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Report reveals 1.6 million Israelis living in poverty
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A quarter of the Israeli population living in poverty A report by Israel’s National Insurance Institute shows that another 100,000 people fell below the poverty line in Israel bringing the total impoverished to 1.6m or 24.7% of the population. The report also indicated that Israel at 35% had the highest child poverty rate amongst capitalist countries. Much of this has been caused by various cutbacks in social spending from previous military adventures with further cuts planned as a result of the most recent war in Lebanon. Unemployment is also running at 9%. This report is interesting because it provides an insight into Israeli that we don't normally here about and reveals there are sharp differences between the haves and have nots and their are clearly deep social problems. It also shows that Israeli capitalism is quite happy to impoverish their own despite the rhethoric we so often hear to the contrary. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4"It is quite clear that much of the extreme right-wing politics of that country serves to distract and divide the population and take the focus off social conditions and real peace, so as to continue the status quo and allow the great disparties to exist."
After Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets into Northern Israel and hit Haifa and 6 years of relentless attacks by Palestinian suicide bombers and almost fifty years of Islamic fundementalists and Arab nationalists bent on finishing the job that Hitler failed to complete, I don't think I would worry too much about whether Ariel Sharon, Simon Peres or Benjamin Netanyahu are sleazy politicians or not.
Maybe you should investigate the criminal mafia who run the Palestinian Authority. Yes, those guys who are able to live in luxury and drive SUV's and Mercedes using EU cash and fund their own private terrorist armies while their people are illiterate and living in ramshackle refugee camps.
indeed
. . . . as opposed, presumably, to Palestinians and Lebanese DYING in poverty?
and British citizens. They live in poverty because they are not of the elite who manipulate
global politics and reduce democratic participation through culture destruction and
unfair use of resources.
Surely what happened after Hurricane katherina showed the underbelly of the
globalised principle of an elitist race, born out of greed and grounded in
materialist war of attrition- they lost it btw.
Hint: centre parties in the EU, Irish, and British states-western democracies
are branding politics to create a nationalist ideal based on a massive lie which
involves the 50% of electorates who buy the branding and reduction in democratic
rights, the rest are ghettoised and live in poverty.
The elite are represented by the G8, IMF, EU banks and all the NGO's that are
controlled and finaced to provide an illusion of equality. there are ongoing
reductions of democratic rights in most EU countries that are traceable to
corporate entities which hold the hand of the' legislators'- a brave new
world. and we are colluding in it's creation.