Like us, they've got a system for providing universal health care:
About six weeks ago, on an Educational Television program journalist Gal Gabbay revealed the results of interviews with 35 Ethiopian immigrants. The women’s testimony could help explain the almost 50-percent decline over the past 10 years in the birth rate of Israel’s Ethiopian community. According to the program, while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection. “They told us they are inoculations,” said one of the women interviewed. “They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn’t want to.”
Just don't call it a kinder, gentler version of ethnic cleansing . . .
To be honest, I really couldn't care less what racist shitheads the Likud Israelis are, or how crappily they treat their ethnic minorities. It's their country, they can do what they want, as far as I'm concerned. What pisses me off about these kinds of stories, though, is the fact that we're helping to foot the bill for this stuff. If our leaders are genuinely serious about deficit reduction, I can think of a line item in the next Appropriations Act where we could find some defensible cost savings.
---Baron V
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