Israeli Poverty Reaches Record Levels

[Ian David]

Israeli Poverty Reaches Record Levels
January 26th, 2006 by Mobius

Totally Jewish reports,

The level of poverty in Israel rose to unprecedented levels in the first half of 2005 according to official figures released this week.

The revelation sparked alarm amongst politicians, with opposition MKs slamming the government’s economic policies.

The National Insurance Institute’s annual poverty report showed that the total number of Israelis considered poor reached a record 1.6million, up from just over 1.5million in 2004.

According to the study, 738,100 children, more than a third of youngsters in Israel, remain below the poverty line, an increase of 24,500 from 2004.

NII director Yigal Ben Shalom said that the number of families defined as poor rose by nearly 10,000 to 403,400. Anyone earning less than 1,777 shekels (216UKP) a month, half the national average salary in 2004, was classed as impoverished by the report.

During the four years Ariel Sharon was in power the number of poor Israelis increased by 45 per cent.

Thank you Bibi. May you rot for your crimes against your people.

Anyone voting for Likud, Kadima and even Labor is voting for more of this.

More:
http://jewschool.com/?p=9976

[Poll_Blind]

1. With conservatives at the helm their nation as gone to shit, just...

...like ours!!!

PB

[tatertop]

2. Amazing how many cannot see that

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Sharon was a Nationalist

Bibi is a classical neocon. There is a difference.

[Violet_Crumble]

5. Bibi is NOT a neoconservative...

And conservatives can be nationalists...

Violet...

[Coastie for Truth]

7. Bibi's father - when he taught at Cornell - followed Leo Strauss

and Bibi's adviser, Rolando, was into a Sraussian world view many years ago.

Leo Strauss's world view is neo-con.

Conservatism and nationalism are not mutually exclusive - I never said that they were.

(I have started reading Leo Strauss's writing - heavy, heavy Germanic style with a certain sicko, bizzaro sense of the uber-menchen and unter-menchen -- definite sign of mental illness - which describes most neo-cons)

[Violet_Crumble]

8. How does that make Bibi a neo-con???

Strauss was not a neoconservative. His world view was that of a conservative. While he was a forerunner for neoconservatism, that does not mean that his worldview was a neoconservative one. And even if Strauss was, what Bibi's father followed does not mean that his offspring automatically must follow it...

Here's a bit of a clue as to why bibi isn't a neocon: Is Bibi an American?

Yr post strongly implied that Sharon wasn't a conservative as he was a nationalist...

Violet...

[Englander]

10. Both were/are Conservatives. n/t

[leveymg]

4. So much for "A Clean Break" - Sharon followed The Plan to a T, and just

look what happened.

The point of the neocon game plan of external expansion was really to carry out INTERNAL regime change, and to kill the ideal of social democracy. Well, they got it.

Nice world they've created, isn't it?

[Ian David]

6. Conservatives are a plague upon every nation on the planet.

The only path towards progress is Progressives!

[Darranar]

9. Neoliberal economics at its best.

Inexcusable.

[RJnAbbysNana]

11. If they would stop construction of the apartheid wall,

they might have enough money to feed their hungry for a while; and if they hadn't even started its construction, they probably wouldn't be in the predicament they're now experiencing.

Furthermore, it costs money to arm the IOF and its incursions into occupied territories to kill innocent Palestinians, and discontinuing that nasty little practice would "free up" additional monies to relieve poverty.

What about the operating costs for the Caterpillar D-9's used to demolish Palestinian homes and businesses? Couldn't that money be used to relieve poverty instead? Also, they have to pay those D-9 operators, don't they? Couldn't their wages be used to..........

(I think you get the picture by now, don't you?)

Regards

RJnAbbysNana

P.S. Priorities, priorities, priorities!!!!!

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