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Catching Up with the Israelis

My expectation when I came to Israel was that I'd never catch up with Israelis on knowledge of the country's history vis a vis the conflict with the Arabs. Being new to any subject, it takes time to get a grounding. On top of that, the history of the State of Israel, has to be more complex than most places even if the time period is way shorter. On top of that, it's a country full of Jews and aren't most Jews intelligent and informed?

Well, I think it took me about a year and half to find that I caught up. That's not to say that it took me a year and a half to catch up. I believe I did that in a few weeks. I just didn't know it for a year and a half because it was at that time that I had spoken to enough Israelis that knew so little about anything that I felt safe in concluding that indeed they are as ignorant as sin over here.

Not that Americans are any better, but Americans are pretty bad. Go watch the Mark Dice videos for a demonstration.

I'm talking even about educated Israelis. They don't have a clue. I have only met one that has ever heard of the New Historians, Benny Morris, Illan Pape, Shlomo Ben Ami.

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