From my perspective of over half a century of following the news, being aware of Israel and almost forty years of being a resident Israeli, I can't remember such truly positive press since the 1967 Six Days War.
During the past two weeks, the world was amazed at how tiny Israel put together a top-notch, world class, well equipped hospital in just hours in far away Haiti. Most embarrassed is the Americans. Will the embarrassment cause jealousy?
How long will this admiration last?
I have other questions. How is it that a country which can plan and organize so well for a distant emergecy not know how to prevent one at home?
4 comments:
It's "good for the Jews" because we did the right thing.
Should the world hate us for doing the right thing, it will be bad for them.
Unfortunately, us doing the right thing is often hard to come by nowadays.
Good points, Shy.
thanks
Shalom!
Concerning your last question, an American manager from Intel commented that Israelis are good at "putting out fires", but are lousy planners. Unfortunately there's much truth in that statement. The "יאלה! קדימה חבר'ה" (translation: "Let's go guys!") attitude shared by most Israelis tends to cause problems later.
Like Disengagement and the building freeze.
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