The totalitarian system of Israel

Once I was standing in Rubashkin�s Crown restaurant in Boro Park. I was waiting in line with a Hungarian friend. While we wait he tells me: �In any other place they think you are doing them a favor by buying, here they are all Russians so they think they are doing a favor to you�. How true. The relics of the totalitarian system, the essence of bureaucracy. This occurred to me many times in Israel. A person behind the counter, a clerk in the airport, a taxi driver, they all think they are blessing you with attention not you providing the reason for their existence but purchasing the services. This is Israeli cardinal problem, the relic of the socialist mentality ingrained so deeply as to permeate and negatively color millions of daily exchanges. A jolt of supreme unpleasantness, a realization of the fatal flaw. One is not safe in Israel if at mercy of anyone.