Living in Israel?

Question

Are you living in Israel? If you are, tell me about your experience?

What's your religion? Your position on the state of Israel?

What is the treatment like for foreigners living in Israel?
Especially Arabs and non-Arab muslims?

I think all news is biased. no matter where it's coming from. But real life experiences are important and helpful and educational.

Answer 1

I live in the State of Israel. I've lived here for 3 years. I am an Orthodox Jew, and my position on the State of Israel is that it is the greatest evil embraced by the Jewish people since the Baal worship of the first Temple period.

I am an ultra-Orthodox Jew, which puts me in a category one rung above the Palestinians as far as the government is concerned. In Israeli schools the children are taught that we leach off the government money that rightfully belongs to others, and that we caused the holocaust by not embracing ZIonism. (The truth is we don't accept money from the State.)

Sometimes they will harrass us by doing things to offend our religious sensibilites in our neighborhoods. Giving porno stores a license to open or something. If we protest, they will let the protest go on, but punish us a week or so later by blocking off the streets and beating up everyone on them. SOmetimes they put the protest down forcibly while it's going on.

Normal Israeli's are very stressed, and sometimes mean to each other. I don't think they are bad, I think they are emotionally traumatized. They yell at each other in normal conversation. I do sometimes feel upset at them because they speak so wickedly. THey talk about killing Arabs like its nothing, and if someone says something like, "If you drink and drive again, you might get in a car accident." The other person says, "Mercy and peace. It should happen to an Arab."

Arabs are treated very brutally here. They are used for slave labor mostly. Theyt work as construction workers and are payed 130 shekels for 11 hours of work. A shekel is equal about 20 cents. They can be arrested on suspiscion and held indefinately. They are not allowed to be tortured, but they are allowed to be physically hurt; for example tied in a position so they can't sit down or stand up all the way.

When they work in our neighborhoods we try to show them we aren't the problem: giving them food during their lunch breaks, and thermos's of tea; learning little Arabic phrases , but there's no little thing you can do to make these things better. I hate to say it, but Israel now is to them what Germany 1936 was for us. They aren't being systematically killed off, but things are very savage and hard for them.


Druze are mistreated, but not as badly as the Arabs. They serve in the army and stuff.

Bedoine's are pushed out of their areas and forced to live in cities made for them.

This is a brutal, terrible place, and I pray every day that G_d sends the Messiah to tear this wicked country down and put his righteous kingdom in its place. I also have terrible guilt because sometimes I feel by being here and paying taxes I am contributing to the way they treat people. I know that is true, and I want to leave; but I don't know how to make it right.

Answer 2

i went to israel for a pilgrimage,
I found tel a viv to be comletely filthy and Jerusalem too!

i found the Jews to be at times VERY proud and arrogant.
i found the muslims to be more enticing and freindly.
but what can you say about helicopters flying 50 feet overhead and everyhwere you go the military is armed with automatic machine guns.
satan worshippers abounded in the hostels and would rape you the minute you fell asleep. of course they would drug you so you dont know it.
i tried to rebuke an older brother for hitting his younger brother and i got a rock thrown at me which hit me in the head. then i was rebuked by a police officer for not knowing their customs.
if you believe the whole country is a "CHOSEN PEOPLE" think again! teenagers hate being forced to read scriptures and sex and infidelity are just as much a corruption as anywhere else in the world.
of course now adays if you go to israel, you could end up with your head missing on any day if you go to the wrong place and meet the wrong people. I came back with a very serious Health issue. I think there is much biological warfare througout all the settlements.

Answer 3

Why don't you ask how the Palestinians? Rather than get a biased view and just add fuel to your ingnorance?

Here take a look at this Documentary:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696

Answer 4

"I think all news is biased. no matter where it's coming from. But real life experiences are important and helpful and educational."

if you think so then why do you refuse to learn about Islam from authentic Islamic sources and prefer the filthy lies of faithfreedom.org over the truth? educating yourself with lies will get you no where.

why do you choose the easy way out? why do you look for something that approves your corrupted and biased opinion and refuse to challenge your beliefs?

if you truly wanna know something i suggest referring to authentic sources.
http://www.nkusa.org/AboutUs/index.cfm
may God guide you.

Answer 5

I live in Kazachstan!