But he warned against this tendency, saying that Israeli society's unwillingness to sacrifice some of its standard of living to acquire better defenses against less concrete and immediate threats could be destructive.
Israeli society sees a notable unwillingness to sacrifice some of its standard of living.
He tells this story in a rather different way from the history of ETS, with an emphasis on the role of some activists, lawyers and others, who entered college and university at a time when meritocratic considerations were not yet affected in a major way by racial considerations, and when a number of young Japanese- and Chinese-Americans had opportunities to attend elite schools they would probably have not been able to in the pre-meritocratic age.