Message to Jews: Get out of Israel
Get out of there
Idan Ben-Barak, who lives in Australia, tells fellow Israelis it's time to leave Jewish State
They say that if you put a frog in a pot of lukewarm water and slowly heat up the water, the frog would not feel the gradual heating and be cooked without even attempting to jump out. For 60 years now we've been so scared of the Arabs – actually, why 60, 100 at least – that it's the only thing we see. All the rest is marginal.
Corruption? Road accidents? Pollution? Poverty? Who cares about this nonsense? Two Qassam rockets just landed in Sderot and Ahmadinejad again made some belligerent statements. We've got action. Who has the energy to deal with the small stuff? And meanwhile, the country is crumbling in our fingers. Slowly but surely.
We already got used to it: There's no minister who isn't facing a police investigation. Every police chief comes with a scandal and every IDF chief of staff is a failure. The universities are suffocating, while colleges are flourishing. Everyone is studying law and business management in order to learn about how to move money.
Anyone who's worth anything in science and technology goes abroad to pursue a career, because there are no research budgets in Israel. And let's say we're able to give rise to and even keep two or three brilliant minds here, what exactly are we going to do with all those ultra-Orthodox guys who study Torah instead of serving in the army or working? Who will keep Israel afloat in 15 years?
We tried to build a country that would be a safe place for the Jewish people and that will allow us to live there in peace. It didn't work out. It turns out we can't have it all. Perhaps it's something about the Jewish character, or perhaps it's the fact that we got stuck in the Middle East of all places, and maybe it's just bad luck.
Does anyone still believe in the IDF?
For a decade or two it seemed like it could work, but then we were proven wrong. Somewhere between the West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron, Bnei Braq, the security zone in Southern Lebanon, Shenkin St. in Tel Aviv, and upscale Caesarea, we lost our direction and the bastards took over. Now we no longer have the energy to change anything, we don't believe anyone; we're already tired.
Apparently, at the end they won't be taking over us with tanks. In two or three decades there will be no need for that apparently. And if they do attack, with ballistic missiles from Iran and Syrian Scud missiles, does anyone still believe that the IDF can handle it? After all, this is the same IDF that was unable to organize decent backpacks for every reservist in a war that we initiated on our own. The exact same IDF that has bee pulverizing Hamas and Hizbullah for 20 years now – and look how nicely pulverized they are.
The Palestinians are not playing ball either. We tried a nice approach? We got terror attacks. We hit them hard? We got terror attacks. We occupied? Terror attacks. Evacuated? Terror attacks. Once upon a time we thought we might be able to finalize some kind of a deal with them so that the buses stop exploding, but today we understand it will be like this forever.
Defeatist? Maybe. But any good poker player knows that a point comes where we need to give up, put the cards on the table, and say goodbye. A really good player knows how to do it when he still has money left for another round on another day. A not-so-good player will find himself going home after losing his pants, if he makes it home even. So do yourself a favor. Look closely at your cards, and think about how this round will be ending in your opinion.
Some readers may wonder whether I'm some kind of leftist, Arab-loving traitor who is unconcerned about making his contribution to the country. Have no worries, I already contributed, and not at the office. I did my military service in a combat unit, I was a career officer for a while, I did reserve service, I carried loads, I was stationed at roadblocks, I guarded, I screened, I navigated, I greased, I planted landmines, I patrolled, I ambushed, and I was fired at. I know Tul Karem and Hebron better than I know Hadera and Ramat Gan.
Second-hand Israeli in good condition
And by the way, they say that thing about the frog, but they're wrong. If you try to slyly cook a real frog, at some point it will feel that it's too hot and jump out much before you reach boiling point. I wish for all of us the kind of healthy instincts a frog has.
You need to jump out of the pot. Move abroad, while it's still possible. True, for Israelis "abroad" equals "America," but you may be surprised to hear that it's not the only option. There are several countries in this world that would be very glad to get a second-hand Israeli in good condition. Canada is one of them. So is New Zealand. There are many others.
At the end of the day, gloomy prophecies and unflattering comparisons to other countries is not what will get you to board a plane. After you debate, look into it, consult, examine the details, and do the numbers, you'll be left with one question: Do I have the guts to do it?
Leaving Israel is a risky business. Not because of the departure itself, as after all we can always go back, and many people indeed to that – but rather, because it forces you to deal with yourself. It's a process of the most in-depth self-examination, whether you like it or not.
Chickening out
Many people who plan to emigrate say that they're scared they will end up missing their relatives, the scenery, soccer games on Friday afternoon. In many cases, they're actually scared they'll end up not missing all that. Because without it, who are you in fact? And that's what you'll find out when you go.
