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People ask me about the political circus in Israel these days. I try to avoid the topic because it’s just too damn complicated filling the gaps for people who don’t live the news, like many Israelis do… and, it is just too painful.

Given recent news and the disgusting lack of political public personal integrity, I realized that I am ashamed of the politicians running my country; I am ashamed that they no longer have shame. Moving from party-to-party on blank promises, deserting “homes” after decades of leadership for spite and just clinging to the highest bidder regardless of prior doctrine or promises. It has gotten to intolerable dimensions that it might even seem acceptable; the audacity is sometimes enraging. I am mainly worried about the message all this sends to the young people and fear a generation that knows no shame.

I usually like to be a good ambassador to Israel and talk about the good things; I’m not hiding the bad, but not emphasizing it either. But frankly, Israeli politics is full of rotten, power-hungry, opportunistic and certified crooks. Look, I’d like to specify all of them to you, one-by-one, but that’s as far as I go publicly throwing dirt at my country. I just hope the latest “earthquake” would make the few decent, law-abiding, educated politicians that are still left in the system shine… ones that have not left due to the elephant dung’s smell.

(For people “in-the-know,” you could probably, like me, attach a name for every adjective in this post. Give it a shot.)

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