"This bullet was ancient
,
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Jorge Luis Borges wrote in the short essay "In Memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy," written near the Dallas assassination.
The same bullet that hit Kennedy in the head, Borges says, also killed Lincoln, and before that there were other things.
He was the decapitator who dissected Queen Mary's head, the nails in the body of Jesus, the poison in Hannibal's iron ring and the poisoned cup from which Socrates swallowed.
"At the dawn of time," writes the wondrous Borges, "he was the stone that Cain threw at his brother Abel, and he will be many things which today we can not at all imagine, and its end may come only with the end of men and of their wondrous and fragile destiny."
Time passes, reality changes, and as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught us, "you can not enter the same river twice." Except for us, who have been rummaging through the same wound for 26 years on the twelfth day of Cheshvan. Only this year without filters.
The assassination of the late Prime Minister of Israel, the late Yitzhak Rabin, was the height of Israeli democracy. Quite a few democracies experienced political assassinations. But for us, a nation that has only recently returned to history, the assassination of Rabin was a tectonic event. We avoided it, or at least turned it into a silent civil war. And
Rabin's assassination became a founding myth of the left in its treatment of the right. The right-wing leaders of the Sanhedrin belonged to the Sanhedrin, to the Sanhedrin, Netanyahu the High Priest and Yigal Amir the executioner. Jesus, your guilt is constant and eternal until you change your faith.
Over the years the narrative has changed. Initially, the assassination was used to justify the bloody Oslo legacy and deny the right's legitimacy, but after the Barak government, the second intifada and overtime of the ZKA - the Oslo legacy was forgotten, only the denial of the right and the false The demonstrations against Oslo maintain a matter-of-fact and unexciting debate. The fact that at this year's ceremony the members of the Rabin family claimed that after 26 years the circle closes - betrays the narrative. The sons of darkness.
"Yigal Amir wanted to assassinate
the democratic idea. He told himself that the majority does not decide. He knows better. Had it not been for the miracle of the change government, his ideological descendants would have been ministers in the government today ... This was the election, this is the division, not right and left, but for and against democracy "(Yair Lapid in the Remembrance Day speech to Yitzhak Rabin in the Knesset).
Brotherly hatred has existed here not only since the 1930s but from the moment Jacob entered the tent with Leah. I'm not thrilled by Lapid's lies, but I'm worried about the direction. When you talk about Yigal Amir's "ideological descendants" you are implicitly claiming that they are potential killers. Dangerous people who need to be stopped. If the division is between Democrats and those who threaten it, then M.S.L. - they must be stopped.
Democracy cannot be protected by closing its mouths. It is impossible to roll one's eyes and shout "incitement" after a year in which the Church of Hate was held in Balfour, a religious ceremony of mass catharsis in which hatred for one person was celebrated in public. Hanging ropes, guillotines, slogans about Ceausescu, Louis XVI and even Hitler. A party whose election signs called for Netanyahu Erdogan.
If anything has sharpened for me this week in a refined way, it is the realization that the reconciliation government is not just an Orwellian semantics but an immediate danger to the freedom of us all and to democracy. For freedom of expression and freedom of choice. A government that seeks to strangle the opposition, a government that seeks to censor social networks, a government whose members and leaders have been persecuted and accused of killing Rabin only yesterday and are now pointing the finger of blame at a former conspirator. disgrace.
And after the speech come the deeds.
The law that Gideon Saar raises and prevents the person who has been indicted from serving as prime minister is an anti-democratic law, which in fact entrusts the fate of Israeli democracy to an official and his arbitrary decisions. According to a publication by Gidi Weitz in Haaretz, Spokesman Mandelblit supports the law because he "believes that the actions and behavior of the former prime minister justify the bill." At meetings at the Ministry of Justice, Mandelblit said that Netanyahu tried to use his position to block the legal proceedings against him, and if he succeeded, "it would be the end of Israeli democracy."
Stunning. A spokesman who changed his mind 180 degrees about a personal law against a man he himself filed an indictment (which is being disbanded in court), denying funding in his defense, claiming in a conversation according to Tomo that the state attorney "grabs him by the throat," hiding under a restraining order. Investigations against Netanyahu were launched in a phishing campaign without written approval, everything is possible in retrospect.
The prosecutor who filed the indictment (a legal document that did not pass an evidentiary and judicial examination) also signed an affidavit that supports the law against the person against whom he filed the indictment. Is there no conflict of interest here? This is Sodom Kafka.
After the law memorandum was published, Gideon Saar tweeted: "The law memorandum I distributed today sets an important value norm. Opposition to the proposal is personal. And the heresy of the Knesset's authority to enact this law is undemocratic."
I tweeted in response: I deny the authority of you and your zero friends to infringe on my right to elect a prime minister whom an official cannot dismiss by actually filing an indictment.
Assault prevents vengeance and is ready to take us all into a whirlpool of hatred.
His ego is exponentially larger compared to his meager personality and achievements.
So Mr. Saar, do not threaten us because we are not afraid nor will we give up.
You cannot destroy democracy.