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Comment on Starting out by Udi

Udi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:42:30 +0000

Thank you!
What’s not working with the feed? I haven’t tried feedburner yet.

Comment on Starting out by vlvl

vlvl — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:43:50 +0000

1. Welcome! its good to have you here…
2. Something is not working with your feed. Have you tried using Feedburner instead of the native WP?
3. Reading the first 3 posts I mostly envious of your English… (I thought I’d say it here and not in the mainstream discussion threads).

Comment on Healthy migration by Ori

Ori — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:52:16 +0000

I didn’t read the other comments so sorry if I’m repeating (I was naively thinking I was going to leave the first comment when I finished reading your post).

Just wanted to say that I found your post touching. These are complicated issues of identity, that I’m not going to get into now, but I sometimes think that the Israel I keep missing is the Israel of 1973-2000 and I should probably update my beliefs and expectations for when I move back. And don’t get me wrong: Israel of 1973-2000 was far from perfect. But this was Israel I grew up in, and probably an Israel that no longer exists.

Comment on Healthy migration by Guy

Guy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:45:12 +0000

Just watching excerpts from a movie about Howard Zinn, and his phrase resonates in this context: you really _can’t_ be neutral on a moving train. Willful ignorance is equal to collaborating with the mainstream.

Not that I personally can say that I do much about it, but I would also never want to stop feeling uncomfortable about it, and am happy to whatever small gestures this discomfort may lead, as occasional as they are.

Comment on Healthy migration by Adam Grey

Adam Grey — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:01:16 +0000

Not Everything has to have a response.
Just looking or seeing something or acknowledging it can be enough.
I am not affected more then just a mere disappointment and i grow from there.
Many understandings make you grow and not only fall into a depression or other reactions.
It makes me look for other methods governing and living.
You choose what to believe what to embrace and what to leave behind.
I invest my talent and mind to researching and inventing new ways.
Every one of us CHOOSES the hell or heaven they live in.
I try to teach my loved ones to find their heaven and be free.
This is my little contribution to our world.
Maybe one day i’ll find a bigger answer i can share with the world.

Comment on Healthy migration by udi

udi — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:36:44 +0000

Julia, I haven’t read the entire book yet. I was spurred to write this post form reading the excerpt from the forward that I linked to:
““In its early years, Israel’s dominant ideology led to public provision of health care for all Jewish citizens-regardless of their age, income, or ability to pay. However, the system has shifted in recent decades, becoming increasingly privatized and market-based. In a familiar paradox, the wealthy, the young, and the healthy have relatively easy access to health care, and the poor, the old, and the very sick confront increasing obstacles to medical treatment.”

Adam, when you realized that the democratically-elected forces do not work for the good of the people, doesn’t this make you want to do something about it? Where are you in your grieving process? Depression? Acceptance?

Comment on Healthy migration by Adam Grey

Adam Grey — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:38:19 +0000

Hey man, good to see you are writing and taking action as you see fit.
Did you see :
The Ubama Deception: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

Zeitgeist : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197#docid=7065205277695921912

If you didn’t, you will find them VERY interesting.
If you have and understand in what world we are living in, it will be easier for you to accept that the public’s well being is not at all at the top of the interest pyramid of the people leading it.
They are playing a whole deferent game with a deferent set of rules and interests.
Udi, THEY don’t care about us.
As hard to accept as it is, it’s true.
Look around you.
I feels like loosing a parent.
It feels like being betrayed by the very structures you thought want to keep you safe.
We would do anything to avoid the acknowledgement of living in a world like that, and we are.
Cheers from the Holy Land…

Comment on Healthy migration by Tali

Tali — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:26:51 +0000

I believe that disengagement from the political sphere and the focus on our close others, personal happiness (and other new-age ideas) only make us more docile and perpetuate the status quo. Besides I always thought that personal happiness (in the hedonic sense) is extremely overrated.
I was not willing to admit even (moderate) hopes regarding Obama (and even less so regarding Pines) but was disappointed nevertheless. My greatest disappointment is the lost of public resistance (or even discontent). I am very happy that you share your discontents with us. Maybe they will help our
politicians to fail better next time…

Comment on Healthy migration by Julia

Julia — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:49:11 +0000

What makes daily life better or worse is the great ideas and the great changes that were made by people who worked little by little on a tiny, tiny thing.
I personally believe that Activism is our obligation as human beings.
(Udi, could you please tell more about what those changes in Israeli health care…?)

Comment on Healthy migration by udi

udi — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:47:37 +0000

This post actually came about from a very mundane consideration – several months ago I had moderate (in my opinion) hopes that the US congress would pass health care reform legislation that would allow me to get my health insurance through a government-run “public option”. I hoped that it would be a first step towards having a national health care system – medicare for all. As I followed the disgusting sausage-making involved in the legislative process, and came to realize that all they’re legislating is federal subsidies for more expensive private insurance, I began considering a life back in Israel, just imagining not ever fearing falling into bankruptcy caused by a medical problem in my family. You see – I’m the perennial idealist, and the eternal pragmatist. Then I was reminded that things may not be so rosy on the other side of the pond; not even in the narrow field of public health policy.
So, realizing that all is bad, I have come back to feeling outraged, and maybe I’ll even become active. Who knows.