A “masterpiece” has been written by Bradley Burston of Haaretz. The article opens up:
At times like these, I envy the people who passionately, frankly, with all their hearts, despise Israel.
Well, only a writer from Haaretz can write something like this. A Jew who desperately wants Israel to be just like all the other nations has realized that it cannot and will not. This explains Burston’s bewilderment at Israel’s J Street stance:
In a gratuitous move breathtaking in its haughtiness, its ignorance of and disrespect for the United States and the American Jewish community, the Foreign Ministry – spearhead of Israel’s campaign against boycotts abroad – elected this week to boycott a meeting with five U.S. Congressmen visiting Israel.
Do you expect a right-wing government to tolerate to be given directives by another group of lost Jews-especially ones who (unlike Buston) didn’t have the courage to come to live in Israel?
I don’t think I have met one immigrant from “the first world” who wasn’t frustrated with their choice to live here in Israel. That frustration is evident in the writer’s final statement:
My father did not flee the Soviet Union just so his son could one day have the chance to live in a place just like it.
I’d like to remind Bradley Burston that his father didn’t have the merit of leaving a considerably more comfortable situation simply because…it was the right thing to do.
