בס׳ד

"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



22 Jun 2017

Double standard at play?

Parashat Korah: The Flowers and the Fruit

Newsweek has published an article titled TEL AVIV DIARY: WHY IS ISRAEL SO CORRUPT?

After reading the title I asked myself whether Newsweek has the same question about any other country and I see that someone commented about that at the end of the article.

Where's his report on the corruption in all the Arab/Muslim countries, the current and former Soviet block countries, and the various dictatorships across the planet. Or this this just another case of the double standard at play, where Israel is helped to standards that are not applied to anyone else?

Below is an excerpt from another comment.

Yet according to Transparency International Israel ranks fairly low in the corruption scale - ranked the 28th least corrupt country out of 176 countries. Schulman does not reference any of the intensive studies done by Transparency International, the OECD or other credible bodies...

Extra virgin olive oil staves off Alzheimer's, preserves memory, new study shows

Science and Scientism

No comments:

Post a Comment