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There's nothing wrong with a person from country X saying he expects better behavior from fellow people coming from country X. That's all that happened here. There's no reason at all for people to get so touchy about it.

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If you took what he said but replaced "as an Israeli myself" with "I'm not Israeli", it would be racist. That's what annoys me. It might be different if race/ethnicity/religion were involved in the article.

That's just being cynical. Israeli national sport is to point out Israeliness/jewishness (two completely different things, IMHO) of anything that smells of success. We love to do this when it's positive, we try to hide it when it's not. Like in this case. My first suspicion was that it was an Israeli, not because I saw the name and suspected. I had no clue. Just a suspicion which was verified. My reasons are probably my own experience in Hi Tech in Israel and the abundance of indian programmers in many of our own local companies.

PS-0 And don't get me started on how racist the jewish diaspora is, or Israelis, in general. Towards black, arabs, other jews etc. It's a stinking pile of self-hatred and racism.

PS-1 You can down vote as much as you want, it does not change the sad and ugly truth.

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