[heterosupremacist]

Excellent post. Rock on...

[Rummyfan]

Meanwhile, to this day America gets as much or more monetary and military strategic value from its investments in Israel’s defense as it spends. Typically, most American military defense allocations towards Israel must be spent on American-made parts and materiel. American weapons then are battle-tested against Soviet arms, and Israel thereupon shares lessons learned in battle with the American defense establishment and their contractors. Modifications then are made, often with upgrades devised by the Israelis themselves, and that assures American military superiority over Soviet/Russian weapons.

Yes it is a mutually beneficial relationship.

[fhayek]

There is something that I don’t understand. Socialism exists in many places of this world. If someone believes in socialism, I have no doubt that they would be welcomed with open arms by one of these countries. Why wouldn’t they just emigrate to socialism instead of trying to implement it here, when there are so many people here who want no part of it?

[goldstategop]

Only 8% of Israelis are leftists. While that’s true of 50% of American Jews.

Israelis love Donald Trump - 77%. In contrast only 34% of American Jews approve of him.

They’re already like two different peoples.

[fireman15]

An interesting article. Over the years I have known a number of people who moved to Israel and lived in kibbutz communities, some of them were not even Jewish. They all came back within a couple years usually telling stories of how much they loved living with all their new friends at the kibbutz, and all the great ways they managed to grow enough food not to starve in a place with almost no water. So the question that I had for every one of them was, “If you loved it so much, what are you doing back here?”

There were various excuses, but it almost always really came back to eking out an existence with barely enough to eat, getting paid almost nothing, and living where it gets hot with almost no air conditioning just gets old pretty fast.

[Dogbert41]

Funny, my year in Israel on two Kibbutzim made me a Red Blooded American Reagan loving capitalist too. But it wasn’t the kibutzim, or their socialism, but that one Communist Australian that hated America who insisted on eating with me every day that did it for me. I loved all those Israeli socialists, and tried to be a servant to them all in Jesus’s Name.

[BenLurkin]

Very good read. Thank you for posting.

[I want the USA back]

Definitely worth reading this article.

People never learn. Socialism is actually government control over everything. And it always fails. And they never give up trying to force us to accept socialism.

[cpdiii]

Good post with the link to The American Spectator.

If socialism, Maxism, and the kibbutz actually worked I would be a hard core leftist. It does not work because it does not incorporate human nature. I “ani’t gonna work” for some lazy bastard that does not want to work but will take the fruits of my labor.

Marxism and Socialism always fails. Socialism is but the first step to full blown Marxism and the totalitarian state.

[William Tell]

Excellent article. But it ended too abruptly. I was hoping to hear how present-day Israel is different.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If I remember correctly, when the UN voted to make Israel a nation the USSR voted FOR it. But later they always supported the Arab nations.

[SJackson]

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[Silentgypsy]

Thanks for posting!