No to the brown people!

“Checkpoints? Why not? Roadblocks? Yes, definitely. Tire burning? If necessary, sure. Violence? Who knows?”

 

Yitzhak is ready to fight back: “We will now take things into our own hands and prove that the `hoity-toities’ are no longer like that. Don’t get us wrong. Everyone here dresses in white shirts and ties, but we intend to fight, because this is a battle for our way of life. We see it as a matter of principle. We’re passionate about it and we have no intention of giving in. We know how to use force, too.”

 

Comments by Palestinian insurgents? Nope. Just the wealthy folk who live in the elitist town next to mine complaining about the possible opening of a fence between the city of Modi’in and the village of Reut. The passageway will allow the children of Modi’in who are assigned to a school there arrive in a timely manner.

 

I could give two shits about this to be honest. No kids yet. And I’m sure they’ll figure all this crap out by the time my unborn children are roaming the streets. I just thought the above quotes were funny.  Do rich people always get violent when they are threatened with the middle class moving in on their territory? 

 

The word was that this would be the fourth largest city in Israel,” Fasi says, “that the population would reach 120,000. In practice, that hasn’t happened. The new immigrants didn’t exactly come. Instead, people from Ramla and Lod moved here and the new immigrants went there.”

 

“From every point of view we were a model community, untainted and without corruption,” says Shlomo Fasi from Reut, a brigadier general in the reserves, the CEO of Ordan, a computer software company, and chairman of the actions committee and the leading proponent for disengagement from Modi’in.

 

And just who are “the people from Ramla and Lod” he is talking about? Doesn’t take a Shas voter to figure out what he means by that…

 

The ironic thing about this whole controversy is that Reut is a liberal town. Only 25% voted for Likud in the last election and Meretz and Shinui received an overwhelming 67%.  

 

If you are interested in reading about this oh so interesting topic, check out the Ha’aretz article.

 

 

Tags: buchman, modi'in, reut