Bibi, in future if you need an eye doctor, just call Bashar al-Assad , very soon he will be unemployed ; ) Better a man you know than a man you don't know .

I am an Israeli surgeon. I am not and have never been a member of the Israel Medical Association IMA. Many clinicians are not since it is a nasty little organisation that does not serve doctors interests. It is the right of any emplyee to resign, so long as he hands in his resignation letter as per notice period in his contract. Doctors are not slaves they can strike, resign and go look for work in other countries. I am now in London. I earn more here in a day than I did in Israel in one month. I still visit Israel to lecture, undertake sugical demonstrations etc. but you will see that the best doctors will all leave and patients in Israel will be left with sub-optimal health care. It is a sad situation but doctors need to adapt to this and decide what they want to do.

Whilst I have little respect for the current agenda of the 'Palestinian' cause and I must say that whilst our politicians are a disgrace and care little for the Israeli people I believenthat your politicians are worse than ours! In any case I was involved in the nineties in courses for Palestinian doctors, visits to Palestinian hospitals etc and we have Palestinian residents in our hospitals and on a medical professional level we get on very well and it is a pleasure to work with you guys. The same can be said of Syrian doctors, Saudi, Libyan etc. I just came back from a course in Luxembourg and we all got on very well. I happen to speak arabic (my parents are from Aden) and I can safely say I have never heard an anti-Jewish utterence from any Arab doctor I have dealt with. I believe that in some way perhaps the excellent medical co-operation that Israeli doctors have with Arab doctors could be in the future a basis for more constructive dialogue about other matters.

If Bibi wants to have even the slightest chance of winning the next election he needs to sort this out ASAP. Thanks to the social justice campaigns and Labor getting themselves a female with no baggage as their new leader they have gone from a position where they were expected to lose more seats to being favorite. The female leader will also cost Livni the woman's vote and it's thanks tithes she did so well last time. Right now Bibi needs to sort out the doctors and implement Trajtenburg as he promised to do otherwise it looks like he has just ignored the protests and so he should go. Bibi needs now a mixture of both right and center left bills to try and satisfy as many groups as he can and he is running out of time because he has maximum of one year before he has to hold elections.

I have a great respect for "Israeli" doctors, and i really appreciate them.