Aestu wrote:
I specifically pointed out that sheer economics would be the impetus. Not the Iranians, or mortar attacks, or American pressure, or the Israeli electorate.
Yeah, but it's still not that crazy. Think about the way Israel is run. The average Israeli (if there is such a thing) is a quasi-European person used to a socialist government, nice beaches, pretty girls, and a high-but-accessible cost of living. The two nonstandard groups that have far too much power are the Russian Jews who are almost uniformly ultraconservative (despite not benefiting from their own policies), warmongering wannabe bullies, probably due to the centuries of getting shit on by various non-Jews while in Russia; and the Orthodox, by which I mean whatever name is appropriate for the superreligious Jews who have fifteen kids, don't work because instead they study the Torah, need lots and lots of armed guards in the form of scared 18-year-olds doing their military service for the settlements most Israelis don't want to support, and are a monstrous drain on the economy because the state provides them with everything.
It makes sense that the normal ones would be pissed. They have to do military service to protect the idiot outliers who won't stop fucking and won't stop settling disputed lands, they have to pay taxes and get jobs and pay rent. The religious nuts settle everywhere, need constant protection because they won't stop stepping on Arab toes, don't have jobs, don't pay rent (because they're land-snatching), and are given free money by the government.
The disconnect is evident. The deal is ludicrously one-sided, and the normal ones are finally pissed enough to riot.
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