So what have you been told about Israel? Bookstores on every corner. Vibrant democracy. Thriving economy. People with a work home balance. People who are there when you need them. A government that cares. Rich community life. Good medical care and schools.
I was told all that too. And I may be undergoing a very expensive lesson in reality to find that none of it is true.
It isn't only the Duma torture incident that taught me. It's six months looking for a bookstore, trying to find someone with whom to talk politics, commuting 2.5 hours to work each way every day to battle with highly driven work obsessed hyper-critical difficult people, and struggling with a sub-par medical system. Also six months dealing with impatient, unhelpful, uncaring, rude, abrasive, arrogant Israelis - with a few exceptions.
But Duma certainly helped to show me how utterly dishonest are the leaders of Israel. They want us to believe it's necessary to torture Jewish teenage boys for a month because the boys plan to take over the country.
All this tells you is the the PM and his buddies lie so often that they don't even know how absurd they sound anymore. All it tells you is that they are so used to inflicting unnecessary violence on the world that they don't even notice it anymore.
In short, their credibility has been reduced to zero in my mind.
It doesn't leave a person with much. If you are in America, stay put. You'll lose in every way by coming here. There are so many lies floating around this place, and they are woven by such expert liars that you'll suffer long and hard before you unwind it all. Don't put yourself through it.
I was told all that too. And I may be undergoing a very expensive lesson in reality to find that none of it is true.
It isn't only the Duma torture incident that taught me. It's six months looking for a bookstore, trying to find someone with whom to talk politics, commuting 2.5 hours to work each way every day to battle with highly driven work obsessed hyper-critical difficult people, and struggling with a sub-par medical system. Also six months dealing with impatient, unhelpful, uncaring, rude, abrasive, arrogant Israelis - with a few exceptions.
But Duma certainly helped to show me how utterly dishonest are the leaders of Israel. They want us to believe it's necessary to torture Jewish teenage boys for a month because the boys plan to take over the country.
All this tells you is the the PM and his buddies lie so often that they don't even know how absurd they sound anymore. All it tells you is that they are so used to inflicting unnecessary violence on the world that they don't even notice it anymore.
In short, their credibility has been reduced to zero in my mind.
It doesn't leave a person with much. If you are in America, stay put. You'll lose in every way by coming here. There are so many lies floating around this place, and they are woven by such expert liars that you'll suffer long and hard before you unwind it all. Don't put yourself through it.
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