Comments on: 2012: The Year of the Foreign Passport

By: Robert Eichel

Robert Eichel — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:56:51 +0000

Somehow I can’t see them lining up for passports to Egypt Syria Tunisia Iran or any Islamic paradise or Russia or Eastern Europe or the countries on the edge of bankruptcy.
I don’t see anybody defending the minority of loonies here even the Israeli chief Rabbi condemned them as well as the son of Rabbi Ovadiah Josef who said it was acceptable to sit next to a woman

By: Robert Eichel

Robert Eichel — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:39:14 +0000

A beat up considering the overwhelming majority of Israelis are secular and they vote.

By: Paul Winter

Paul Winter — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:09:19 +0000

In reply to Gabrielle. I am terribly sorry, but I have not met any Jew in Australia nor read of any Jew in Australia excusing the atrocious behaviour of some of the Cheiredi. No civilised person will condone the behaviour of anyone who descrates the Sabbath to object to a perceived violation of the Sabbath, to avoidance of national service, to hostility to Israel because the messiah hasn't yet come and to existing on welfare because they have no work skills. But it is grossly unfair to tar all religious Jews as medeival, obscurantist fanatics. For centuries Jews have been the victims of stereotyping where the faults of a few and usually the false accusations against some have been treated as group characteristics and the group was made to suffer. Such generalisations have no place in the family of Jews and certainly no place among Jews who consider themselves progressive.

By: Paul Winter

Paul Winter — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:53:55 +0000

I am not sure in which Israel Raffe Gold is living in. The Israel my wife and I visited in September had none of the religious extremism and right-wing aggression that he perceives. Beit Shemesh is where my cousin’s son works and he lives in the Orthodox community of Yad Benjamin. It is too religious for me but he is by no means a fanatic, not is the cousin who lives in a building where units are sold only to the religious. All I saw was tolerance and contentment; the hereidi were accepted as much as the guy in shorts, t-shirt and thongs laying tefillin while sitting on a cafe stool on a Tel Aviv street. As for the New Israel Fund, it is a threat to democracy in Israel by funding Arab enemies of Israel and supporting sedition with the aim of compelling Israel to yield to EU pressure. Those who find a resistance to sedition and the exploitation of democracy only to undermine it objectionable, should use their passports to escape to the realm of the European administrative oligarchy.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:52:05 +0000

Regarding the left wing Jews who you say want to leave Israel, many will be happy to see them leave, and will not be shedding any tears.
Do they need any help packing their bags?
Written by a new and proud Israeli citizen.

By: Rami

Rami — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:42:58 +0000

So! at the first sign of disappointment these left wingers won’t fight for their rights but runaway like rats. For a long while these people have vilified the state, vilified the religious sector, helped Israels enemies by supplying names of soldiers and airmen to those who wish Israel harm. They received payment from foreign governments to undermine Israel and now after finally being called to account and seeing a revival of the religious sector who are increasingly becoming the backbone of the IDF, while they, the lefties, promote refusal to serve in the IDF feel they need to abandon the State. If they are such Zionists, it doesn’t take much to get them to leave. Good riddance, in the last couple of decades, all they have been doing is harming the state.

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:36:31 +0000

Thank you Raffe and thank you J-wire..

It seems to me that far to many Jews in Australia stand up for the appalling behaviour of the ultra Orthodox in Israel thinking that is the right thing to do.

We need to know what is really going on and the fact that more and more Israelis are applying to leave the country is very telling.