"Hello residents, for your information, following a road accident on Road 60 between Adam and Sha'ar Binyamin, the road was blocked for traffic in both directions. There may be disruptions in public transportation."
This message, and hundreds of it, I and tens of thousands of residents of Benjamin north of Jerusalem receive on a daily basis.
You will not hear about the daily traffic jams between Adam and Hizma in the reports of Galgalatz or the B network here. After all, they happen beyond the mountains of darkness, beyond the Green Line. This one called Route 60.
Meet to meet, Palestinians and Israelis refuse to be stuck.
To refuse.
The new Minister of Transportation, Merav Michaeli, decided that "for too many years the State of Israel was the State of Judea and Samaria, and the time has come for it to return to being the State of the Negev and the Galilee."
The transportation problems of the residents of North Jerusalem are only a symptom of the real problem: what is serious is that this outrageous statement is made under a government that has declared that it will maintain the status quo on the "painful" issues;
A government that understands that because of its complexity, it will not be possible to make significant decisions here (right) or here (left).
But like everything in this government, statements aside - and reality aside.
Because meanwhile, the government compass is stuck on the left.
Merav Michaeli dares to declare, get a people and a microphone, that she is not the transportation minister of 400,000 Israeli residents and taxpayers, because she knows that nothing bad will happen to her. She knows that in the current political constellation, 180 degrees to the left does not endanger her kosher future. Like her, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, who went to visit Abu Mazen, who pays monthly salaries to terrorists. Or the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Ram Ben Barak, who did not understand until the publication in all the media what the problem was with employing someone who was photographed with supporters of terrorists for her enjoyment. Or Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who returned from Washington with a promise
And so, we find ourselves all the way back to a distant past we wanted to forget, where our life in settlement depended on restraint;
Where they claimed that the money was hidden between Itamar and Yitzhar;
Where we, the settlers, were accused of stealing money destined for the periphery.
We returned to the narrative of the Oslo years, as the base of government ministers is not between Yitzhar and Itamar, but in places where it is permissible and desirable to say delusional things such as: "I am glad that there are ultra-Orthodox, but we need to limit their political influence."
Anyone else have a deja vu from Yair Lapid's speeches?
This is the essence of this government's problem: under the guise of "something new is beginning", it de facto nullifies the great achievements of the past years and brings us back to the left narrative.
To say goodbye to the normalcy to which we have become accustomed, and thanks to which we have focused on the advancement of the state and not on the dreams of the aspiration of two states for two peoples.
You are very pleasant to us.
Hope you come back soon, before it's too late.
