Well here we have Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tightening the screws on Israel, linking support for a hard line on Iran to Israeli progress with the Palestinians. She says without progress on the Palestinian negotiations, the world would stop supporting containing the Iranian Nuclear program.
According to the Jpost: “For Israel to get the kind of strong support it is looking for vis-a-vis Iran, it can’t stay on the sidelines with respect to the Palestinians and the peace efforts. They go hand in hand,” Clinton told the House of Representatives.”
What drivel. If she hasn’t noticed, Iran is a problem for the west, not just Israel. Huge demographic changes in Europe, Asia, and more and more in the US, has fundamentalist Islam on the move. Wake up America but fundamentalist Islam doesn’t like your culture.
Wasn’t it former President Bill Clinton who used to say that his mother aways told him to do what’s right for Israel, and he will be blessed.
Well I guess Hillary didn’t listen to her mother in law.
There is an editorial piece in the Jpost today written by someone who is now moving back to the US, after giving up on living in Israel. I feel badly that his absorption didn’t go well, and that he feels the need to leave Israel, but I question the newsworthiness of this op-ed. After all, almost 20,000 new immigrants from North America have settled in Israel since he came, and the overwhelming majority of them are doing fine. Why not print an editorial about that?
His article is full of excuses. ” We’re lucky if there’s even one other English speaker in ulpan, making it hard to study and practice.” He wasn’t provided the tools to learn Hebrew, get a job…etc. no question that we live in an society that demands instant gratification, but give me a break. I never took classes to learn Hebrew. You learn a foreign language by immersing yourself in it. Not by some government sponsored course. I cleaned toilets in order to make enough money to pay the rent, and sometimes I took a job outside my realm of expertise in order to survive. I think that my story is very common for people who have come to live in Israel.
At the end of his article, he takes a pot-shot at Nefesh B’Nefesh, the organization that has revolutionized the entire Aliyah( immigration) process. If NBN is guilty of anything it’s that they have made it so easy to move to Israel, that many olim no longer get the full ‘Israeli’ experience. this is hardly a problem. To say that because of NBN less secular Jews will move to Israel, is not factually based. If secular Jews make up 40-50% of all new western immigrants, and immigration from North America is at record levels, than that means thousands and thousands of secular Jews are moving to Israel, out of choice, and also choosing to stay.
To the author, my deepest regrets that your absorption didn’t go the way you wished. To the Jpost, how about sticking to articles that have a bit more relevance to the general population. To potential western Olim, Israel is a great place to live!