And no, those six months you spent in the Far East don't count, because back then you knew you'll be back and that the room at your parents' house is still waiting for you. Now, it's like you're throwing yourself into space. Bungee jumping without the rope.
Those who left and never came back apparently know why they didn't. There are about a million Israelis like that in the world today. Those who left and did return two or three years later know a few things: They know who they are and what they are. They know what they love in Israel and what they'd like to change. They know why they're staying and they know this is the country they choose to live in, for the time being at least. But those who never tried, even though they were able to, are simply chickening out.
Listen, I don't know what will happen in the future. Maybe any moment now the people of Israel will realize how close they are to the edge and wake up. Maybe we'll even be able to come up with some kind of a semi-stable arrangement with our annoying neighbors, reformulate an agenda, and elect leaders for the Zionist enterprise who don't smoke cigars or are closely associated with various millionaires and functionaries. Maybe then we'll be able to live in a normal country. And maybe not.
What are you crying about? Your leaders have friends in the US that has bought our gov't. They will look after Israel's interests above and beyond what is good for America. Besides, you're doing the same ole "I am a victim" routine. No one believes it anymore. Believe in the IDF? They are only good if the opponent is unarmed.
A funny book written by a Jew. But it does seem like the Jew elite seems to have got itself into this Catch-22 situation, supported by the Jew army of foot soldiers who receive their feed from what they do.
The Catch-22 situation is they are damned if they do and damned if they stop....there is no going back even if they wanted to (which they don't want). If they continue, they will expose themselves to more and more people, their crimes will no longer be hidden, there will be wrath and anger against them. It they stop, they will lose their 'power and wealth' and their means of robbing others, they will be mundane and un-impressive in their own Gold intoxicated souls....and people may hate them for their historical crimes anyway. They have gone too far to turn back now.
Some rare individuals may jump ship, but most will remain on board until it hits the iceberg and sinks.
What the author is sadly missing is the difference between civilization and culture. Civilization is reversible but culture is (almost) not. Civilization is the overground part of a tree and culture is the underground part of the tree. A tree that has been planted somewhere but fails to grow roots and penetrate the ground underneath it, will soon or later be toppled and whither away. A well rooted tree, on the other hand, can be destroyed by storms over and over again, but it will grow back again and again. China, India, Iran, Egypt, Greece, Italy, ... lost their civilizations many times over. But they always came back and rebuilt it. Phoenicians, Akkadians, Sumerians, Aztecs, ... created great civilizations but failed to develop an underpinning culture for themselves. We now consider them as just a peak in the human history.
Mongoloid Turks have never been able to create a culture anywhere in the world in the last 2-3 thousand years. Their biggest accomplishment was Kingdom of Khazaria which lasted about 100 years. Their latest endeavor is Israel. They have state of the arts technology, military, paved roads, communications, commerce, trade, ... But what they have missed again creating is a moral and cultural value system that connects them together and pours foundation upon which they can communicate with others too. Instead they have created a moral cesspool. Israel is a big tree with little roots in the ground. It may not even need a big storm to knock it down. Five hundred years from now, people will know about it as much as they know about Kingdom of Khazaria today: A blip in the ocean.
We have more Jews than we need or want here in America. The climate here has changed. Best go somewhere else, loot some other country.
Maybe Sudan will take you in.
I see alot of joo bashing racist hypocrites on here making threats and whatnot (which are cyber crimes btw) but noone of the doltish acknowledges that america and britain created this monster. Instead of hating on israel, if I was a joo I would hate on america and britain for getting my ass into so much trouble in the first place.
Sounds like another one of those meaningless Zion term.
The Zionists can ferment hate, hostility and war against anyone and it is quite acceptable??
Point out the criminality and base amoral behaviour of the Zionists, identify them and all of a sudden you are doing a 'hate crime'. It is hilarious.
