[lbo-talk] Israelis want a second passport

[David Green]

The same State of Israel which has been pushing the US, through its domestic 
lobbying tentacle, AIPAC, to attack Iran for reasons of national security? What 
is going on here? Same thing that’s always going on. The rich are getting 
richer, even while they’re preparing their escapes: 100,000 Israelis hold German 
passports, with 7,000 more procuring them every year. Gideon Levy comments, “The 
foreign passport has become an insurance policy against a rainy day. It turns 
out there are more and more Israelis who are thinking that day may eventually 
come,” a day which they hasten every time they leave it to the radicals to join 
the non-violent protests in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that are one of the 
more promising routes to avoid regional disaster.
 
But then Levy oddly comments: “If we had a leadership worthy of the name, one 
that instead of sowing anxieties did something to reduce them, and instead of 
terrifying us instilled hopes in us, then the lines at the German Embassy would 
have become shorter long ago.” Who does he think is voting for the governments 
that create a climate of fear so as to continue Israeli militarized 
accumulation? Who does he think are the constituencies of the “peace” parties 
that are miraculously never able to make peace? The same people sitting in the 
top 10 percent of Israeli society, the same ones procuring the passports to 
leave when the monster they’ve created sets off regional conflagration.
 
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