Considering how close, geographically, Israel is to Egypt (we have a common border and Tel Aviv is only 5 hours bus ride from Cairo) asking if things are okay in Israel seems a fair question.
Quiet and no demonstrations even though at least half of Israel's population is opposed to Netanyahu and his government.
Nobody goes out into the streets demonstrating to remove him from power.
This isn't because the economic or political situation is better in Israel than in Egypt.
I'm not familiar with the situation in Egypt but I've seen that they have all the modern facilities, like roads, schools, industry, technology, entertainment, communications etc that any country could wish for.
It's simply because the people are expected to show gratitude to the great leader, virtually sent by Allah, for all the benefits they enjoy and naturally when these benifits are deficient the god sent leader is blamed.
It's like he must resign so that God can send another better leader.
In Israel no one sees the benifits he recieves, whatever they may be, as coming from Netanyahu and his government.
The citizens of Israel know that they themselves and not the govenment have provided any benefits, such as roads, hospitals, food, communication etc which they enjoy.
The govenment is the servant of the citizens and its responsibility is to spend the citizen's money on benifits which the citizens decide on.
The people in Israel feel very strongly that they themselves have created everything they have. They feel that they have a share in the way the country is run.
I'm not even sure that this is true but having that feeling they will never might rebel against the government and the govenment might fall but that will happen only by legal process and not by military coup.
In Israel it's easy to bring the govenment down we don't need a coup because thank goodness we have legal ways to do it.
So we've got peace and quiet here while our autocratic neighbors have to face the anger of their citizens in the streets.
Quiet and no demonstrations even though at least half of Israel's population is opposed to Netanyahu and his government.
Nobody goes out into the streets demonstrating to remove him from power.
This isn't because the economic or political situation is better in Israel than in Egypt.
I'm not familiar with the situation in Egypt but I've seen that they have all the modern facilities, like roads, schools, industry, technology, entertainment, communications etc that any country could wish for.
It's simply because the people are expected to show gratitude to the great leader, virtually sent by Allah, for all the benefits they enjoy and naturally when these benifits are deficient the god sent leader is blamed.
It's like he must resign so that God can send another better leader.
In Israel no one sees the benifits he recieves, whatever they may be, as coming from Netanyahu and his government.
The citizens of Israel know that they themselves and not the govenment have provided any benefits, such as roads, hospitals, food, communication etc which they enjoy.
The govenment is the servant of the citizens and its responsibility is to spend the citizen's money on benifits which the citizens decide on.
The people in Israel feel very strongly that they themselves have created everything they have. They feel that they have a share in the way the country is run.
I'm not even sure that this is true but having that feeling they will never might rebel against the government and the govenment might fall but that will happen only by legal process and not by military coup.
In Israel it's easy to bring the govenment down we don't need a coup because thank goodness we have legal ways to do it.
So we've got peace and quiet here while our autocratic neighbors have to face the anger of their citizens in the streets.
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