From: horen@rs.com (Jonathan B. Horen)
Subject: Re: Should a jew settle in Israel?
Organization: Renaissance Software, Inc.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:01:19 PDT

In article <92241.203930EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu> <EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>I don't know if anyone has noticed, but there is a dual standard among Israelis
> (NOTE: I do NOT mean all, but definitely some).
>
>Consider this:  Jews all over the world abhor racism of any type, including whe
>n the definition of racism is broadened to include various religious and social
> groups.  They also approve of equal rights for all peoples regardless of sex,
>color, belief, etc. (at least I would like to think so).
>
>Then why is it that Jews are the priviledged few with COMPLETE (emphasis) right
>s in Israel?  Why are all others treated as minorities.  Or does some Jewish do
>ctrine, which I haven't heard of, say that Jews are above all others?

Uh-h-h, what's that you say? "COMPLETE" rights?? Tell me, khaboob, where in
Israel do you live -- Savayon? Neot Afeka? Kfar Shmaryahu? And to what "rights" are you referring? The right of an 18-year-old to spend 2 or 3 years in
full-time, mandatory military service? The right of an Israeli male to spend
30+ days each year in reserve military duty, until age 53? The right of a
child of either sex to (inevitably) miss their father-who-is-in-miluim just
when they need/want him the most?

Perhaps you mean the "right" to pay up to 54% of one's monthly salary in
income tax, without the "right" to file an income-tax return at the end of the
year (and perhaps get a refund)?

Or perhaps you mean the "right" to obtain a government-backed mortgage to
purchase an apartment (that is, if you and/or your spouse are ex/present drug
addicts, from Sephardi backgrounds, with many brothers and sisters, and have
many children)?

Or maybe, just maybe, you mean the "right" to pay 100% import duties on an
automobile, to pay 82% import duties on computer software, to pay 60% import
duties on computer hardware, ...?

Or could it be that you mean the "right" to travel on public transportation on
Shabbatot and Yomim-Tovim?

Or is it just that you are 21 years-old, find yourself away from home (Israel)
for the first time, on an American college campus with American Jews (and
goyim), and feel guilty about all the "rights" that every non-Israeli Jew and
crackpot Arabist-leftist claim you have (and those poor Palestinians don't).

Well, takhzik ma'amad. If nothing else, just remember how you have left *all*
those "rights" behind and placed yourself in the monastic environment of
Pennsylvania State University, and feel proud.

Oh, one more thing -- if you will post this (and any followups) to
talk.politics.mideast, you will find many fine comrades (like Yigal Arens) and
meet many fine foreigners (like Brendan Mckay, Jeremy Henderson, and Phill
Hallem-Baker) who will be more than happy to agree with you and do everything
they can to help you feel guiltier.

>Before anyone accuses me of anything, let it be known that I AM Israeli.

Me too! Mispar-zehut: 1-154064-8
		Mispar-ishi:  3073659

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