You know the photo had nothing to do with AIPAC, it sounds like pain anti-Semitism, I would advise you to read a little about it “Dr.”

The EU is a weakling because it has little energy (I mean oil). They should team up with Russia that could be its Texas then they could talk. But that’s exactly what the US wants to avoid. They have it easy because those who lived under Russian rule (Poles, Baltics, Ethnic Ukrainians, etc) are very happy to see the Americans coming. It was not fun to live behind the iron curtain. So Europe is a pawn of the US but recent history favors the US vs. Russia and without Russia, Europe can only remain a power of second order.

Ames, yes… but he’s small fry compare to Taki’s Magazine Editor, Jim Goad (aged 50).

He is an outspoken advocate of beastiality. He openly boasts of spreading peanut butter on his genitals and having dogs fellate him.

He also enjoys sexual liasions with the mentally ill. While married to an insane woman who was dying of cancer, he sought comfort in the arms of an even crazier woman – herself widely known around Portland for publicly fellating dogs. He ended this relationship by crushing her eyesocket (“bitch-beating” he calls it), and was subsequently sent to prison.

Upon release from prison, he immediately began a relationship with yet another insane woman. A custody battle over their dogs ensued.

You can read about much of it here:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YG5YubNw1pgC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=spin+%22jim+goad%22&source=bl&ots=SptF7nNhmb&sig=-KrXNapI8zjqBPJXOahafdqhGHY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bbycUIu8DsqM0wXTwYGwBA&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ

He can also be seen here (around 15:35) sadistically tormenting a homeless prostitute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9HELH-ZYhE

Between prison and Taki, he worked in the pornographic industry. He wrote an article about preteen sexuality for Vice magazine, after which he was let go. At Takimag he wrote an article about a preteen gang-rape victim, referring to her with the phrase: “teeny-tiny turkey twat.”

http://takimag.com/article/blacks_rape_preteen_hispanic_in_texas_whites_get_blamed1/page_2#axzz2BEq5Loeo

It was widely viewed that the “American Conservative” magazine failed because it didn’t appeal to young people. Curiously, the radical far-right fringe has decided to invest in Jim Goad. While he is clearly interested in young people, it would appear that young people these days are more interested in Obama than beastiality, pedophilia, and racism.

1. American jews are mostly Ashkenazi. (probably the biggest factor).
2. Geographics – Israel is low on natural resources.
3. the Israeli-Arab conflict denies trade with a good part of the neighboring countries while international reputation probably hurts trading opportunities with the rest of the world.
4. infrastructure – Israel is a young country.

Adding a few:
5. Disproportionate focus on military spending (for obvious reasons).
6. Founded as a socialist country, modified by market reforms from the late 70-ies onwards.

I´m sure that there are more factors out there.

RE: 
for most of human existence there must have been more than a little difference in fitness between those who eagerly sought out the help of a medicine man / doctor and those who just went to church (or wherever) and prayed to the spirits instead 
For most of human pre-history, adhering to religious practices would have meant trusting and respecting the tribe’s medicine man or shaman 
and following his prescriptions in case of a sickness, so a tendency to adhere to religious practices wouldn’t have avoided iatrogenic harm because “medicine” and “religion” were not separate and were administered by the same authority figure.