Israeli artists leaving Israel (to Germany!)

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True, and if an artist's work is that good it'll be a self supporting profession.
Paying someone just to play around under the pretense of being an artist just to get paid probably isn't producing much worth looking at.

That's a good question...

Many, if not most of the world's reknowned artists died in abject poverty. Their masterpieces only appreciated in value posthumously.

Had we taken your logic to its conclusion, art heavyweights like Van Gogh, Edgar Allen Poe and Oscar Wilde would have been lost to obscurity.

What is Israel's loss could well be Germany's gain, ironically.

Oh well. We won't miss what we never had.

Germany will have it!

Untrue. Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and Da Vinci had been supported by the princess and nobles of their day, and they produced a ton of work. Today, the National Endowment for the Arts keep afloat working, achieving artists.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

We pay plenty of contractors to do just that.

I dont understand the cynicism surrounding the idea of supporting the art community economically.

what do bankers do that is worth paying for?

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the latter is precisely the point.

They also burnt books.
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They also stole a lot of art.

On top of that, they had destroyed Germany's artistic heritage. Art work associated with post-modernism, surrealism, dadaism, and any of the late 19th and 20th century artistic trends was rounded up by the Nazis and put on public display as Degenerate Art created by Jews (in fact, only a tiny minority of the artists were actually Jewish), then was sold abroad, and the money pocketed by the Nazis. And what replaced it? Sculpture and paintings of naked, muscular men with swords . Many of the German artists who were smart enough, and who had the means, such as George Grozs, had immigrated to America and elsewhere. Many of those who didn't died in concentration camps.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

If Israel is so economically strong, how come Americans who are in debt for trillions of dollars, still give Israel at least three billion dollars of aid every year? LINK TO BUSINESS INSIDER

I think you will find most American movies that America leads the world in, are in fact Jewish.

Back on topic, 25,000 Jews have refused a cash offer of up to £30,000 , to move from Iran, to Israel, you cannot even pay Jews to leave Iran for Israel, guess they ar'nt treated as badly as the media would have us believe.

LINK TO GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER

if Israel is so well off, why does it recieve to the tune of $10 000 in aid per Israeli citizen, every year from the USA?

Yeah, but those movie makers are American Jews, right? An American is an American.

-=Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

maybe i'm being slow but what do american movies have to do with the economic upkeep in Israel?

Granted most of hollywood is likely sympathetic to Israel but thats a tenuous connection.

If I understand the OP's link correctly, some individuals are intereviewed in a (very left-wing) newspaper, that they are moving to another country.

If you look long and hard enough, you might find a few individuals who want to leave the UK, a few who want to leave France, etc. In fact, I seem to recall that a number of artists left the UK in the last few decades. Should we read some great moral failing into the United Kingdom?

Leaving aside the Goodwin's law references, people like to move where the grass looks greener.

That is not good. U.S. citizens should not be subsidizing other countries.

However, if you look at the thing carefully "aid" to Israel is really a subsidy to U.S. corporations. The Israeli govt uses the money to buy weapons and other strategic material from U.S. corporations.

Even so, this nonsense should end.

ruveyn