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K
ibbutznik Yehuda
Ya'ari is fed up with
life in Israel and has
announced that he will leave
the country.
He is not the first Israeli to
make such a decision, nor,
without doubt, is he the last.
But Ya'ari is special by virtue
of having served for three
years as editor of Kibbutz,
weekly organ of the United
Kibbutz Movement, and is us-
ing its pages, in the last week
of his editorship, to explain
why he no longer wishes to
live in Israel.
Ya'ari finds reason to
criticize almost every aspect
of Israel life. He castigates the
bus drivers, for their rude
behavior; the politicians, for
their stupidity and dishones-
ty; the machoistic men, for de-
nying women their rightful
place in society; the phone
company, for bad service; the
tradesmen, for cheating their
customers; and the teachers,
for caring more about their
salaries than about
education.
But over and above
everything also, he is distress-
ed about the way that Arabs
are being treated.
His distress becomes par-
ticularly severe when he is
faced by questions from Neta,
his bright, 71/2-year-old son.
"How am .I to answer him,"
Ya'ari asks rhetorically,
"when he asks me what Arab
children do when Gaza is put
under curfew for three days;
whether it is true that an
Israeli Army colonel ordered
his men to break the arms
and legs of Arab prisoners;
and why all Arabs are
punished when only some of
them throw stones?"
Ya'ari has no satisfactory
replies for his son; all he can
offer Neta is a dark vision of
a dismal future. Fm-, as the
kibbutz journalist sees it, "We
Israelis are only here to red-
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den the soil withour blood, to
die for a goal that will never
be achieved."
Such brutal words evoked
heated reactions from many
of the readers of Kibbutz and
of Davar Hashavua, in which
Ya'ari's article was reprinted.
A fellow member of his own
settlement, Eliezer Sharef,
charged that Ya'ari's words
"will encourage Arab ex-
tremists who believe that a
little more effort 'and a bit
more terror will bring the
whole Zionist edifice tumbl-
ing down.
"Of course, they are wrong,"
Sharef goes on, "but their er-
ror will cost them and us
dearly.
"Those who lack the
strength to continue the
struggle should perhaps leave
the country, but," he con-
cludes, "'let them do it quiet-
y•"
Another kibbutznik, Dr.
Emanuel Skoler of Tzealim,
says that he has often found
very different behavior from
that described by Ya'ari dur-
ing his service as an army
doctor in the Territories.
"I treated soldiers," he
writes, "who were injured
because they refused to fire at
stone-throwing youngsters
and others who were shiver-
ing in the winter cold because
they gave their own blankets
to Arab prisoners."
Dan Margalit, an Ha'aretz
columnist, wonders why
Ya'ari's intelligent son asks
about the suffering of Arabs
but doesn't want to know why
Jews travelling from Tel Aviv
to Jerusalem were burned
alive when an Arab terrorist
sent their bus crashing into a
ravine; or, for that matter,
why Arabs have burned so
many trees in a land they
claim belongs to them.
"In Israel's situation,"
Margalit argues, "Yehuda
Ya'ari is not an emigrant, he
is a deserter."
In fact, Ya'ari will probably
not leave at all because his
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