Its sad that most of jews don't see injustice they have done to Palestine and their Arab brethren. Its sad to see zionist minority preparing very dark future for jews everywhere. Its sad to see Anglo-Saxon west playing Russian rulet with jewish nation. Its sad to see blind jews, who by the way have been punished and Divinely warned several times through ancient history, unwilling to accept the fact that God has created all human beings as equal and irrelevant of their religion they deserve basic respect and safety from anyone's injustice. I am a Muslim but I don't like to hear words of doom and threats to anyone. Not all jews are dirty rich and corrupt zionists. Don't you forget that jews killed in wwii were not zionists but they were sold out as sacrificial lamb to nazi beast so that zionists can claim foul to the western world and illegally establish the state of Israel. Ironically claim of oppression that paved the way for the creation of Israel caused nothing but further oppression on innocent third party that is Palestinians. If west felt so bad about holocaust they should have given zionists territory of Austria for that was Hitler's homeland. And today we would not have oil crisis and wwiii on our doorstep. Somebody mentioned catch 22 situation quite on spot. Injustice done to palestinians for last 50 years or so is so great that no peace deal can stabilize that region. Problem is that so many jews got sucked in with zionist propagana and moved to illegally created state that honestly has no future. Israel will not be invaded by any arab country that is for sure but it will not survive either. I feel sorry for ordinary jews when that happens for I fear that reason and compassion will be clouded within palestinian population and many atrocities could happen. If anyone can help jews in Palestine when Israel is no more it is only Godfearing arabs that can protect jewish population in that country and I would advise every honest jew to work toward building bridges of friendship and brotherhood with their Semite arab brethren before it is really too late. Those criminals that enslaved the whole world through financial institutions will face their day of reckoning for sure but I beg of you not to identify all jews with zionists for that would be a sin against God. Enough of killings and injustice lets make some difference by ridding ourselves from racism of every kind and extend our hand to every human being irrelevant of his religion or nationality. God bless you all.
The truth used to be that the eternally persecuted Jewish people, who of course had never done anything wrong, should have their own country, which they abandoned 2000 years ago. They were a nuisance to the Roman empire, which bent over backwards to please them and received no signs of gratitude for its efforts. You cannot blame Jews for being inconsistent!
The author complains about annoying neighbors, but which neighbor would be all smiles when you build on his land, steals his water, destroys his crops and kidnap his family?
The Jews may be close to a monopoly on the news, but as long as people can still think they can make their own conclusions. The result is for everyone to see in the falling newspaper circulation. Who wants to pay to have your intelligence insulted?
People believe what they want to believe, that is called selective perception. Are we approaching the point when only Jews believe their own propaganda?
The author's advice is to Israelis to move abroad, (they can always return after all). What kind of attitude is that? It is not the attitude of a people, who has stronger sentiments for its country than to use it as a safe haven and protection from the long arm of the law of civilized nations.
Concentration camp personnel which may have committed crimes against Jews can be prosecuted until they are in their graves, but Jews, who have committed similar crimes against gentiles in Polish concentration camps are protected by Israel.
US has given more development assistance to Israel than to any other country and has openly accepted to be robbed of much larger sums, but it does not even have an extradition agreement with Israel, which is in theory and practice a safe haven for Jewish criminals.
In that perspective we shall understand why being a criminal in the Israeli government is rather the norm than the exception.
If your feelings for your country are more about convenience than the sense of belonging your attitude to it and its neighbors will reflect that and your country will suffer.
Therefore, you Israeli Jews, now you have got your own country and you just have to learn to live in peace with yourselves and your neighbors. With the benefit of some humble self-reflection (if you can imagine what that means) you may realize that Israel until today has pursued war, not peace. It is Israel which wants war with Iran, which may appear to constitute a threat because the Jewish media have willfully misquoted the Iranian president.
So the best we can do to help the Israelis to become true natives to their country is to help them learn to live with themselves and their neighbors.
In concrete terms we can adopt strict practices forbidding dual citizenships. Israeli Jews would have to chose whether they are Israelis or something else. It is not acceptable that Israel is used as a "flag of convenience".
In case that the Israelis chose to leave, that means that there will be no more Israeli citizens, and the land can be orderly and peacefully closed down and transferred back to the people, the rightful owners, who lived peaceful and productive lives in Palestine for 2000 years until Israel was established. By the way they tend to be just Palestinians, not Palestinian/US citizens or whatever.
Israelis who do not currently hold dual citizenship should not expect to be enthusiastically welcomed wherever they fancy to go. That is not the case for any other people, and the Jews must learn that as well.
The history of Israel is a history of brutal and criminal aggression against its neighbors and from time to time against its own people, including the 100,000 Ringworm Children, an ethnic cleansing of Sephardi Jews, carried out with US assistance.
I would not be surprised if it is correct that Israel is developing weapons of mass destruction to target people with specific racial profiles. The Israelis should feel "safe" in their racist endeavors, because targeting the Semitic profile would only annihilate Arabs and the "useless" orthodox Jews, who do not want to kill (one of the 10 Commandments in case you saw the film?) and who have no clue how to succeed in the world of crime.
We are not surprised to learn that the billions which have been extorted from Western governments and banks in the name of the Holocaust survivors still leave the majority of the same survivors below the poverty line in Israel.
Israeli Jews have a lot to learn about living with themselves and their neighbors, and the best thing we can do to help is to make sure that they stay where they are!
