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SRB: An Israeli View of Aotearoa
Havaya newzealandit ("A New Zealand Experience") by
Shifra Horn
Olamot Travel Books (Hebrew),
Am Oved, NIS 75 Reviewed by YOSSI KLEIN
Here are
some facts compiled by author Shifra Horn for those wishing
to escape the hell that is the Middle East for the paradise
of New Zealand: In New Zealand, parents beat their children,
and the locals frighten tourists (there was a time when they
even ate them) and despise foreigners, Jews in particular.
They justify their anti-Semitism by pointing to Israel's
policies in the territories. They're alcoholics and misers,
they take cover behind a ridiculous veil of political
correctness, and they contend with stampedes of millions of
sheep that descend upon them like flatulence. Horn offers
praise, however, for New Zealand's rich flora, its beautiful
birdlife and its clean air. More...
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