Israel, how should I put it. Those past two and a half years in Denmark managed to wipe those memories.

In short, Israel is a country, whose existence is more or less on a limb as it is filled with a majority of Jews. The stress levels are somewhere between “extreme” and “insane”, the common language is Hebrew (with varying accents and vocabulary depending on socioeconomical status) and the common layman is a hardline fascist.

The weather was for a change something I can cope with. Not too bad at all, a slight breeze every now and then, 22°C more or less. To be honest, it’s rarely ever this great and during the summertime the heat is absolutely unbearable, often rising to 35°C or even 40 in some places. Life can be a bitch over in Israel without a proper A/C as my grandmother demonstrated - she’s got about 3 of them in her house.

The common Israeli person is a loud somewhat dark-skinned, short in European scales, has no sense of respect/manners/etc. and wears cloths with poorly phrased English slogans printed on them.

Last Thursday (I believe it was) I paid a visit to the post office to mail some postcards. I stood in what I thought was the line, and waited. Some old woman who could barely walk decided to cut me in line, ask how much some little notebook cost, pay for it, get the change back and leave all the while I was standing in line in front of her. I came there first, and she saw me there when she came, it was no mistake. But I mean, whatever, it’s just one person, right?

Along came a young trendy man with the usual marine-style haircut common around Israel. He stands right next to me and directs the clerk to bring him some sort of package, again, while I’m just there standing in line, or at least trying to. The clerk brought him that package, and gave him some tiny piece of paper to sign. So in other words, he was cooperating.

I eventually handed my postcards, he put some stamps on them, charged me 3 shekel or so (less than a dollar) and told me he’ll take care of them.

And I was there for only 10 minutes..

So now I’m here down with some sort of a disease which seems to affect my stomach for the most part. My back is killing me, because there’s hardly anywhere in here where I can actually sit, making it really hard to use my MacBook. But hey, at least I have an internet connection.

I can’t wait to come back to Denmark.

With all the world’s trouble, it seems to be as if nobody’s actually taking care of a serious breach in many people’s freedom - forced conscription. Being forced to serve in the military by the government with no non-combatant alternative and no regard to one’s beliefs and such.

My main target is of course Israel, who has a record of imprisoning people with conflicting opinions who refused to serve in the army. I will allude to the Social-National (AKA Nazi) party here, who after being elected often was known for imprisoning protesters and such, as well as Stalin’s reign over the Soviet Union, which showed similar behavior.

This is a serious breach of human rights, and apparantly also biased towards Jews, who can much more easily choose not to serve under the definition of being conscience objectors, as shows this Amnesty-issued document. Also, if we look under the section dubbed “Case Histories”, the example of Ali Said Naffa shows that the IDF simply lacks flexibility. Did the imprisonment convince him? No.

“The only democracy in the middle east” my ass. If democracy means “getting minorities sent to prison because they refuse to join an organized mass murder”, I guess democracy it is.

Once in a while I take the time to read some news on ynet, and every now and then I read through the talkbacks and every time - regret doing so. Why is that? Jews calling the hollocaust “justified” and saying that homosexuality is “a mental disorder.”

As usual of course, a lot like product reviews, the guys who go out and start whining are just the ones who have problems. A lot like the mooing on MacBooks, not that many people really have the mooing, but those that do come around to discussion boards to whine about it. One might assume that this edge of users with defected units is a representative of most users while it is not true at all. Same here. Just that the kind of people that actually reply are, to say the least, nazis and fascists doesn’t reflect Israel as a whole. Or at least I hope it doesn’t!

A recent article I read today was about what roughly translates to “with all this nationalism we can’t tell the Polish from the Morrocan” - i.e. “we’re so patriotic that we forgot to be racists.”

In itself, it’s probably a good thing. I would prefer to see nationalism than racism, of course. But then I scroll down to them bottom of the page and start reading the talkbacks. For example:

187. European[-Jews] - you deserved the hollocaust!

In Germany saying something like that would be somewhere on the edge of legallity. It’s horrible hearing something like that, especially from someone who is likely to be a Jew himself.. Basically, fighting against a group which he himself could identify with.

Then we have the other side of the scale:

191. By “A Pure European”:
Subject: We’re not afraid, we’re disgusted
“I heard about your revolution long ago. Luckily, you’re too dumb, lazy and kill one another, so a revolution isn’t going to happen.

Sure, keep tossing your racist comments around. Have fun, and since a fight is all you’re looking for anyway, good luck finding one.