There was enough rumor about the appointment of Uncle Amsalem to the Israeli ambassador to the UK to provoke a wave of jokes that would not shame David Levi's jokes repertoire in the 1980s. "Sir David Amsalem", "The Bastionaire was sent to the UK to embarrass us" Experts with a name for the United Kingdom have adamantly ruled: "Uncle Amsalem is the least suitable to serve as ambassador." Inflation was also used in the word "shame". 

Uncle Amsalem is a sergeant. A symbol of the one that Israeli reality has designated for the role of footballer, barber or cop, and somehow he has shown leadership talent from an early age. A symbol of what was, at best, pushed for business committee work, or running a crime organization at the very least. Israeli Ambassador to the UK? You've been swept away!

Filled an Ambassador to Honduras or Ethiopia. But Britain? The United Kingdom, the Polite Kingdom, the capital of modernity, refinement and class. Do you really imagine Amsalem going for a meal with the Queen of England and getting involved in which fork to eat the flutter? We, located somewhere between Sweden and Denmark, cannot afford one of these in such a representative role.

You can give him some business job, in a field related to the street culture he came from. If there is no choice, we will make some concessions for democracy and even a junior minister. But for the representative roles or for those with a degree of rest of the spirit we owe characters in word-of-mouth. And Amsalem is the opposite of my state. And what is the Israeli, if not decent, state of the neo-Mafiniki middle class, who took a family as magnificent as the Amsalem family in Morocco, and made it here in a second generation synonymous with vulgarity and backwardness.

But this is not racism. No way? He just "doesn't fit." Somehow, the question of conformity does not come up with such pompous arrogance when it comes to the once-bourgeois flavorful bourgeois representative. There is a background, no background - these are never suspected of a built-in "mismatch". Amsalem in Buckingham, on the other hand, is an idea for a Borax movie, not the Foreign Service. 

Without cynicism, there is nothing that can make me happy if it turns out to be dawn to hear, and my uncle Amsalem will be appointed Israeli ambassador to Britain and break yet another stone in the hypocrisy of the Israeli elite, which so much wants to resemble Europe. For years, only the "state" of Israel and the elite were sent to the Western countries as ambassadors to the West. Now it's our turn, the Islamists. The UK will receive an Israeli ambassador representing Israeli society. She will receive a Moroccan Jew, who maintains a tradition that does not linger on her face as the light source of the world. A man who says what is on his mind, who has been fighting politics for years, in fact, the common man's war; Residents of Lifta Sh"mmlctiim "liked to call them invaders until a Amsalem and called them" Chalutzim ", or jails that nobody looked at them until Amsalem was appointed chairman of the Interior Committee. 

Dudu Amsalem, who comes from the bottom and worked his way against all odds given to him Those who designated him for a position as a star in the Mahane Yehuda market are already great ambassadors of Israelis. He represents me far more than all the racist, enlightened and polite people who mocked him in the last day. Adv .

Ofir Tubol is the founder of the Golden Age movement