Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

  "Why was the Torah given to Israel? Because they are impetuous.... The laws of these are like fire, for had not the Law been given to Israel no nation or tongue could withstand them." Talmud, Beitzah, 25b

 Tonight on the bus from Jerusalem, we endured a ticket checker who had quite the anger problem. He screamed and screamed. It started with a guy who might not have paid. Sometimes, the problem is the card. I once boarded a bus in Jerusalem, swiped my card at least five times because I couldn't tell if it worked or not. You don't get a receipt and the machine screen is not readable. You are waiting for a beep. People are behind me waiting. The driver waved me on, so I went. A ticket checker came on and ran my card through his little machine and couldn't find proof of my paying. I explained that I had swiped it numerous times and the driver waved me on. Didn't matter. The drive didn't back me up. The checker made such a scene and did his best to embarrass me. He was clearly a former army guy. Aggressive, hard faced, muscular. There was such a cruelty to his style. He seemed so proud of himself that he caught a Haredi looking person. They hate us so much.  Sometimes th...

US-Israeli soldier dies by suicide in New York after returning from Gaza William Shakin, 25, a Golani Brigade infantryman, took part in ground operations inside Gaza and later suffered a rapid mental health collapse His family says combat-induced trauma proved too much to bear. -------------- This is one of numerous suicides. In many cases I am familiar with the families. The oleh kids are the most susceptible because Israelis are made of brillo pad and people from any normal society, which this isn't, cannot deal with them. The parents live in little Anglo bubbles in the apartments they bought with their American money. They don't deal with bullying Israel classmates, with screaming Israeli teachers, with howling Israeli bus drivers, with buses packed to the brim, and with howling and violent Israeli military commanders. They don't storm into Gaza to blow up houses and arrest doctors. The parents just love living in Israel because they don't live in Israel. They live i...

 My neighbors have had some grandchildren over recently. Here's where the children play, in the hallway, where they try to ride their little scooters and pull their wagons, in this 5 foot by 8 foot area.  Well I think it's fine Building jumbo planes Or taking a ride on a cosmic train Switch on summer from a slot machine Yes, get what you want to if you want 'Cause you can get anything I know we've come a long way We're changing day to day But tell me, where do the children play? Cat Stevens

  At the Navon train station in Israel, after you arrive in Israel from the airport, you get a taste of Israeli art and culture with this piano that is covered by stickers showing the faces of Israeli soldiers who have been killed. Welcome to the so-called geulah. The aliyniks see it as romantic that you die for their cause. 

  I have posts showing that the donations to the hospitals are ALL from people in chutz. Israelis either don't have money or don't donate. Aren't there Israeli billionaires? Well, they don't seem to donate any money which shouldn't be surprising. 

Last night I was driving back from the Jerusalem Zoo and made a wrong turn. It didn't take long but the view went from the Jerusalem that tourists extrapolate to be all of Israel to barbed wire, tall concrete  walls, and guard towers. They went on and on. I couldn't figure out where it was safe to turn around. I drove and drove past the dreariness. I felt as though I had entered a war zone. Indeed I had, and it's not hard to do in Israel, that tiny little land which is half desert and half Arab. I kept thinking, geulah? The Modern Orthodox people want to claim that this is geulah? We have been redeemed? Has Hershel Schachter seen the barbed wires and concrete walls? Or does he know only the express lane at the airport and the chauffeured ride to the upscale neighborhoods of Jerusalem where live the wealthy donors who earned their fortunes in chutzeh l'aretz?  He is not the only one. I meet many Modern Orthodox--let's call them Israel Orthodox--people who declare tha...