Contrary to many people's beliefs, good children's books are not a honeycomb.
Good children's books have a sting, and in the book "The Terrible War on Butter" the sting is particularly sharp.
The book, written by Dr. Suss at the height of the Cold War, describes an escalating struggle between two tribes with a thick wall of hostility separating them. The idiotic explanation for the growing alienation lies in something deeper. When there is no ideology, butter is just an excuse.
When considering the new decision of the Minister of Finance to abolish the tariffs imposed on imports of foreign-made butter, three weeks after abolishing the control over the fixed price of butter made in Israel, it is hard not to think about Dr. Suss. Until last month, Israeli butter was marketed at a fixed and low price. The price differences between it and its competitors overseas gave a clear priority to the Israeli dairy economy and provided the local consumer with butter at a price equal to each person. And will lead to rising prices.
The decision of Lieberman and the Minister of Agriculture appointed by his party to harm the weaker sections, while giving priority to the profit line of importers, is not really surprising.
The silence of the Labor Party members, who sit next to them around the cabinet table, is a little more complicated to explain.
It is difficult to understand how those who engraved on their banner the cultivation of the local labor market and insisted on preserving the rights of the workers, the aid they provided to harm the livelihood of Israeli farmers.
It is difficult to reconcile the behavior of those who turned the demonstrations from a decade ago on Rothschild Boulevard into a crown in their crown of value, with their partnership during the actual stumbling block of the ongoing effort to reduce the cost of living.
The political inaction and media silence imposed on them by the workers stand in stark contrast to the clear ideological foundations of their party.
Their unwillingness to stand by the local producers and cultivate with their help the "milk, gravel, cakes, jam, cheese made in the country" points in a new direction: the fight against poverty and privatization out - pig capitalism does not exist.
The white flag waved by the work on socio-economic issues is further evidence of the continuing disappearance of the ideological debate from our lives.
The relinquishment of ideological principles equates to the criticism that its representatives have directed at previous governments of qualities reminiscent of the "terrible war on butter."
In retrospect, the only debate between it and the objects of its past critique is whether capital-government ties should be smeared above or below the slice.
When the differences in the economic sphere between the parties are difficult to trace, and when the debate between the parties has long been devoid of any substantive basis, it is an expression of our growing deterioration into a political discourse directly devoid of the pages of a children's book.
In the current political sun, we all seem to have butter burdens on our heads.
Were we wrong?
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