Ex-IDF being trained to be sushi chefs

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The U.S. can't even pay for decent medical and psychological care for it's own veterans, yet Israel obviously isn't so proverty stricken that they can non-chalantly spend money to make sure those nasty foreigners aren't working in their country. The hubris of the Israeli government is just breathtaking. Threaten to cut ANY aid and it is met with the shrill screams of ANTI-SEMITE!

From Haaretz:

Israel allocates funds to help former IDF soldiers become sushi chefs

Demobilized soldiers will be able to study Asian cooking this year at the government's expense, as part of an effort to reduce the number of foreign workers employed as cooks in Asian restaurants by training Israeli professionals to replace them.

While America shuts down fire houses, cuts infant nutrition, US subsidizes Israel army sushi courses

It’s shocking for two reasons – one is the xenophobia that is rising to astonishing heights in Israel: not even the cooks of foreign cuisine can be foreign (I’ll come back to this) – but because of what it says about how Israel is using US military aid at a time of drastic cuts and austerity for American citizens.

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The U.S. can't even pay for decent medical and psychological care for it's own veterans, yet Israel obviously isn't so proverty stricken that they can non-chalantly spend money to make sure those nasty foreigners aren't working in their country. The hubris of the Israeli government is just breathtaking. Threaten to cut ANY aid and it is met with the shrill screams of ANTI-SEMITE!

From Haaretz:

Israel allocates funds to help former IDF soldiers become sushi chefs

Demobilized soldiers will be able to study Asian cooking this year at the government's expense, as part of an effort to reduce the number of foreign workers employed as cooks in Asian restaurants by training Israeli professionals to replace them.

You can't blame the entire Israeli population. They have a few liberals in power pushing idiotic policies just as America does.