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Postcard from ... Tel Aviv

Funny, isn't it, that as soon as Israel is mentioned, the holier-than-thou brigade come out to play. Why should it be unacceptable to decree (in public, at least) that you are enjoying yourself, living in a country as an expat, without expressing disgust at the regime (which, unlike many other cities to which lawyers get sent, is actually a democracy). No doubt those who have felt the need to comment on life in Tel Aviv, will be just as eager to criticise postcards from Dubai, where you can wind up in prison for kissing someone on the cheek in public, postcards from Singapore whose capital and corporal punishment systems are a real delight or postcards from Beijing where you can't find out what's going on in the world because of government censorship. I choose not to live in any of these places because I don't approve, but that doesn't mean to say that I can't fathom someone else living there could actually be enjoying herself. Give Natalie a break- the article is called "Postcard from Tel Aviv" not "thesis on the rights and wrongs of a state that most readers know pretty little about".

14-Apr-2010

3:22 pm