Reeeeeally Joe Blow? And what of your beloved Islamist Jihadi gorillas?
Invetiably, they are going to win. Why? Same reason the Vietcong did. Same reason the Afghans drove out first the British then the Russians and soon us.
You see, Zionism might have seemed like a wonderful idea to Jews 70 years ago, when the ones who survived Hitler were just happy to have a place where they could go.
But today, 70 years later, they are still fighting the Arabs, and you can go to Europe or America and no one is trying to kill you and you can get consumer goods at a reasonable price?
Poll One-third of Israelis think about leaving - National Israel News Haaretz
Some 30 percent of Israelis would seriously consider leaving if they could, according to a poll commissioned by Israel's Channel 2, Israeli website Globes reported Sunday.
While the majority – 56 percent - responded that they would not leave Israeli even if they had the opportunity to do so, emigration is no longer the stigma in Israel it once was. Only 36 percent of respondents said they had a negative view of emigrants, according to Globes. The remainder was either neutral about emigration or even viewed it positively.
"I came to the conclusion that I simply couldn't take it anymore," explained Elad, who moved to Munich, Globes reported. "I can't explain it, but in Israel there's a feeling… I wouldn't say that there's no future, but that there's pressure, severe pressure all the time, wherever it comes from - rockets, taxes, the atmosphere in the streets, the overdraft at the bank. One day I just said to myself that I'd like something else."
Not going to get better for you guys.
Lots of Jews from all over the world moving to Israel as well, keep up, Joe Blow.
Despite Mideast Turmoil More French Jews Are Moving To Israel Parallels NPR
Despite Mideast Turmoil, More French Jews Are Moving To Israel
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A restaurant in Sarcelles, a northern Paris suburb, is damaged after a July 20 rally against Israel's Gaza offensive descended into violence.
Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images
Jews are leaving France and moving to Israel in unprecedented numbers this year.
With the departures expected to surpass 5,000, France could pull ahead of the U.S. for Jewish emigration to Israel, known as
aliya. Usually, making
aliya is a cause for celebration. But in France this year, it's tinged with bitterness.
The country, which has Western Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish populations, is experiencing repercussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Paris, pro-Palestinian demonstrations have turned violent, as some demonstrators attacked a synagogue and clashed with riot police.
But even before the latest Mideast flare-up, French Jews say there's been a rise in anti-Semitism in France and across Europe.
Four people were
gunned down outside the Jewish museum in neighboring Belgium in May, and three Jewish schoolchildren and a teacher
were killed in the southern city of Toulouse in 2012. Both attacks were carried out by young Frenchmen of North African descent, who recently had returned from fighting alongside extremists in places like Syria.
The combination of this violence and the stagnant French economy is fueling the emigration. So far this year, more than 2,000 French Jews have left, up from 580 during the same period last year.
Earlier this month, a Paris synagogue overflowed during a goodbye ceremony for the latest group of Jews to move to Israel.
Among them are Steven Taieb and Meyer Zouari. Both are leaving their families to move to Israel this summer. Armed with computer science degrees, they hope to find good jobs.
Though both young men claim they've always wanted to move to the Holy Land to fully live their faith, they say the recent climate precipitated their departure. Zoauri's father David believes his son made the right decision.
"France is no longer the beautiful country it was," he said. "It's being invaded. Its secularism is being compromised. All you see are women wearing veils in the streets, and mosques are sprouting up everywhere."
France, Zoauri says, is turning into a Muslim country.
Both of the young Jewish men say they grew up in the Paris suburbs, in mixed communities where Jews, Muslims and Christians co-existed.
Taieb said his family never had any problems: "We all said hello to each other and respected each other."
But Zouari had a different experience living amid his Muslim peers.
"I never knew if someone might try to do something to me just because I was Jewish," he said. "For example, I never felt comfortable wearing my skull cap outside. That would have been a provocation."
After singing a beautiful ballad about Jerusalem, the Paris congregation listened to France's head rabbi, who reminded them of their attachment to France, the first country to give Jews full rights as citizens in 1791. Aside from the tragic deportations during the World War II, France generally has been a haven for Jews. Since the that war, the French government has redoubled efforts to make Jewish families feel welcome.
