Fear-mongering has consequences: Israeli passport version

Gideon Levy devotes a column to a growing trend among Israeli citizens to take a second passport from a different country, including 100,000 with a German passport: (Another ) passport for every worker Haaretz 06/02/2011. Levy thinks it's an indication of a greater feeling of insecurity on the part of Israelis, spurred by government fear-mongering:

The scare campaigns have been effective, and the passport applicants are responding in an intelligent and sensible way. It turns out that they are far more rational than their leaders: If the leaders so want to scare us of the Iranian bomb, the Muslim Brothers in Egypt and the hooligans from Gaza, if everything threatens to become a "Holocaust," then it really does make sense to equip oneself with suitable means of protection. An additional passport, for example.

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