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

 Tonight on the bus from Jerusalem, a ticket checker who had quite the anger problem. He screamed and screamed. Just when you though he might be done, he screamed some more. I should have filmed it, but I was too stunned to think of it. There were small children on the bus. There were women. Israelis like this, and there are many, have no concept of how to act around women and children. I have witnessed this many times. One time, I was in a yucky underground strip mall of tiny little stores and damp air, so common in Israel, and heard a man shouting for 1/2 an hour. He wouldn't stop. I finally walked over to see him howling at a man who was holding the hands of tiny children. Turns out that the screamer was the property manager and he was screaming at one of the tenants. Screaming and screaming. I said to him in Hebrew, My lord, enough, there are children here. Amazingly he stopped at that point. He probably stopped from exhaustion.  This ticket checker wouldn't stop. A Chassi...

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...

  Tell me, what is the future for your children in Israel when a 2 bedroom apartment costs $733,333? Where are they going to live when they are earning $2,000 a month if they are lucky?