hope for change

If you are anti-Israel, or you just do not like Israel – read this article!

Read the article no matter what you think about Israel.  This is a man with a plan, plain-talking and sensible.  He may be the solution to my difficulty in deciding how to vote in the January 2013 Knesset elections.

The Knesset needs many more people who think like Aatef Karinaoui, putting the good of the citizens and the whole country ahead of politicians self-interest.

This is what he says about current Arab MK’s:  “…All the bad things they say about Israel and its supposed ill-treatment of Arabs is a lie, a bald-faced lie,” he says intently, just moments after we’ve sat down. “Arab members of Knesset are setting a fire. They feed off of the politics of division and don’t represent the Arab public. The Arab Knesset members do nothing to educate them or advance their situation… But [at present] there is no alternative to the current leadership…”

This is what he says about living in Israel:  “…We want to prove that we are loyal and faithful citizens,” he says. “And we also need more attention and support from the state.… I’m a proud Arab and a proud Israeli too. I’m not Palestinian.… Look at Syria. Look at Egypt, look at Libya, look at Tunisia, and look at Bahrain: the problem is not Israel, it’s the Arabs…”