"It should have been a headline long ago, or at least the talk of the day: Every fifth Israeli lives in fear of hunger, every 10th suffers from hunger. But this almost-African statistic, the kind that comes from the darkness of the third world, appeared only on the inside pages."This time I have to agree with the anti-Zionist scribbler. I for one am of the 20% of Israelis who live in fear of hunger (although I'm morbidly overweight). Worse than than, I am the 10% Israelis who actually suffers hunger. I do every time I fast.
On a second thought, the fact that people eats BEFORE they are actually hungry means that statistically they live in fear of hunger. And Yom Kippur about 60-70% of the population fasts and feels the acute pangs of hunger. People reading Guideon Levy concludes that if not for the food packets parachuted by CARE, we would be all dry bones in the desert.
There is something in Levy's accusations: Netaniyahu government is indifferent, no! worse than indifferent to this catastrophe. A new law actually forbids serving nutricious food in the schools and the Army has banned meat. Those two basic sources of energy - sugar and fat - will be made unavailable to our youth. With Machiavellian dialectics, our Government is campaigning against a phantom problem (such as the fattening "epidemy") while actually starving us all.
The pic is from the Israeli documentary "A Matter of Size" starring Itzik Cohen, Irit Kaplan and Dvir Benedek. It is about a weight-loss club transformation into s sumo group. Herzl is getting it from all sides — Geola’s public humiliations, his mother making fun of his girth and single status and his boss insisting he gives the wrong impression as an open-kitchen chef in a health-food restaurant before firing him. He finds new work at a Japanese restaurant and a new purpose when he sees a sumo match on TV. Now those dudes are fat — and they’re respected for it.
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I'm struck by the leftists' duplicity whenever this topic comes up. They know that a sizeable percentage of these hungry are families of the Haredim whom they despise (and the rest are Arabs).
But they write as if there are hordes of regular lower-class working people starving on the streets. Maybe somebody who never leaves Tel Aviv can believe that.
It is known that once he has ventured as far as Ramat HaSharon. He immediately wrote a chest-banging article asking Arafat's absolution for polluting holy Arab soil.
It is known that once he has ventured as far as Ramat HaSharon. He immediately wrote a chest-banging article asking Arafat's absolution for polluting holy Arab soil.
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