May be not. Britain, the USA, Russia, Holland are countries that are intrinsically very stable. Frigid Brits are excited by nothing, Russians with vodka will suffer eveything passively. The Dutch would never want to alarm the neighbors so there will be no panic. On the other extreme of the spectrum, Chinese are a very nervious, panic-stricken race. We Jews are the worst of all, living in a constant state of irrational fear and panic.
Israel is stable exactly for that reason: with a population that is extremely neurotic and given to panic, the main preoccupation of the Government has been to keep the people calm and to avoid panic. The Government is actively monitoring the degree of nerviousness of the population, and taking proactive steps to prevent the development of panic situations. Israeli government has become so experienced in this area that even out-and-out indiscriminate suicide bombing attack on the population during the Second Intifada, when buses and trains were empty (yet regular service was maintained), there was no panic and the country went on and the stock exchange raising (because of secret Bank of Israel manipulation). Even when Hizballah launched hundreds of rockets on population centers, there was no panic and eveybody went to work and prices were stable and there were no runs to get visas to foreign countries. The Israeli government has large emergency stores of everything and in the first sign of panic buying, it floods the shops. The strangest panic was the "rice panic" when the media said that India was buying up all the rice and soon there will be no rice. The shops were emptied of rice. People hoarded dozens of 20 kg sacks of rice. I too went to buy rice, although I had enough at home. In two days the shops were again fully supplied. We have an active mechanism to monitor and prevent panics, we are better equipped to manage panics than the rest of the world.
It is important to remember that wars are won not by physical force but because of panic. When an army is in panic, loses its will to fight and collapses. The main object of military maneuvering is to cause panic within the ranks of the enemy. We could cause such a panic in Gaza that the Arabs would evacuate it in 24 hours. But we wont do it, on the contrary, we want them calm and quiet.
Being as we are the masters of panic management, Israel is one of the stablest countries of the planet. Even during the last worldwide financial panic, when large American banks collapsed and Europe was devastated - nothing happened in Israel. We are not a world apart, onthe contrary, we live in the middle of the world nervous network, yet TASE was stable and the GNP did not fall like in the rest of the world.
The other side of the coin is that - like our military computer retirees at age 30 - our former military psy-op people are also filtering out to the wide world and applying their military expertise to psych off the markets to give up some juice. ("Twat" according to Wiki is a dumb person).
Comment: I wrote the above after reading an academic paper on the last worldwide financial crisis, which comes to confirm my own thesis about its cause and solution. If anyone cares to dig it up, BEFORE the crisis I calculated the outstanding dubious mortgages in the USA, and came up with the number of 300 billion US$. I reasoned that in a 12 TRILLION dollar economy as the USA, this is peanuts thrown to the monkeys in the zoo. The crisis developed because American regulations require banks to re-evaluate periodically their financial situation, and "toxic assets" could not be priced. So there were trillions of assets that contained in their mix 1 or 2% dubious mortgages that could not be priced, and uncertainty followed. There was a wholesale run on the banks, all caused by the American Government excessive demand for transparency and security. Yet banking cannot be done in the open, as banking systems are inherently insolvent. And it is most childish to demand total absolute security, when we know that only death will not fail to arrive, all the rest is conditional to God's will.
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