Connecting the Dots: Whistling Past The Graveyard -- Signs of the Times News: "In a country where
18 families control 60% of the equity value of all companies, it's little wonder that there is nothing to distinguish one political party from the next. With such a clannish concentration of power, a society's culture gradually loses any semblance of normal humanity. Whereas teenagers in normal countries go on summer camps to learn or participate in something constructive, in Israel some 70,000 teens are enlisted as police volunteers and are quietly conscripted into the state's military apparatus. 'Summer camp' in this context means helping to remove the belongings of Palestinians before bulldozers and riot police move in to destroy people's homes. An
entire village was destroyed in this way in late July. Is it any wonder that
1 in 8 Israeli teenagers have mental disorders? (Although we suspect this figure is much higher for Israeli males). Meanwhile Palestinian children are routinely detained in Israeli prisons and the government is set to
expel hundreds of children of 'illegal immigrants' (in their own land) on the basis that they represent 'a tangible threat to the Jewish and democratic character of the state of Israel,' according to prime minister Netanyahu"
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