{An unproven claim. }

Yes, proven.

I know you like and trust him very much, so will cite your favourite Israel expert:
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/01/27/stealing-success-tel-aviv-style/
[It adds that Israel recruits spies, uses electronic methods, and carries out computer intrusion to gain the information. The 2005 report concluded that the thefts eroded US military advantage, enabling foreign powers to obtain expensive technologies that had taken years to develop.]
[A 1996 Defense Investigative Service report noted that Israel has great success stealing technology by exploiting the numerous co-production projects that it has with the Pentagon.]
[In June 2006, a Pentagon administrative judge overruled an appeal by an Israeli who had been denied a security clearance, stating, "The Israeli government is actively engaged in military and industrial espionage in the United States. An Israeli citizen working in the US who has access to proprietary information is likely to be a target of such espionage." ]

You can enjoy the rest of Mr. Giraldi’s article proving the claim I originally made: “Israel borrows, copies, steals technology developed in US”

{Yet the USSR (then) and Russia (now) are well documented as having relied upon stolen technology & patents to get their economy to function at all. And, you seem enamored of the USSR…why?}

Yes, of course.
That is why USSR was the first to send a satellite into orbit.
Also they stole the technology of sending the first human into outer space.
They also stole the technology of pioneering the robotic exploration of space, Lunokhod: about 25 years _before_ US's Mars Pathfinder, another remote-controlled vehicle, was put on an extraterrestrial body.
Well documented ? by whom: the same people why deny Israel steals technology from US ?

{ A country based on credentialism where no one is held accountable, yet somehow their education system was “world class”? I think we define that term differently.}

See the NY Times article I referenced above about Soviet Jewish scientists in Israel.
Read the entire article: you will enjoy it.

{ Israel is far more than a blip.}

As far as the world’s economy is concerned, it is a blip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29

If Israel’s economy went down to zero, nobody but Israelis would notice or care.

"It takes a lot of water to grow oranges." Sure. But the true statement should be worded this way: "It takes a lot of stolen water to grow oranges."
Apart from stealing the land, Israel has been stealing Palestinian water as well:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/03/israel-water-miracle-palestine-20143247252981587.html

Israel is NOT the largest exporter of oranges in the world. Without even looking for the statistics that claim is patently absurd considering the geographic size of its competitors, e.g., the U.S., Brazil, Italy. Where in the hell did you get that information?
Even if true, we're supposed to be impressed by orange production? Be serious!

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It's not my responsibility to educate a racist, bigoted clown. Why don't you try searching the web for 'Palestinian' and 'author'. There's a lot out there, not just Edward Said, whom you clearly would denigrate. Oh, WTF, I'll make it simple as it's good educational practice to differentiate for those who are differently abled: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/15627.Best_Books_about_Palestine

Take a look there. It's not just all hate for Israel. There are poets listed. You could also search for Palestinian musicians and artists. Take your time.

I was reluctant to mention Khalil Jibran in my earlier responses to your racist hate, because he was Lebanese or Syrian, not Palestinian. However, in view of

there is no such thing as a “palestinian”, merely Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese and Jordanians who were abandoned in “palestine,”
 

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Given the military and financial strength of the Zionist enterprise and it's control of the US media and Congress, with all the diplomatic, financial and military power that implies, that the Palestinians are continuing to resist is quite an accomplishment. And with BDS making significant inroads with israeli trading partners in Europe the game is changing. And not in favor of israel.

GroundhogObserver gets an A+. He or she presented Nazi propaganda themes to perfection. "Superior races" must stick together it would seem. EAH only gets an A.

Replies: @GroundhogObserver

If every “palestinian” in the world died tomorrow, the world will have lost…nothing. No symphonies lost, no great novels lost, no world-changing inventions lost. But look at you, working yourself into a lather to defend that human detritus.
 

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{ If every “palestinian” in the world died tomorrow, the world will have lost…nothing. No symphonies lost, no great novels lost, no world-changing inventions lost}

That is really low.
By your logic, Nazis should have been allowed to exterminate all the Jews, right ?
Since Nazi German scientists created some of the technological breakthroughs that are used today by everyone: jet engine, rockets,…
If the 1000 year Reich was allowed to exist, imagine all the technological wonders we'd be enjoying today.

