While these Leftists talk about "cycle of violence", children from Sderot will perform in the US and carry a message for Americans about the plight of innocent Jewish children suffering from Arab terror. "A delegation of Russian-speaking children from a Sderot community theater left Tuesday morning for the United States. The goal of their trip is to convey to American Jews what residents of the bombarded western Negev are going through. In a series of performances, the young Sderot players will dramatize life under the threat of enemy rocket attacks." More info at INN

is going to cease to exist. Israel is becoming this crazy "pseudo" ultra democratic country where, in actuality, the minority rules. This is wrong in democratic terms and, undoubtedly, dangerous. I feel sorry for all the normal, honest, hard working people who have to see their beloved country going down the drain. Maybe the jews dont deserve a country after all. There's too much self-hatered in them !!!

Why don't our psychotic leftist "intellectual elites" do something about their convictions against Jews and Israel? Hey, they seem to hate us at least as much as Hamas (and certainly are causing comparable damage). Why don't these traitors just blow themselves up on a bus somewhere, like their "poor, oppressed" victims/heroes do? At least it'll rid us of their vile poison.

That Jews are so self-hating that they don't deserve their country, or that they don't care enogh about their land, since they negotiate it away so easily. And you're right about a minority having taken over the country. The Left is taking advantage of the system left in place by the early Marxists, who designed the government and social institutions so that the Left would always have an amount of influence completely disproportionate to their real numbers. Think of the Courts and their huge power. Or the way leaders are selected by the political parties instead of directly by the electorate. Only radical change can save Israel. But Israelis need to demand it.

... and by all means defund Habima. There is no need for government subsidy, which means taxing people.

It's SO pathetic that there are these weird and obsessed idiotic creeps who think that if a self-critical play is shown in Israel it means the country is going down the drain, has been taken over by "self-hating Marxist elites," and all the other rubbish we read here. What are they on? What kind of bizarre pathology makes a person's brain work in this way? It's really weird.

Why all the vitriol in your response? - weird, obsessive, creeps, idiotic, rubbish, bizarre, pathology, weird (again). Don't you have any ideas of your own to offer? This sounds like the rantings of a spoiled 5 year old. Grow up, read, inform yourself.

Perhaps if YOUR town was shelled by missles, & blown up by suicide bombers on a regular basis, you too, would also have what you describe as a 'bizarre pathology that makes a person's brain work in this way' Perhaps if YOUR brother or cousin was being held hostage by Arab terrorists, you too, would develop a 'bizarre pathology that makes a person's brain work in this way'. Perhaps if your relatives were lynched by an angry Islamic mob, you too, would develop a 'bizarre pathology that makes a person's brain work in this way'. So before ridiculing Israelis for being too paranoid and sensitive about Terrorism, along with underestimating our suffering, how about showing some empathy for what people experience here on a regular basis without belittling those who oppose 'plays' which portray our murderous enemies as innocent angels, while portraying IDF soldiers as wicked barbaric demons.

I reply to postings that call half the population of Israel crazy, self-hating, psychotic, traitors? I'm the one with with the vitriol? My ideas to offer? Ignore a play you don't like. Who said anything about ignoring terrorism? We're talking about a play here. I don't see Noam Shalit demonstrating outside, although his son is being held prisoner...but then according to you lot, he's probably a traitor too.

Israel seems to be getting that above statement backwards: Minority rules.... Won't work, never has. If we brazenly ally with our enemies, swallow their propaganda, concede land for empty promises and emasculate the security forces... then... Russia nor Syria could not harm us better themselves. The majority must rule, we can preserve minority rights, and John Stewart Mills can stop spinning in his grave.

Does anyone remember the golden globe award winning paradise now? (also funded by Israeli taxes) Why is it that if I am horrified at terrorism, I am considered a fanatical creep by people like david? Why do the palestinians have the moral highground? Also, where are their plays protesting the evils of their society? David, you really make my skin crawl. Your more than a bit sick and twisted if you support palestinian terrorism.

For a certain type of ultra right wing Zionist ANY dissent ANY questioning is treason.These fanatics are as anti democratic as Hamas,Their vision is a racist theocratic fascist Israel,They WILL NOT PREVAIL!

...Israeli artists, poets, authors. they are are too generous to themselves, too complacent. and they eschew any constructive engagement with society. for them, it is always about how they can destroy, denigrate, deprecate. they are an infantile and irresponsible lot. Israel deserves better.

Self-hatred among Jews is beyond comprehension. They should all move to Gaza and live among the savages and leave the civilized Jews in Israel.

there are good people on both sides who understand each other , but unfortianatly the bad ones out number the good ones , and this will never end until we stop the bad ones and support the good ones , i guess some people do not deserve to live in a democrecy and must be stoped with an iron fist , just like many of the talkbakers on this site , which they make lots of good peaceloving israelis look bad .. i will go and watch this play as soon as possible with lots of my freinds and family to support the good people on both sides .....

Does the play describe the massacre and ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Jewish town of Hebron in 1929, or does it act as if history began in '67 with the "occupation" of an "Arab" town?? Be honest. If the former, good job. If the later,than you can't honestly say it's a balanced play.

#15, I really see no connection between right wing Zionist Jews, and Hamas Terrorists who've blown thousands of your brothers and sisters to pieces. How many Arabs were blown up by right wing Zionist Jews? Odd comparison. You speak of how the right would wish to establish a theocracy. Yet it is you, who seems to be advocating a theocratic, fascist regime in which there would be no freedom of speech. Well, no freedom of speech for anyone with whom you disagree -- so typical of leftists..lol #19, you say: ..."guess some people do not deserve to live in a democrecy and must be stoped with an iron fist , just like many of the talkbakers on this site"... I see, so in other words, anyone with whom you disagree does not deserve free speech and must be dealt with an iron fist (your words)...And you leftists claim to be the guardians of democracy? Ironically, these attacks are always orchestrated by those who claim to champion equality, free speech and a democratic society. Apparently, this is not the case, otherwise they would not be trying to silence people with whom they disagree. It seems to me, that the vast majority of leftists consider free speech a right privileged only for themselves.