right wingers

Today, a breath of fresh air. I spent some time with Orit and Alon, who are Amit's brother and sister-in-law. We had a really nice lunch at a place called Reading (I think) which is a new boardwalk development in the north port of Tel Aviv. It is a fat wooden boardwalk lined with dozens of restaurants and gelato spots and mega-clubs and bars and whatever. It was a gorgeous day and lots of people were sitting around drinking coffee and soaking up the sun. (It's supposed to rain tomorrow for a couple of days.)

Orit and Alon, as some of you know, are not like the left-wing, anarchist-leaning ISraelis and Americans that I know from working at Camp Tawonga. They are pretty right of center, and hate Olmert and think that he is "giving Israel away" to the Arabs. It is always entertaining to hear their point of view. I'm not unfamiliar with this line of thought, but they deliver it in such an entertaining way. I learned important ISraeli slurs like "waqsh," which means I guess a sloppy idiot Israeli. Alon says that 70% of Israelis are waqshim, and 20% are arsim. I guess that leaves 10% anarcho-queer right wingers?