It has taken 63 years for the Israeli middle class to realise that theyve been taken for a ride and that that liquid coming down on their heads isn't necessarily rain.
They are taxed to the hilt while others enjoy wide ranging subsidies.
Housing prices in Israel have become prohibitive for the professional class. Public transport, clothing, food and fuel are higher than European prices while salaries, even before massive taxation, are much much lower than in Europe.
The middle class has realised that the bread and circuses supplied by the far right won't buy the weekly shop and won't help put a roof over the next generations head. Israel has squandered billions on small irrelevant sectors, such as the settlers, while promising the middle class a better tomorrow. Well, tomorrow's here.
That's why the yank settlers in Shiloh and the wannabe settler are scared. No one is scared of them any more. they've lost their deterrence.
If not now, when?
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