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

I used to work on Wall St. with a salesman who was very successful selling software that didn't exist except in rudimentary form. When I asked him how he managed to pull this off, how the clients couldn't detect his ruse, he said, "We show them what we want to show them." In other words, it was sleight of hand. Show them a bit of this, a bit that, talk real fast, sound credible, pat them on the back, and you got a sale. Then he'd hand over the account to the onboarding people who would be under insane pressure to deliver something. There was disappointment on all sides, except that he was happy that he made a sale. Note, this was at a company that won awards for being a great place to work. Such a sham. So, too, aliyah pushers, try to give the impression that SSOI is just busting with the world's greatest technology. After all, it's a country full of Jews, and Jews have won 1/4 of all Nobel prizes (178 ). However, that statistic doesn't apply to Israel...

The Pope once was told, asked to recognize Israel. And the Jewish argument was we are a state. So, he said if you are state so act like a state and we will recognize you. Now imagine my tzuris – I have to side with the Pope. But I agree with him. You cannot have even in this wild crazy world, you cannot have a state behaving so rowdily like Israel. And it’s not a state. Again, and again, it’s a garrison. It’s a garrison.   [Holocaust survivor Maryla (nee Husyt) Finkelstein, Interview on Democracy Now, youtube,  v=yUb61jengn0>. ] I was amazed at the sea of green that I saw when I first arrived in the secular state of israel (SSOI). Outside of the Haredi areas, it's all soldiers. At first I thought, that's how much they hate us, that we have to put the entire youth in uniform. Now I see it as the state religion and a byproduct of their aggressive outlook on everything. We start up with everybody and wind up with an entire generation in uniform. You could say it's a result ...