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What's in Propaganda: "Hora Torah" | Israel today

2020-02-15T22:18:06.000Z


Tu video in the tribe of Torah Judaism • The message cannot be ignored, which expresses a breaking of the rigid ultra-Orthodox line, and requires an appreciation for Israeli politics


Tu video in the tribe of Torah Judaism • The message cannot be ignored, which expresses a breaking of the rigid ultra-Orthodox line, and requires an appreciation for Israeli

  • From the video of Torah Judaism

A furrowing tractor, the Israeli flag is carried over the Western Wall stones, Ben-Gurion, IDF soldiers in the Israeli wars and a pathos-and-citrus narration - these are key elements in classic Israeli propaganda cuisine.

Potential voters are already accustomed to meeting this propaganda, and there is usually nothing special to learn from or about. But it was precisely this kind of banal election video released last week that told a deep and wide story of Israeli society and its internal currents. Not because of special creativity or spectacular production, but because of who created them, and decided to miraculously embrace the symbols and images of the main Zionist stream in the country: the Torah Judaism Party.

The leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi party and its advisers should not be suspected innocently. They are not looking for new audiences, and it is clear that passionate Zionist secularists will not rush to them. The declaration of Ben-Gurion's independence, Netanyahu alongside Trump and the State of Israel as the fulfillment of a 2,000-year-old dream - all directed inward. They are intended to elaborate on warm feelings and pride in the country and its achievements, and on the ultra-Orthodox aspiration for partnership and great involvement in the Great Miracle - even if it was achieved thanks to its harshest opponents of the ultra-Orthodox, and even if noble opponents of the past should be presented.

Torah Judaism, of course, did not abandon its traditional conceptions. The videos emphasize the Torah and its commandments and the fact that the State of Israel is part of a religious continuity, a link in the historical chain that Gd triumphs over. But the message, which expresses a breaking of the harsh ultra-Orthodox line, and overflows with the ultra-Orthodox admiration and appreciation for Israel, cannot be ignored. Give up the lifestyle and the centrality of the Torah - but do try to be more active in society.

This is an excellent news. Less than 30 years ago, in the 1992 election, Torah Jewry's election broadcasts portrayed non-ultra-Orthodox Israel as its rotten culture, failed education, and its youths seduced. The slogan was: "You too are anxious", referring to anxiety about the fate of children in the country. Today, pioneering and honorable pioneers are seen in the party's broadcasts. The slogan may not be stated directly, but the meaning is: "I too am Israeli".

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And something else: it is fascinating to follow the angry activity and the frenzy of who he is supposedly a Knesset member, but in fact he is the one who has never stopped seeing himself, Yair Golan. Last weekend, General Golan tweeted on Twitter to call all the non-national, non-Zionist, diasporic, and small verbal and physical violent and fanatical gangs, and this is just part of a particularly angry tweet chaining in which Golan recommended "insurrection instead of surrender."

The former lieutenant commander, who explains that the one who really controls us is the "Fritz who lives in Washington", offers an uprising and marks all his political rivals as violent and dangerous causes that undermine the nation, and represents - in his own words - "evil, deceit and corruption"? Indeed, it is daunting to discover among us the pervasive processes that took place in Germany in the 1930s.

Source: israelhayom

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