The Best of the Best

One of the great dilemmas faced by Diaspora Jews encountering obnoxious Israelis is this: On the one hand, these Israelis give the country a very bad reputation. They travel around the world (especially India), they piss people off, they are rude. They hit on women with an almost unparalled degree of sleaze. Indeed, their pursuit of tail is so shameless and relentless that the women on our trip were provided with an organized discussion session (which we men sat through) on how to avoid them and deal with them. On the other hand, these Arsim (as they are called) may very well be the ones who take out Hamas terrorist cells. They are the front line. Those Israelis you want to hate are often the real defenders of the state. This problem remains unresolved. Fortunately, there areplenty of great soldiers who are great people outside the army as well.