire for
terrorism
funding
Netanyahu on/in the fight
against
peace in the rejection of
requirements for
U.S. policy supporting
Western vulnerability to
Terrorism (Edited by Netanyahu)
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, The (von Neumann and Morgenstern)
“Theory of Games” (von Neumann)
Tiffany, Louis Comfort
Tiffany and Company
Tikkun (periodical)
Truman, Harry S.
Turing, Alan
Turing Award winners
Twain, Mark
ultra-Orthodox Jews
ultra-wideband technology
Uncertainty Deters Private Investment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Kanaan)
United Nations
Hamas policy
Israel policy
policy contradictions
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
United States. See also specific presidents
economy
Israel relations, importance of
Jewish achievement, benefits of
survival of
technological innovation
weapons policy
United States, Jews in the
ascendency of
entrepreneurial, welcome of
victimization claims of
wealth gap
United States foreign policy
Gaza, aid to
Israel
Middle East
Utopian free market
victimization, groups claiming
video games
Vienna
violence
capitalism vs.
economic development vs.
foreign aid and
against the wealthy, justifications for
virtue, test of
virtues, Israel’s
von Bülow, Claus
von Hapsburg, Otto
von Mises, Ludwig
von Neumann, John
Wahhabis
Waltz with Bashir (film)
“War and Peace” (Aumann)
war on terror
wars
Arab-Israeli War of 1973,
causes of
disarmament and
peace initiatives followed by
Six-Day War (1967)
WASPs, displacement of American
water resources
wealth
attitudes toward
capitalist, as theft
creation, causes of
eliminating, victims of
Hitler’s focus on
hostility toward
origin of
poverty’s relation to
production, conditions for
Wealth and Poverty (Gilder)
wealth gap
the wealthy
Webster, William
WEIZAC (Weizmann Automatic Computer)
Weizmann, Chaim
Weizmann Institute
West Bank
area
economy
Israeli responsibility for
population, Arab and Jewish
surrender of, results
Whitman, Walt
Why the Jews? (Prager and Telushkin)
Wiener, Norbert
Wigner, Eugene
Will, George
Winnick, Gary
Wisair
Wisse, Ruth
Wolf Foundation Prize winners
World War II Allied victory
Xicor
Yehoshua, A. B. “Bulli,”
Yom Kippur War
Yon, Michael
Yozma program
Zamenhof, Ludwik
zerizus (alacrity), test of
zero-sum games
Zinn, Howard
Zionism, Hitler on
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