Sarid: Nothing in Israel to be proud of anymore
Yossi Sarid, the former Knesset member, writes about the violence overtaking Israel in a piece in Ha'aretz titled "Nothing in Israel to be proud of anymore":
You may not have noticed something while you slept: This country has become hell, into which not only sinners - but also the innocent - may be cast at any moment. This is not to say that Israelis are tarred and feathered more than the citizens of many other countries, but that Israel is insufferably violent and that there is no longer anything to be proud of; only to be ashamed, if not to despair.
I still remember my days at New York University. How we would lord it over the "locals" - in Israel that could not happen, we would say to our hosts as we looked, pained, at the daily, blood-curdling manifestations of violence. In Israel, we told them, little children can go around alone and nothing bad will happen to them. Meanwhile, things have gone the other way: Tel Aviv today is more like New York of yesterday, and even like pathological, legendary Chicago...Sometimes one has the impression that violence in this county is also undergoing privatization. The state no longer has a monopoly over the use of force. We meet violence everywhere: in the army, schools, hospitals, publicly, privately, driving and parking. And when the state is deprived of its singular status as enforcer, it also becomes a victim; it loses the faith of its citizens and remains a hollow frame. What a country.
Full column here.
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Yossi Sarid is a LIFELONG FOOL!
Like all LEFTISTS, he suffers from complete Delusional COGNITIVE DISSONANCE and is a Public JOKE in Israel,NEVER on his own people’s side.
Maybe Mr. Sarid would feel better if young Jewish men walked into each others synagogues and blew themselves up?
Or maybe if Jewish families murdered their daughters for misbehaving?
What about if the life expectancy of men was 59, like that worker’s paradise in Russia?
What about if everyone was worried about a civil war after the president died, like in Egypt?
I think living in a country where anyone can write whatever they want and most people live in nice homes and eat good food has fried a few of his brain cells.
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Fred
08/17/09 04:04 PM
How Pathetic Yossi Sarid is. Is it really true that there is nothing to be proud of in Israel? Is Israeli society ruined because some dejected Israeli Arabs youths go on a rampage and murder an innocent man on the beach? Are these youths a reflection of Israeli Society- of Israeli Arab Society as whole? Of course not! That some radical element shot up a Centre for Gay Youth- does that reflect upon society as whole. Of course not. So who is Yossi Sarid to judge and condemn Israeli society- which by all accounts- is incredibly vibrant, incedibly tolerant, incredibly educated and for the most part to be envied and admired. Yossi Sarid- shut up already.