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

I would not have imagined that I'd share an article written by an Israeli general, but the man makes sense here and shows also what a crazy society this is. You were told that Israelis are practical and clever. Behold here what shallow, sheepish fools they are. And also, behold here how little they care about each individual soldier, despite what you were told all these years. ------------------- I will try here to address mainly the public that behaves like a dumb herd, its feet stuck deep in the swamp and its eyes incapable of seeing one meter ahead. It is living the moment, cheering and saluting blindly at local successes that unfortunately do not change the bitter direction in which we are headed in the near and distant future, and is giving the government and its leader the support to lead the citizens of Israel into a dead end, like so many sheep following the bellwether. This group of cursing loudmouths will be the first to raise the white flag when it realizes its situation...

After ten years in Israel, I conclude Israel is for Israelis. If you grew up here, if you have family here, if all your childhood memories are from here, if you speak fluent Hebrew, if you have an Israeli mentality (and we all know what that means), if you have just the right connections to help you earn a parnassah here, if you can deal with three years of servitude in the military, you can live in Israel. Perhaps if you are a crazed Zionist, have totally been taken in the Zionist story line, you are very aggressive, believe that the Israeli government is always right in whatever it does, and speak fluent Hebrew, then you also can come. But don't come here just because "you support Israel," whatever that means, or because you "always wanted to live here," in some vague way, or because you liked it here when you stayed in your American seminary for a year. Imagine a woman from Montanna, who likes musical theater. She saw Guys and Dolls at the local high school. ...

  Looking around my apartment, here are the items that still function: the tall bookshelves, the couch, the short bookshelf, the transformer, the white telephone, a smoke alarm, plastic draws, the china closet, a bag to carry stuff. What do they have in common? They were all purchased in the USA. Here's what is falling apart: the standing closets in every room, the black bookshelves, the kitchen cabinets, the black phones, both pairs of pants, the smoke alarm, plastic draws, a bag to carry stuff. What do they have in common? All purchased in the SSOI. All the modern conveniences? The evidence says otherwise.

Boarding the bus to Romema the driver shouts that it's a school bus. It isn't technically a school bus. It's a public bus, an Egged bus, with a number on it. The number was 99 or something like that. Evidently, the bus company was using it as a school bus. That's fine, but there was no indication as such on the outside of the bus. And the driver, rather than saying calmly, "Sorry sir, this bus is for kids only," he shouts as if you just committed a crime by boarding a public bus. This goes on in Israel all the time. It's how people 'communicate.' Indeed, a second bus came, this time it was empty and the bus stop was empty too. So when the door opened I asked, "Is this a school bus?" And the driver responded with shouting again. The anger here and the lack of respect for people, the absence of patience and sympathy for a fellow human is depressing. It makes for ugly encounters all day long.  And the kids grow up with this. It affects every...

  "וְהָעִנְיָן הַשְּׁלִישִׁי מָה שֶׁהוּא נִרְאֶה מֵחֻלְשַׁת תַּחְבּוּלוֹתָיו כְּשֶׁיֶּחְסַר כֹּחַ הַדִּבּוּר אֲשֶׁר נָתַן לוֹ הַבּוֹרֵא יִתְרוֹן עַל שְׁאָר הַחַיִּים שֶׁאֵינָם מְדַבְּרִים לִמְאֹרָע שֶׁאֵרַע בְּמוֹחוֹ כִּי בָּעֵת הַהִיא יִהְיֶה נַעֲוֶה וְנִתְעֶה מִשְּׁאָר בע״ח וְאֶפְשָׁר שֶׁיַּשְׁחִית עַצְמוֹ בִּשְׁחִיתוֹת וּבִתְמוּתוֹת וְנִמְצָא רֹב בע״ח שֶׁיֵּשׁ לָהֶם מִן הַהַכָּרָה בְּדַרְכֵי טוֹבָתָם וְהַתַּחְבּוּלָה בְּהַשָּׂגַת מְזוֹנוֹתָם מָה שֶׁמְּקַצְּרִים רַבִּים מִן הַמַּשְׂכִּילִים שֶׁבִּבְנֵי אָדָם מִכְּמוֹתָם כ״ש מִי שֶׁיִּפָּקֵד שִׂכְלוֹ מֵהֶם." [חובות הלבבות, שער שלישי - שער עבודת האלוהים, הקדמה] הציונות מייצרת סוג של פגיעה מוחית שהופכת את היהודים לחסרי שכל. “In respect to a human being's incompetence when, due to a brain injury, he loses the rational faculty which G-d bestowed upon him and which constitutes his superiority to the other creatures that are irrational. For at such times he is stupider and more senseless than other animals. He may inflict seri...

  I just ran into a friend in Meah Shearim. American guy. Very sweet fellow. Well, the Israel police tried to beat him to death. He was standing near a monthly march against the state. It's a peaceful march in the heart of Meah Shearim. They don't even block traffic. It's a few dozen guys in long coats. They walk down the street for around 15 minutes. He wasn't part of the protest. He was just outside as it passed. Two undercover police thugs grabbed him, threw him to the floor, and slammed a shielded knee into his side so hard that he couldn't sleep on his side for months. They handcuffed him as one said, take him to the room. They dragged him to a room that they seemed to know about and proceeded to try to beat him to death with kicks to the head. His head was covered in blood. The tallis that he was wearing wrapped around his mouth and he couldn't breathe. He told them so but they kept beating him. So this was not a case of a violent arrest that got out of ha...

  Ofer Cassif  ( Hebrew :  עֹופֶר כַּסִיף , born 25 December 1964) [ 1 ]  is an  Israeli  politician who has represented  Hadash  in the  Knesset  since April 2019. Domestic media sources have referred to him as " far-left" . [ 2 ]  He provoked domestic controversy in 2024 for his acceptance of the legitimacy of charges of  genocide  made against the  current Government of Israel  before the  International Court of Justice . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]  This led to a six-month suspension from the Knesset on 7 November 2024, [ 7 ]  one of the most severe parliamentary sanctions imposed in recent years. [ 8 ] Suspended for having an opinion? That's not democracy. Whatever your opinion about the conflict with Gaza, you should be able to deliver it, especially in the government legislative house.  "When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals." Edward Snowde...

 …the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, published a piece, or had a farbrengen and they published it in which he said that Eretz Yisroel is wherever you make it. In other words, 770 is our Eretz Yisroel. And therefore, in Chabad ideology, there’s no need to go on Aliyah. If you are already living in the land of Israel, you are not supposed to leave. And it is the Holy Land, but there’s no notion of Aliyah not only obviously as an obligation but even as something that you should strive for, something beneficial because as the Lubavitcher Rebbe said, to Menachem Mendel, this is our Eretz Yisroel. Wherever you make Torah, wherever you create a Torah environment that’s Eretz Yisroel. Dr. Marc Shapiro, “Shapiro-Rav Shlomo Yosef Zevin-Part 2.mp3,” 3:04, Torah In Motion.  

  This is a typical photo from the lying liars at Nefesh b'Nefesh, giving you the impression that you'll live in Israel in new and modern apartments on lovely streets. So I took a walk down a street today and what I found was junk and disrepair everywhere. I didn't walk around looking for broken brick, pipes, or electric cabinets. I just walked down one typical street in a development that's only 15 years old. Here's what I saw: And in the parking lot of a building in the building Mind you, this isn't one of the really beat cities like Beer Sheva, Rishon L'tzion, or many parts of Tel Aviv. This is a newer Anglo city. This is what you'll see and be forced to live with on a typical street.