I am fully aware that such proposal will be met with claims that I am an anti-Semite and that I promote Israel as an appalling and inhuman ghetto. I know the Zionist tricks, and I know that they do not work any longer!
What a joyous day is coming, when I$rael dies.
"Maybe then we'll be able to live in a normal country."
When you BEHAVE NORMALLY. When you act like a DECENT HUMAN BEING, and not like a mutated selfish arrogant PIG groveling after money and power while SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF OTHERS, then, and only then, ANY COUNTRY you live in will treat you accordingly, and your life will be NORMAL - relatively speaking.
Ellendra Jane
"Corruption? Road accidents? Pollution? Poverty? Who cares about this nonsense? Two Qassam rockets just landed in Sderot and Ahmadinejad again made some belligerent statements."
You israelis INVENTED this shit. Who cares? RIGHT. Your arrogant words are best spoken on the plight of the Palestinians - the corruption, pollution, poverty, murder of children, depletion of natural resources and educational resources - what YOUR so-called "PEOPLE" have done to the Palestinians and Lebanese is to the 50th power compared to what you've done to yourselves.
You should all live like Jesus Christ. You should all live like Ahmandinejad.
Take a page out of God's book for once in you arrogant, pathetic lives.
Qassam rocket = a small fire in an empty vast field far from civilization
Apache war planes = approx. one hundred defenseless people and their children bombed, gunned down, maimed, orphaned, and murdered.
Looks as if your journey has ended and there is no place to run. You are better off staying in Palestine and having the Arabs as your bosses. The men can dig ditches while your women can, well, be entertaining to the wealthy Arabs.
All of you people are blinded by your hatered for Jews.
You are all sick people and I hope the Jews punish you for your feelings.
I just strongly object to zionists infiltrating and overtaking our government's foreign policy for the benefit of israel.
But, by all means, please elaborate on what you mean when you say that you "hope the Jews punish us for our feelings."
Are you suggesting that "Jews" (1) have enough power that they can punish people, and (2) that they would actually use that power to "punish" people "for their feelings?"
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Mankind has been under Zionist punishment for a long time now and you are utterly ignorant if you think that everybody here hates ALL Jews. Wake up from your slumber man, are you really thinking that Zionist nukes can silence billions of oppressed and pissed off people around the world. There comes a time in human suffering when they prefer death over miserable life that Zionist "race" has been imposing on majority of the mankind. Many of us know and appreciate decent Jews who have same opinion about the Zionist supremacists as we do.
You are obviously blind to reality outside of Jewish "reality" and that is why you think we all hate Jews and need to be punished.
"Let there be Light!"
I just read "Message to the Jews" and... oh please... this is such a pathetic message. Reading it, one would imagine that the Jews in Israel were victims or innocent by-standers of some kind of situation that was 'imposed on them... That is not the case of the Israeli people AT ALL. They cry victim as is their specialty, yet they are violent and cruel occupiers and aggressors. They protest the Lebanon war NOT BECAUSE IT WAS ILLEGAL OR IMMORAL, but because they think that their government and army weren't firm enough!! Not a word in their protests of the 1200 innocent Lebanese civilians who died in the process, not to mention the injured and... oh yes the millions of cluster bombs. "Message to the Jews" speaks of Qassam rockets in the typical Zionist way... AS THOUGH THEY WERE BALLISTIC MISSILES!! What would the Jews or the Israelis be crying about if the Palestinians had one single Apache or F-16 with a few real missiles such as the ones Israelis use regularly on Palestinians??
The self-pity tone of this "message to the Jews" sickens me... It is the ultimate CHUTZPAH when the aggressor plays victim... When Norman Finkelstein wrote "Beyond Chutzpah"... he certainly knew what he was talking about... and this "Message to the Jews" is a perfect reflection of it. I really wonder which country is going to 'welcome' the Israelis? After all, the world isn't blind... and has now seen what the immigrating Ashkenazi Jews did to Palestine and to the Palestinian people.
In any case... my humble message to the Ashkenazi Jews is Bye bye baby and Good Riddance!!!
You have said what many of us think and know, well done for saying it exactly like how it is.
Good riddance. We don't want your criminal organizations and behaviors running rampant throughout the U.S. anymore. The best way to serve any kind of jail time is to be slaves again for the Arabs. This is the only way for you jews to be controlled if you want to live. Otherwise, death to you all.
pistol happy.
When you say death to all jews, you speak in complete ignorance.
some Jews are in fact from Judah. Many are not, and are elite ussurpers of the Judahic name. You will know the difference by their fruits.
Speaking ignorant only makes you appear even more so.
"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"...Voltaire