{ Contrast with Israel, who makes significant contributions to the world economy, technology and culture.}

There is no doubt that Israel is technologically advanced.
But to compare contributions/creations of Israeli Jews vs Palestinians living in open air prisons of Gaza and West Bank is desperate.
Israel benefits from about $10 billion in transfers from US annually.
Israel borrows, copies, steals technology developed in US that costs US taxpayers 10s of billions annually.
So how well would Israel do without the massive support from US.

Israel tried to develop their own jet fighter, the Lavi.
Even with massive US-taxpayer financing of the project, the Israeli pride&joy went up like a lead balloon.
The useless Iron Dome, which Israel keeps boasting about, is a copy US Patriot.

About a million Jews emigrated from USSR to Israel.
Amongst those were 10s of 1000s of high caliber engineers, scientists, etc.
Ready made, highly educated talent: educated at the expense of Soviet taxpayers.
With all its economic faults, USSR’s education system was world class.

And Jewish intellectuals have done well in Western societies, _because_ of Western (Christian) societies.
How many world class Jewish intellectuals have been produced by Jewish communities residing for generations in Muslim majority countries (…Iran, Turkey, etc).

And, again, by your own logic: if Israel disappeared tomorrow - which I do not wish - its contributions to world economy would not even be a blip.
Nobody would care.
Some other country would fill the tiny economic void.

Replies: @Sherman, @GroundhogObserver

"Historian Salo Baron has noted that an immensely disproportionate number of Jews joined the new Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka... "Anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka," wrote Jewish historian Leonard Schapiro, "stood a very good chance of finding himself confronted with, and possibly shot by, a Jewish investigator." In Ukraine, "Jews made up nearly 80 percent of the rank-and-file Cheka agents," reports W. Bruce Lincoln, an American professor of Russian history. Beginning as the Cheka (or Vecheka) the Soviet secret police was later known as the GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MVD and KGB. In light of all this, it should not be surprising that Yakov M. Yurovksy, the leader of the Bolshevik squad that carried out the murder of the Tsar and his family, was Jewish, as was Sverdlov, the Soviet chief who co-signed Lenin's execution order." http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html

Any questions about anti-Semitism in Ukraine? By the way, check the careers of those Jews that had emigrated to Israel and the US from the USSR; many of them had excellent jobs in the USSR, often the leading positions in sciences and industries - despite the constant wailing about the alleged discrimination agains Jews there. Do you know the names and ethnicity of the leading oligarchs in Russia and Ukraine today? Does the name Kolomojsky ring anything for you? Perhaps, in relation to financing the neo-Nazis in Ukraine? Or maybe re his recent heist of $1.8 billion dollars intended for helping the ordinary people in the neocon-ravaged Ukraine?

You live in a house of glass. Until very recently, the rather homogenous Soviet society was reluctant to discuss the disproportionate number of Jews in the first Bolshevik government and secret police. But the times are changing. Solzhenitsyn, an honest historian wrote a book, "Two hundred years together," where he documented the contribution of the Jewish population to Russian civilization. This book was banished by the US publishers. Do you have any idea why?
There were the truly outstanding scientists, engineers, and artists of Jewish descent in the USSR, but along with the best a brightest, there was also the worst scum like the sadistic leaders of the Soviet secret police and such unbelievable monster as Ms. Zemlyachka (Rozalia Zalkind), one of the leaders of Red Terror: https://enigmachannel.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/the-worlds-most-evil-woman/

Your hymns to the Jewish genius do not take into account a simple fact: There were no great scientific and artistic achievements by the ancient Israelis (in part because the ancient state of Israel had a minuscule duration). All the universally-revered accomplishments by the people of Jewish descent have been due, to some extend, to other peoples' civilizations.

“But there’s a special kind of stupidity required to not know who the “Palestinians” are, where they came from, and what violent actions they have been engaged in. ”

Unbelievable – the nerve of these Jews – this evil tribe of squatters steal people’s land and then blame them when they fight back. The Jews have the nerve to call their victims wrong for objecting. Good god, what moral garbage these Jews are.

These Palestinians have lived there for thousands of years – in that time, they have been ruled a dozen different occupiers. The difference between the other rulers and the Jews is that only the Jews have thrown them out of their homes in mass.

After all that they have done to the Palestinian people how can anyone in good conscience respect a Jew?