West Bank settler officially invited to Obama inaugural
Ariel Lang, a 22-year-old settler in the West Bank, has been officially invited to attend Barack Obama’s inauguration in Washington on January 20.
Lang, who immigrated from Chicago to Israel as a child and thinks that US President George W. Bush “wants to destroy Israel,” voted by absentee ballot for Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Lang lives in the Rimonim settlement, only a twenty minute drive to Jerusalem (twenty minutes if you’re Jewish). Lang’s settlement provides him and his two siblings a half-Olympic sized swimming pool, supermarket, post office, nursery, kindergarten, mikvah, library, and youth center.
The Jersualem Post article reporting this news says that “Lang, who has serious learning disabilities, served in an IDF tank unit and then in military intelligence.”
It actually says that.
