Brain Drain: The New Israeli Diaspora -
The Land-grabbing Neo-cons And Racists, Haters And
Religious Nuts
29 December 2012By Jane Stillwater
I recently went to a showing of an excellent British
mini-series called "The Promise"
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/
the-promise/articles/video- the-promise-trail. Filmed
in Israel, it depicts the struggles of one brave
English soldier at the end of the British Mandate
period -- as he futilely tries to save the lives of
his Palestinian friends and fellow-soldiers during the
violent and pitiless 1948 takeover of the Holy Land by
Zionist thugs.
During this movie, I cried a lot.
And after the film was over and refreshments were
being served ("Never turn down free food," is my
motto!), I had an interesting conversation with some
guy who currently works down in Silicon Valley.
"You know," he said, "things are changing rapidly in
Israel right now."
"You mean that it's no longer the same-old same-old
there any more? With Israeli neo-cons trying to pass
themselves off as pious Jews while happily committing
mass murder and partying all night in Tel Aviv -- and
Christians and Muslims constantly getting beat up and
shot at for the crime of making olive oil while
Palestinian?" http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Cq2MpG4gQgk
By this time I had become rather cynical about Israeli
neo-con mercenaries and land-grabbers -- almost as
cynical as I've become about the neo-con mercenaries
and land-grabbers here in America too.
"Well, of course there's still that," the techie guy
replied, "but something else is happening in Israel
now as well. People have started to leave there en
masse. And not just the usual ones either -- not just
the poor abused Palestinians still trying to sneak
over the border into Jordan or Egypt. And not the
discriminated-against Sephardi Jews either, at the
very bottom of the Israeli social pecking order, last
hired and first fired, who you wouldn't want dating
your daughter." http://www.mayacafe.com/forum/
topic1sp.php3?tkey=1237163771
"Then who?"
"The technological elite in general are now leaving in
large numbers. And formerly-Russian tech experts in
particular are leaving as fast as they can."
Interesting. Hmmm.
"Are you talking about the kind of people referred to
in all those Israeli-sponsored subway ads," I replied,
"bragging that Israelis have invented thus-and-so hot
new gadget or found a cure for this or that horrendous
disease? Those are the ones that are leaving?"
"Like rats from a sinking ship." I guess no one with
any brains wants to keep living in a country where its
leaders are always either declaring war, waging war or
industriously hunting for a new war to declare.
"This new brain-drain is actually happening right now
-- and pretty soon all the people who will be left
living in Israel will be the hotel maids, the IDF
hard-liners, the land-grabbing neo-cons and racists,
haters and religious nuts." Good grief. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
article33005.htm
"You have to understand that much of the current
Israeli scientific community had originally immigrated
to Israel from Russia in order to get away from all
the persecution, corruption, wars, lack of civil
rights and poverty that existed there before, during
and after the breakup of the old USSR." And from the
winters of course.
"Many of these Russian immigrants were not even Jews.
They were gentiles who just wanted to get out. And,
once in Israel, they discovered that it wasn't the
land of milk and honey that they had expected. And so
now they are leaving Israel also, moving on."
"Where to?"
"Here."
PS: I'm currently in the middle of reading Jimmy
Carter's fascinating memoir, "White House Diary". Good
grief! If only we had elected Carter for another four
years instead of that lying skunk Reagan, America
would be in so much better shape right now. For
instance, the whole world loved Jimmy for his heroic
stands on civil rights, which gave the United States
even more love, sympathy and cachet back then than
we've ever had since, even on the day after 9-11
(before Bush bungled it).
And Carter didn't "give away" the Panama Canal either.
He traded it for the whole world's good will and to
make up for what Nixon, Kissinger and the CIA had done
to Chile, Argentina, etc. Back then, Carter could go
into almost any country on the planet and get a
standing ovation -- while Nixon, Reagan and both
Bushes only got rotten tomatoes.
Plus if we had listened to Carter back in the day,
perhaps global warming, 9-11, Hurricane Sandy and Karl
Rove also might have been avoided!
And if only we had listened to Carter back when he
warned us again and again about how Israeli neo-cons
spoke with forked-tongues. And they still do. And now
we've got a whole new crop of neo-con serpents all of
our own here in America as well! Plus now various
neo-con Red States are actually threatening to secede.
Ah, if only they WOULD. Just think of all the money
the rest of us would save.
Can't you just picture Arkansas out spending billions
of dollars on its 800-odd military bases around the
world or dealing with the Benghazi crisis? Or Alabama
supplying Israel with F16s, cluster bombs and white
phosphorus? Or South Carolina scaring China into
adjusting its trade deficit? Or oil-depleted Texas
trying to intimidate OPEC, Iran, Kuwait, Iraq,
Venezuela and the Saudis? Or Tennessee happily trying
to tell Putin or even North Korea to go to hell?
Now that I think about it, secession could actually be
the final key to finally putting an end to America's
"endless wars".
Maybe Lincoln should never have tried to save the
Union after all -- except for perhaps New Orleans and
Nashville.
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