The AVE Blog: Maybe we could give Arizona to Jews Fleeing Bibi’s Israel?

Mirel Goldenberg wrote a very depressing view of Israel under Netanyahu. Mirel is painting the future of Israel as a modern Sparta.

This is the Israel warned of by Yitzhak Rabin, an Israel that chooses to define itself by war rather than peace.   Bibi’s Israel would be a bitter state, not unlike the America painted by the Tea Party.,, filled by religious fanatics, gun totin settlers and a permanent military cadre resembling the SS.Today Jerusalem, the city of “peace” is ready for a new intifada.  Perpetual war, even if such a thing could be done in the 21st century, will destroy Israel as a home for the Jewish tradition we are proud of.

Why would the entrepreneurs who Bibi wants to power his Israel remain in such a place? Why wouldn’t they leave for the more fertile environments in the US, Europe, South Africa, or Australia where Jews can be Jews? Who would invest there?

Like many Jews I have considered Aliyah, the immigration to Israel that is open to all Jews.  I have urged my children to make this choice .. a choice to live in a land where even the craziest beaver hat wearing settler, is OUR crazy.  Now, I can not feel that way.  I do not want my grandchildren to live in a country that celebrates perpetual war and acts as the inheritor of apartheid.

I am sure I am not the only Jew who feels this way.  Jews like me, academics and intellectuals, still make up about a third or all Israelis .. and that does not count the 20% of Israelis who are Arab.   Jewish emigration FROM Israel will be the new threat.  Imagine an Israel filled with orthodox Jews and militant settlers competing to bear more children than the Arabs!

Then there is Israel’s oldest threat .. Israel as yet another Jewish ghetto destroyed by the larger community.  Can this Sparta lose the war? It seems now certain that Iran will soon be freed of its sanctions, able to compete as a 21st century regional hegemon … not by lobbing missiles but by becoming a economic superpower. Iran has the potential of emulating China, using economic power to build military power (something the US has done very well too).  Add in a likely boycott of Israeli products by Europe, and Iran’s future looks bright. Add in Iran’s influence in Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon and Syria and Israel’s existential fate is pretty grim.

As a proud AMERICAN Jew, I would welcome a few million Jews home to the US. 

Alternatively,  since Messers  Cruz, McCane, Cotton and Pailin want to be loved by Israel, perhaps Israel should make our  Tea Party friends Israeli citizens and the US can just offer American citizenship to an equal number of Israelis.

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An Israeli’s View of Bibi

Mirel Goldenberg

Hey, hey…In a democratic election a Right Wing Government under Bibi was elected and difficult years will come for Israel as the crooks, demagogues, fanatics and morons will govern over us. However will be no more chances of a Major war that were if my side, the Mahane HaTzioni under Buzi Hertzog, would win. Under Herzog, we would do exactly the same decisions: operation in Gaza against Hamas, actions against Iran and against Obama, a president that is alienating his allies and probably we also not sign an accord with Abbas, old, weak and ruling over less than 50% of the Palestinians. We would try to make REGIONAL accords with the Arab countries over the Palestinian problems and not (only) with the Palestinians. As Bibi, we would ask the disarmament of Gaza before reconstruction and improvement of the economy. If other internal issues are interesting you, probably the economic decisions will be different: more welfare and more socialist projects, but doubting that would succeed. However again, Bibi, that I despise from my heart, will not make more war than Herzog but also not less. Israel is a ship on troubled water; I would give a lot to have other captain, but Bibi on the helm doesn’t mean that he wants to sink the ship.

And under any Bibi, Buzi or whatever, Israel has to win all the battles, the right ones, the wrong ones, the necessary ones, the unnecessary; Israel may win a hundred times but it’s enough to lose one time that six millions Jews will go again in smoke or in the sea.