How much self-aviation does it take to create a statue in your image?
• Activists may tend to rhetoric of group empowerment, but this is a shameless social stratum • Opinion
The bronze statue of the hero of Israel
Photography:
Itai Zlait
A chapter in the story of a demonstration and darkness is over: the bronze statue of the kneeling demonstrator by protest artist Itai Zlait was expelled from Jerusalem and finally found his natural home in Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel's democracy.
Huldai even tweeted with characteristic arrogance that "the protester will continue to demonstrate. Eventually there will also be light."
A week that ended with vaccines and a peace agreement, really lacks some of that good light.
We will skip for a moment over taking over the public space and over the provocative protest provocation of placing a bronze statue in Paris Square, sorry - the Square of Democracy.
The fundamental question is different: is there a world in our world in a higher ascent than creating a statue in your symbolic image, and even calling it "Israel's hero"?
I am familiar with the group empowerment rhetoric of idealistic activists ("You and I will change the world"), but this is already a strain of pathological narcissism of a social stratum that doesn't even look back to see if anyone even turns a thrash as it mingles down history.
The protester will continue to demonstrate.
Finally there will also be light.
Happy holiday.
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- Ron Huldai (@Ron_Huldai) December 10, 2020
Honestly, it does not matter if the statue was cleared for you rightly or wrongly.
Come on, do you put up a bronze statue of yourself in the town square and call Bibi "Caesar"?
You make sculptures of yourself, produce albums of fame for yourself after every demonstration, shoot yourself for pathos-dripping slow-motion videos, tweet yourself with exponential obsession, stop the country when the police turn you away, not to mention disproportionate self-superlatives like "We are the hope" and " We will bring the dawn ", and of course" we are democrats ".
Yes, only you.
What kind of ego-trip embolism does it take to tie such crowns to yourself for half a year?
If this is your self-perception even before you have managed to realize a slim one percent of your goals, what will happen if one day Bibi really goes?
Will you force us to study "Chapters of Amir Hashakel" for adulthood?
Will our children be required to memorize Yossi Tsabari's rhymes in sixth grade?
Will youth movements skip the roaring lion and now command the "Hero of Israel" statue?
The beacon lighting ceremony will be said goodbye to Mount Herzl and will be permanently moved to Paris Square, sorry - Democracy Square?
To Tommy, I thought that the good and beautiful Israel that was stolen from you and spoiled for you and destroyed for you, was an Israel of humility and simplicity, a meal of olives and fruit of Tomer and crumpled aluminum cups, and especially "no one knew when they set out."
And do not dare to ask "what is the connection".
Just two months ago and a little bit, you compared yourself to the generation of 1958 and even presented yourself with a new house for "Bab-al-Wad" - a sign and souvenir for the convoys of jeeps and flags you took out to Jerusalem, in the air conditioner, with soy and Assaf Amdursky in stereo.
Take a look at yourself in the mirror for a moment, or rather in one of the thousands of selfies you took of yourself or in one of the tens of thousands of hover shots or in one of the hundreds of broadcast minutes allotted to you (and if the channel did not send a broadcast mobile to the block you blocked - you were furious and stomped on feet). .
Take a look at yourself, and the bronze statue you made in your image, and the heroic commemoration you made for yourself, and the songs you wrote about yourself, and the pictures you framed of yourself, and the countless columns of opinion you praised yourself, and the many speeches you flattered.
What do you see there?
I'll tell you.
You see people there next to whom even Benjamin Netanyahu, "the emperor from Caesarea," looks like Ben-Gurion in a hut with thin wooden walls.
Congratulations, your madness of magnification has brought even the great megalomania of Israeli politics into proportion.