A simple textual analysis of the excited posts on the networks and the reports that accompany the first Israeli demonstrations against Netanyahu brings up the conclusion that can not be avoided: in the end, these are different variations of Dudu Topaz's speech. You are the Shin-Gimels and we are the sons of light, how dare you beat us at the polls with the help of this annoying democracy. 

This message emerges from the signs "I will not be silent because my country has changed its face" which are basically the reason for the demonstrations: "Their country" has changed its face because in a democracy for some reason every vote is worth the same. And this message is the subtext that emerges from the really painful and painful posts of good Israelis about the members of the "kibbutzim, moshavim and cities that have fallen so that you can curse everyone who comes to you"; From the call letter that condescends on the one hand and lowers the rival political group on the other: "Let us rebuild our broken country ... true, clean, valued leaders. Leaders like those who signed the same Declaration of Independence, those who bled for democracy"; Or from the viral post "It was not easy to establish a state here. Good Jews who came here mainly from Eastern Europe, ate shit here ... died like flies from malaria ... fought the locals (for the Nakba they did to the Palestinians in another chapter), fought the Turks, fought the British, Cyclone stones ... ". And all in the melody "because we came to the land to build and be built" - and you were just pushed, "because we have this land for us". How did Jonathan Geffen write about the demonstrators from the first Israel? "Waving the Israeli flag, which for the first time may not be ashamed of those waving it."

Yes, the anti-Eastern sentiment is still the silent soundtrack that is in this protest and excites the first Israel. This became apparent in the election, when an official party, not some two brats, the clear first Israeli party, "Blue and White", published huge posters comparing Netanyahu to Erdogan. Beyond incitement, the comparison to Erdogan - and not to Trump for example - played on the sentiment of fear of the East. It is not for nothing that two Moroccan ministers, Amir Ohana and Rabbi Rafi Peretz, have been placed alongside Netanyahu in the same announcement, which is a milestone in the history of official political incitement in Israel.

And the fact that there are Mizrahis participating in this demonstration of the first Israel does not make everything more moral (I do not want to say the opposite). In 1981, too, there were Mizrahis in the square who applauded Dudu Topaz's racist remarks, and in '99, there were Mizrahis in the square when the anti-Mizrahi element that accompanied the first Israel broke out in the horrible shouts of the crowd, "Just not Shas."

A direct line of the first ethos of Israel connects the speech of the Chachachim in 1981 with the frightening chants "Just not Shas" in 1999 and the failure to denounce the call "Moroccan garbage" in 2020. The motto of the Chech speech Hachachim is still a founding part of the soundtrack of the first ethos of Israel. 

Luckily for Menachem Begin, the sharpest and greatest critic of the first Israel's condescension to "our Eastern testimony," as he defines it, is no longer with us In order to reveal to everyone the subtext of the 2020 protest and to reply to them as then: "The whole nation must know this. This is one sentence in all: the Chachachim are all in Wolf Fortress. We are happy that they are in Ze'ev Fortress. "

Dr. Avishai Ben-Haim is a news commentator