Funny thing is that the Kibbutz is not your Grandfather’s Kibbutz. Most have become a capitalistic for profit corporation with with factories with employees. They have matured and have found that survival in a High Tech Israel soceity that they could no longer be the collective model. So Mr. Obama. Your behind the times again.
Should we grant him a pass on this Gaffe?
“Funny thing is that the Kibbutz is not your Grandfather’s Kibbutz. Most have become a capitalistic for profit corporation.”
I actually did provide two links to articles discussing those trends, and wrote: “Recent years have seen a crisis for the kibbutzim, in which they have been forced to embrace some market reforms in order to survive. But Obama clearly seemed to be referring to the original, romanticized version of the collectivist kibbutz in which ‘we’re all in this together.’”