We are rich!

Wait, does that make us unholy?

Corruption has entwined the government with sticky, malodorous tentacles. Prime Minister himself is under serious police investigation, confronting allegations of bribe-taking. Former Minister of Finance has already been convicted of stealing money from the National Labor Federation (that was before he joined the government: one would think the act served as a recommendation). Former President is undergoing a complicated juridical process pertaining to accusations of sexual abuse, and even rape; a cherry of moral decay to top the larceny cake.

Now I am not a communist and I don’t hate capitalist-imperialist pigs. I think they deserve to live in a separate, more comfortable piggery. I acknowledge the importance of private capital for a healthy democratic economy: I am willing to keep my snout out of their premises if they are willing to repay me with the same courtesy.

But they aren’t.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer — we all know the equation. The holy land’s rich make it work by corrupting the government, a small, susceptible system that consists of about thirty (!) ministers and is torn apart by small interests of even smaller parties. More frustrating is the cynical abuse of Zionist agenda: multi-millionaires claim that they can take their business elsewhere and that they keep it here for the nation’s benefit. In return, they receive unreasonable tax cuts and exemptions.

Nobody seems to care that Jerusalem itself is our capital — a holy historic city.

But then, even that is not completely true. Jerusalem is a disputed territory and Palestinians claim that at least some parts of it should be declared as the capital of Palestine.

Perhaps this is where it all begins: how a state lacking set borders for its entire existence span can hope to shake off said tentacles? How can greed be contained if it is officially endorsed by snatching Palestinian territories?