Monday Dec 10, 2007
Posted by Jeremy Cardash
The English have a long and well-documented love affair with the French. OK not so much love as mutual understanding. Actually, who am I fooling, it's been a disaster.
From the day William the Conqueror waltzed into London and said "I am you're new King and everyone has to eat frogs legs and soufflé", it's been downhill. Especially as most of Northern France was once part of England. Didn't know that, eh? Well read you're history books. Then came Waterloo, Trafalgar and many other battles, but we kicked their behinds every time. In fact the Brits have never lost a significant battle since. They have always bounced back. Today the wars take on different personas; instead of soldiers we have diplomats and French lorry drivers that burn sheep.
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Dan, San Jose, USA: To #4 - There is a very good reason why Australia is one of the only developed countries where natives do their own dirty work. The Austrialian government takes immigration enforcement seriously and there are genuine sanctions on companies that hire illegal workers. If Israel followed Australia's example, you would see that Israeli Jews are perfectly willing to get their hands dirty. However, they are not willing to get robbed by empolyers who take advantage of exploitable foreign labor. Israel would really increase Aliya by showing diapora jews that there are jobs there are jobs there.
Melbournite, Melbourne: I worked as a construction worker when I was a student in northern Israel. Among the workers, both skilled and unskilled, I was the only Jew, and there also was a Russian guy who looked pretty much Slav to me. All the rest were bedouin Arabs.
The only "dirty" job Israelis do, is taxi driving, and also some of the commodity manufacturing plants. I can't explain why.
While Israel is definitely not unique in this respect, there are still developed countries where dirty stuff is done by the natives. Australia, for example.
Yored, Yoridia: you forgot the inane, useless "psychometric" tests, no thanks, never again
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