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“This is a government that will not be able to make decisions on anything — on the peace process, on equal sharing of the burden or on budgetary matters,” Emmanuel Rosen, a prominent television analyst, said early Wednesday on Channel 10. “The next elections are already on the horizon.” New York Times
All the cliches about Israel come to mind here: two Israelis mean three opinions, or the land of a hundred ghettos. In fact what you have is one of the west’s most unequal societies, a collective of people who range from what is left of the founding Zionist families, on through opportunistic Russian money launderers, to Yemenite and Moroccan sub-proletarians, none of them particularly religious, all seasoned with mostly American Haredim that “sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them”… nor serveth they in the Israeli armed forces, neither payeth they taxes either, by the way.
All of this mishmash directly connected to the masculine attributes of the US Congress.
I lived in Tel Aviv for a year and I loved the place, a sexy Mediterranean climate and beach filled with some of the world’s most attractive women, all with the energy of New York. I had to go to Jerusalem almost every other day (I was a budding paparazzo)… horrible place, filled with priests and rabbis and soldiers with guns. And I came to the following conclusion: If the Arabs ever declared peace on the Israelis and left them strictly alone, with no external enemies, the country would tear itself apart in civil strife and probably disappear in a very short time. All that is holding them together are their enemies…
They would be crazy to want peace.
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Many American Jews have told me the same thing: if the Arabs want to get rid of the Israelis, leave them alone and they’ll kill each other. I always thought they were joking. I guess it’s also true that no joke lacks an element of truth; otherwise it wouldn’t be funny.
I didn’t realize how true that was until now.
Kind of makes me wonder what would happen in this country if it stopped all it’s military adventurism.
Oh and something in this diary is mucking up the style sheet and formatting.
I was there when it was still a socialist-kibbutz country, long before the Russians and the American “settlers”, both of whom all seem to be fascists came along. I have the nicest memories of Tel Aviv, I had a fantastic girl friend and was much in love, all her friends were mine… at that time you could say I was a “friend of Israel”… I began to sour during the Intifadas and now I think Israel is a moral and physical death trap for the Jewish people. Saying so got me canned from Daily Kos.
Well you have that in your favor.
The irony being that the persons that most strongly objected in the beginning to Israel’s founding (by secular Socialists) were of course the hardcore religious conservative types, who held that Israel could only come to be reborn when the Messiah came — and since they don’t count Jesus as the Messiah, he ain’t shown up yet.
But of course, once it was a fait accompli, they were all too happy to start taking it over.
Heh! I’ve been at Daily Kos since six months after its founding (UID in the low 3000s), yet I almost got kicked off for insisting to link to proof that the Obamabots were working to game the DK ratings system against people they didn’t like.
DK used to be daily, sometimes hourly, reading for me. That hasn’t been the case for five years now.
Not sure why I never got canned there, especially after writing this diary during Op Cast Lead. I even wrote a series very critical of the great
OzKos in 2007 and 2008, and didn’t get canned.Looks like Netanyahu might squeal out a coalition. How long it will last is another matter, though.