© UnknownJake Javanshir
I was born in a Jewish family in Iran. In 1950 my family emigrated to Israel, due to Zionist propaganda "To come to the land of milk and honey", (it turned out to be the land of discrimination instead). Last June, I went to Israel for 10 days, (mostly because my sister and two brothers kept asking me to). They with their children and grand children live in the central area of Israel, in a few thriving towns and cities, which 50 to 100 years ago either were not there or were simple villages.
As one lands in the huge and modern airport and drives out, one can feel and see the riches overall. From roads, boulevards, villas, high rise buildings, shops and malls, (including country clubs), with many villas and condos priced over a million dollars.
An extreme example, units in a new high rise building in Tel-Aviv are priced for the equivalent of between seven to twenty million Canadian dollars. Of course this is not the same in all areas of the country, but it is reflective of the overall situation and how prosperous the country is.
Needless to say that this is not the same in the Israeli Palestinian towns I visited such as Acre and the Palestinian part of Nazareth, where neglect is visible.
Comment: US has a choice: No sanctions and delivery of oil...or, Yes sanctions and Gulf Coast oil imports drop to zero as the crude is exported to Russia and China. Perhaps Venezuela, at least temporarily, has an ace in the game.