Opinion | This is how statehood became the queen of empty words Israel today

A politician's word, to put it mildly, is not the most stable stock.

This is a very basic insight that wins consensus: where there is politics there are politicians, and there are also words that will become meaningless.

Here in Israel, too, the situation was similar until recently.

Our chosen ones lied at times, were precise at times, zigzagged more than once, and paid the price or reaped the rewards.

But in recent months, since the formation of the strange creature now called the government, something very basic has changed.

The words were emptied of content, becoming a weightless object floating without gravity in the air.

A left-wing delegation going to visit Abu Mazen?

On the right they say "Well, then visit".

Does the government reach an agreement regarding the Eviatar outpost?

It is not a problem for a minister in that government to explain that the agreement will not be fulfilled.

In the morning, they pledge to fiercely defend the LGBT people, and in the evening, one of the greatest homophobes who served in the Knesset is appointed chairman of the committee, and he receives congratulations from a LGBT MK.

One moment the interior minister is explaining how two states for two peoples is a terrible idea, and a minute after the foreign minister will say a lot about how wonderful it is.

In the universe of empty words and statements built by the coalition there is no truth and no lie, there is no right or wrong, and everything is equally important and unimportant.

Like at the mad hatter's tea party from "Alice in Wonderland," everyone is sitting around the cabinet table mumbling obscure sentences at the citizens.

And the policy?

Who knows, the main thing is that this is "redemption" as MK Silman called the government, or a "miracle" as Lapid declared.

The best example of the faint to non-existent connection between the words of the coalition members and reality, is statehood.

They swear by her name, scold her name and try to educate on her name.

Statehood is the master key to empty words.

What does it mean?

It is doubtful that anyone knows, it is not impossible that the father of statehood, David Ben-Gurion, if he had risen from his grave, would have scratched his head and tried to decipher its meaning.

The dim stateliness is the extraction of the spirit of this government of words, it is the ceremonies behind which there is nothing, the podium with the lamp symbol that exempts the speaker above it from saying something real or consistent.

In the abstract world of statehood, those who oppose the existence of the Jewish state and cherish the murderers of its citizens can also be introduced into the government, as well as speeches about sane people who come from the right places.

Both to support the judging of our officers in The Hague and also to condemn as "non-state" those who criticize the IDF after a fighter is killed on the border.

The word "statehood" has become the magic word by which one can on the one hand train any step that has hitherto been perceived as assigned out of disgust ("it is state!"), And on the other hand suppress any word of criticism, including those said emotionally or God forbid, God forbid, really, really God forbid, aloud Too loud ("It's not stately!").

The "state" stripped statehood of any value, just as they did to the words "ideology" or "I promise."

These are just words, but they are our words, and if you say other words - it will not be stately on your part.