And as far as voting is concerned, this is a rather meaningless ritual whose main purpose is to vent frustrations with the status quo rather than express support for a particular political party.
Wojtek
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:44 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> http://www.maxajl.com/?p=5400
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