The messy and chaotic atmosphere that has permeated the election season in Israel has made it easy to overlook one simple fact – Israel’s neighbors are jealous of this very mess.
“We really envy the Israelis,” a veteran Palestinian journalist told Khaled Abu Toameh of the Jerusalem Post. “Our leaders don’t want elections. They want to remain in office forever.”
One of the quirks of an open society is that the ugly, messy stuff is always visible, and in an election season, there’s plenty of it to feed the media beast. We’ve seen it all this year, from racist attacks to outright lies to libelous accusations.
This is the price Israel pays for having an open society – its warts are always on display.
Spend enough time focusing on these warts and you’ll think the country is going to hell in a hand basket. Go on the Website of the New Israel Fund (NIF), an organization working for a “better Israel,” and you’ll read about “the inequality, injustice and extremism that diminish Israel.”
This article, by David Suissa, was originally published in the Jewish Journal. Read more »
You better open up the Mosaic Law (the First Five books of the Old Testament) and learn Who you are fighting against – the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.
Divrey Hayamim Bais 20:15 And he said, Pay heed ye, all Yehudah, and ye inhabitants of Yerushalayim, . . .; for the milchamah is not yours, but that of Elohim. Just as the USA has forsaken the Judea-Christian God of the Bible, so the apple of God’s eye, Israel, will be dealt with by Him in these last days.
Can someone explain the last paragraph above? Wasn’t it supposed to end on an optimistic note, about NIF working for a better Israel? Am I on the right website….?