Why are Jews so powerful ?

Why are Jews so powerful? Dr Farrukh Saleem There are only 14 million Jews in the world; sevenmillion in the Americas, five million in Asia, twomillion in Europe and 100,000 in Africa. For everysingle Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims.

Yet,Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful thanall the Muslims put together. Ever wondered why? Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish.

Albert Einstein, themost influential scientist of all time and TIME magazine's 'Person of the Century', was a Jew. SigmundFreud -- id, ego, superego -- the father ofpsychoanalysis was a Jew.

So were Karl Marx, PaulSamuelson and Milton Friedman. Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual outputhas enriched the whole humanity: Benjamin Rubin gavehumanity the vaccinating needle. Jonas Salk developedthe first polio vaccine.

Alert Sabin developed theimproved live polio vaccine. Gertrude Elion gave us aleukaemia fighting drug. Baruch Blumberg developed thevaccination for Hepatitis B. Paul Ehrlich discovered atreatment for syphilis (a sexually transmitteddisease). Elie Metchnikoff won a Nobel Prize ininfectious diseases.

Bernard Katz won a Nobel Prize in neuromusculartransmission. Andrew Schally won a Nobel inendocrinology (disorders of the endocrine system;diabetes, hyperthyroidism). Aaron Beck foundedCognitive Therapy (psychotherapy to treat mentaldisorders, depression and phobias). Gregory Pincusdeveloped the first oral contraceptive pill.

GeorgeWald won a Nobel for furthering our understanding ofthe human eye. Stanley Cohen won a Nobel in embryology(study of embryos and their development). Willem Kolffcame up with the kidney dialysis machine. Over the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won15-dozen Nobel Prizes while only three Nobel Prizeshave been won by 1.4 billion Muslims (other than PeacePrizes). Why are Jews so powerful?

Stanley Mezor invented thefirst micro-processing chip. Leo Szilard developed thefirst nuclear chain reactor. Peter Schultz, opticalfibre cable; Charles Adler, traffic lights; BennoStrauss, Stainless steel; Isador Kisee, sound movies;Emile Berliner, telephone microphone and CharlesGinsburg, videotape recorder.

Famous financiers in the business world who belong toJewish faith include Ralph Lauren (Polo), LevisStrauss (Levi's Jeans), Howard Schultz (Starbuck's),Sergey Brin (Google), Michael Dell (Dell Computers),Larry Ellison (Oracle), Donna Karan (DKNY), IrvRobbins (Baskins & Robbins) and Bill Rosenberg (DunkinDonuts). Richard Levin, President of Yale University, is a Jew.So are Henry Kissinger (American secretary of state),Alan Greenspan (fed chairman under Reagan, Bush,Clinton and Bush), Joseph Lieberman, MadeleineAlbright (American secretary of state), CasperWeinberger (American secretary of defence), MaximLitvinov (USSR foreign Minister), David Marshal(Singapore's first chief minister), Issac Isaacs(governor-general of Australia), Benjamin Disraeli(British statesman and author), Yevgeny Primakov(Russian PM), Barry Goldwater, Jorge Sampaio(president of Portugal), John Deutsch (CIA director),Herb Gray (Canadian deputy PM), Pierre Mendes (FrenchPM), Michael Howard (British home secretary), BrunoKreisky (chancellor of Austria) and Robert Rubin(American secretary of treasury). In the media, famous Jews include Wolf Blitzer (CNN),Barbara Walters (ABC News), Eugene Meyer (WashingtonPost), Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chief Time),Katherine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post),Joseph Lelyyeld (Executive editor, The New YorkTimes), and Max Frankel (New York Times).

Can you name the most beneficent philanthropist in thehistory of the world? The name is George Soros, a Jew,who has so far donated a colossal $4 billion most ofwhich has gone as aid to scientists and universitiesaround the world. Second to George Soros is WalterAnnenberg, another Jew, who has built a hundredlibraries by donating an estimated $2 billion. At the Olympics, Mark Spitz set a record of sorts bywining seven gold medals. Lenny Krayzelburg is athree-time Olympic gold medalist. Spitz, Krayzelburgand Boris Becker are all Jewish. Did you know that Harrison Ford, George Burns, TonyCurtis, Charles Bronson, Sandra Bullock, BillyCrystal, Woody Allen, Paul Newman, Peter Sellers,Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Ben Kingsley, KirkDouglas, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, William Shatner,Jerry Lewis and Peter Falk are all Jewish? As a matterof fact, Hollywood itself was founded by a Jew.

Among directors and producers, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks,Oliver Stone, Aaron Spelling (Beverly Hills 90210),Neil Simon (The Odd Couple), Andrew Vaina (Rambo1/2/3), Michael Man (Starsky and Hutch), Milos Forman(One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), Douglas Fairbanks(The thief of Baghdad) and Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters)are all Jewish. To be certain, Washington is the capital that mattersand in Washington the lobby that matters is TheAmerican Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.Washington knows that if PM Ehud Olmert were todiscover that the earth is flat, AIPAC will make the109th Congress pass a resolution congratulating Olmerton his discovery. William James Sidis, with an IQ of 250-300, is thebrightest human who ever existed. Guess what faith didhe belong to?

So, why are Jews so powerful? Answer: Education.