Right up there with pilots

I couldn’t decide on the title for this one, with some of the runner-ups being “They really don’t pay us enough for this dangerous job!” and “Uhhhh can we have the boycott instead?!”

I’m talking, of course, about the terrorist cell they arrested, that had two Israelis in it and that was planning to assassinate Israeli “pilots, scientists, and university lecturers.” Umm hmmm, makes that idea of being internationally condemned and boycotted seem like a really nice alternative to being assassinated . Boy, they really don’t pay us enough!

All joking aside, that is like, veeeeerrry disconcerting. I think the most disconcerting part is the father of one of these guys told the judge that he doesn’t think there is too much wrong with what his son was planning, that he sees a difference between acts of terror against innocent people, which he objects to, and what he views as legitimate resistance like the plan to target pilots.

Uhh but Hellooooo both you and your son are Israeli citizens and that legitimate resistance you are talking about is attacking and killing your fellow citizens. If you would like to think this, and by all means feel free, please leave your citizenship permanently at the door and step on out of this country. Thanks.

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Comments (7)

#1 written by nikki
about 2 years ago

right. and don’t let that door hit you on the way out.
#2 written by Yael
about 2 years ago

lol exactly!
#3 written by Chana
about 2 years ago

The problem, of course, is that many Israeli Arabs see themselves as Palestinian rather than Israeli no matter what citizenship they carry. They view Israel as a transitory problem, not a nation they identify with.
#4 written by Lena F.
about 2 years ago

Chana,

I don’t think that it matters, in this case, whether said people identify as Israeli Arabs, or Palestinian Israelis, or Palestinians, or what have you. I think that the point is that here we have a fundamental conflict of interest. On the one hand, the state provides services and benefits to its Arab population (and the quality and level of those services is a separate discussion), yet a few carry enough anger, or at least antipathy, toward the state to plan to assassinate other citizens…I don’t think that any sovereign state can put up with that kind of situation.
#5 written by lynne
about 2 years ago

Lena, I agree. No country can or should put up with this type of situation.
#6 written by Mac
about 2 years ago

Nope….
#7 written by A Reader
about 2 years ago

Well you cannot go about taking citizenship away. This is like the situation person Yael wrote about earlier, is it not? Someone calling for bad things and plotting bad things because they feel their nation is being run by bad persons. I think you need a law, a method, for determining what to do with such persons. But that is the slippery slope; when to draw the line in the idea of free speech? Because these calling for destruction, over there in Israel and here in the U.S. of A and probably in many countries, they would not let anyone have free speech themselves, they’d shut them up or kill them. So, repay in the same coin??? But how? My thought is of hanging bad persons, but then again, I can already feel the noose around my own scrawny neck, if certain factions get into power and stark raving atheists such as myself are labeled “bad.” I guess my best hope is that these persons calling for destruction will simply fall over dead.