Source: Backspin
Israelis don’t care about peace. That’s the conclusion Time magazine reporter Karl Vick would have us believe after quoting two Israelis (and nobody else):
“The people,” Heli says, “don’t believe.” Eli searches for a word. “People in Israel are indifferent,” he decides. “They don’t care if there’s going to be war. They don’t care if there’s going to be peace. They don’t care. They live in the day.”
Memo to Vick: Please talk to a few more Israelis –or persuade me that two Tel Aviv condo salesmen, Heli Itach and Eli Bengozi, are an accurate representative sample of some seven million Israelis.
I’m guessing that the other Israelis Vick talked to were dropped from the abridged online version of the story — if you want to read the full story, you have to either pay for the magazine or an iPad app. Fair enough. But what’s left on their web site doesn’t answer the original headline’s question: