Welcome to Racketstan. Haaretz [Israeli newspaper] May 27, 2001 "The Israeli temperament does not accept rules of behavior and rejects natural obedience to the law. The average Israeli is afraid to feel like a sucker, so scorns rules and regulations and regards the law as a area of ever-expendable space in which to maneuver, outwit, bypass, and bribe, if necessary, in order to achieve more ... Israel is a kind of Racketstan, where the system encourages racketeering."