© ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP/GettyFormer Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem on 15 May 2022
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday called on Israelis not to leave Israel, "which is going through its most difficult times since 1948".
"We are in the most difficult period since the War of Independence: Change in the war,
international boycotts, damage to deterrence, 120 Israelis in captivity, thousands of bereaved families,
a deserted Galilee, thousands of evacuees, ministers who only care about themselves, loss of control over the economy and the deficit," he wrote in
a post on X after saying that he was "very sad" to hear a software engineer he knew was moving to Europe.
"Talks about leaving the country. This must not happen," he continued, adding: "We need all the talent and dedication of the people of Israel just to get out of the pit and relaunch Israel."
He assured people: "But unequivocally we are capable โ and we will get out โ of this pit."
While there is no official data on the number of Israelis who have left since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, the Hebrew news website the Times of Israel said on Sunday that
more than half a million Israelis left and did not return in the first six months of the war.
Even before Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza, business had begun transferring money out of the occupation state because of planned judicial reforms being floated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which many worried would bring an end to democracy in the country and leave companies unprotected.
Comment: It's rather telling that, despite Israel waging much of its genocide from afar with cowardly airstrikes on civilians, it's still been struggling to recruit from its otherwise fanatical, Zionist, and largely genocidal, supporters; many of whom were rather quick to ditch the 'homeland', too. Without Zionists, Israel will of course cease to exist, and perhaps its leadership hadn't fully thought through the consequences of all aspects of its schemes.
Although, it seems that the terrorists in Israel, and its cheerleaders, merely have to push back the burgeoning collapse long until the time they're able to drag the rest of the world into their greater Israel/End of Days project:
Bennetts full post:
Do not leave the country.
Yesterday a brilliant software engineer I know told me that they are leaving Israel for a country in Europe before the start of the upcoming school year.
It made me very sad.
True, we are in the most difficult period since the War of Independence:
Shuffle in the war, international boycotts, damage to deterrence, 120 Israelis in captivity, thousands of bereaved families, abandoned Galilee, thousands of evacuees, ministers who only care about themselves, loss of control over the economy and the deficit.
All true.
But unequivocally we are capable โ and we will get out โ of this pit.
This situation is not destiny.
But there is one thing that worries me in particular:
Talks about leaving the country.
This must not happen.
We need all the talent and dedication of the people of Israel just *to* get out of the pit and relaunch Israel.
I have no doubt that with proper active action, of renewal, a sort of restart for Israel,
The next 50 years will be years of rebuilding, creative joy, security and growth.
It will happen much faster than you imagine,
Because we are a people that knows how to get up quickly from a hard blow.
Remember: a total of 3 years (!) after the terrible Holocaust, we established the State of Israel.
Who wants to return to the days of the wandering Jew, without real freedom, without a state, subject to every anti-Semitic whim?
Therefore, not Cyprus, not Portugal, not New Jersey or Australia.
stay here,
And Israel was created anew.
A joke: What is a favourite wine of a New Jersey jewish woman?
I wanna go ta Miami.....
LOL...