Just so you know, this sounds a lot like classic european anti-semitism.
And isn't the point of govs to take care of their own people? Otherwise rich countries should right now start spending their money on solving poor countries issues, like lack of a working healthcare system.
I hate so see how US looks at the wars it is fighting: it doesn't matter that they kill 100000 people, but the 100 Americans that died are so much more important just because they were born in a rich country.
We are all on the same planet together, and tribalism is already stopping us from limiting ourselves from using more resources that the planet can provide.
Having spent a considerable length of time in some of those countries, some of it volunteering, I seriously doubt this is true in general.
It‘s typically a problem of productivity (producing low value goods), corruption, education, technology transfer, culture and so on.
It would be nice to have a simple unifying theory but I doubt it exists.
> I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.
What he meant is that while communism works in a family because the incentives are aligned, it doesn't work at society level.
-Israel is an apartheid state.
-You fucking nazi!
But to answer your question: There are a TON of antisemitic people in the world, but they know they can't talk that way, so they pretend that are "anti-Israel" instead. Most people can see right through that, some can't.
This doesn't happen to other countries, so the situation with Israel is unique.