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Duh?

"I've always wanted to live in Israel."

"Really? Sounds like a rough place to live. Have you been there?"

"Oh, yes, I spend a year in seminary, in Jerusalem."

"Oh did you meet many Israelis?"

"Actually my classmates were from America and England. One from Canada."

"What about your teachers?"

"Also from those places." 

"Did you work?"

"No, just studied and went on a few trips, went to restaurants."

"How'd you pay for it?"

"My parents paid. They own a business in Miami."

"What did you do for healthcare?"

"I was twenty. I didn't get sick."

"I hear everyone in Israel must go to the army."

"Not us. We weren't citizens. We just stayed in the school most of the time. But I loved it there. I want to move there."

"Sorry to intrude, but if you didn't go to Israeli schools or work there, if you didn't do their mandatory three years in the army which often involves combat or making arrests, if your classmates and teachers were all Anglos, if your parents from America paid for everything, then what do you actually know about living in that place?"

"It's the Jewish homeland. I belong there. I really want to live there."




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