In 2014,
Sapir Sabah, a 12th grade student at ORT Greenberg School in Kiryat Tivon, wrote a letter to Education Minister Shai Firon about the teacher of Jewish thought, Adam Verta. "He explains that he is an extreme leftist, that for him our state is not the state of the Jews at all but of the Palestinians and that we (the Jews) should not be here. Clearly moral and that he is ashamed of our country's army. (...) When I expressed my opinion and told him I did not agree with his words he laughed and said to me: 'For you to kill all the Arabs - that's what you want'. Of course I did not mean that and I explained it to him, but He ignored and continued to humiliate me and hurt me every lesson in front of the students in the class.When I approached the management there were a number of conversations during which a man admitted that he laughed at my words and even apologized.
"The main thing in my eyes is not the ridicule that a person puts me in front of the class, but the fact that he is part of the education system and he uses his status to instill in students such wrong thoughts about our country and our army. (...) Adam told me 'You want all Arabs As for them they will die. 'Again I explained again that this is not my opinion at all but a man ignored. (....)
"I would have been happy for this matter to be dealt with by you because I have tried several times for the matter to be dealt with and to no avail."
The Minister of Education ignored, and Sabah turned to MK Michael Ben-Ari. Ben-Ari published the letter, and the media woke up. "Pluralism and freedom of expression We see verbal violence as a danger to democracy, we feel threatened."
"IDF commanders do not care in principle to kill innocent Palestinians, including children, and they do so, deliberately," Spain said in a 2005 interview, in which he also underestimated the threat of Palestinian terrorism and blamed Israel for it, much like his client. Passed a hearing of the ORT network, but was fired a few months later for reasons of reduction.
Influenced by the affair, Dikla Keidar wrote the series "Hour Zero" for the public broadcasting corporation, which is based on the confrontation between Sabah and Verta. Kedar is a graduate of the left-wing Thelma Yellin: "I was on my father's shoulders in a peace demonstration now against the Lebanon war," she told Haaretz in an interview on the occasion of the series' rise, but still tried to understand the right-wing Sabah. "What did she care so much about?" She wondered, "After all, she was already with one foot out of the education system. (....) What was there? It could not be that it was only political, it could not be that it was only right and left."
There are writers - say me - who would answer simply: there was a meeting between a normal, Zionist right-wing girl who loved her people and her homeland, and a narcissistic teacher from the delusional fringe of the anti-Zionist left.
It really is not only political, but also a show of courage and common sense of a student who was forced to hear toxic nonsense in class, tried to produce a respectful dialogue, encountered contempt and disregard on the part of the school, but stood her ground.
There is not much like it.
Teachers like Verta, who will not win an argument with an adult, and therefore derive a sense of power from trying to impose their political views on their students - there are in every school.
But an interpretation that sees Sabah as a heroine and a fighter for justice did not occur to Kedar.
There are people for whom right-wingers are a mystery.
A right-wing girl is a girl with a disorder.
And so in the daughter series the character of Sabah is not really right-wing.
She wants to impress a guy, and she's fat.
On Saturday evening,
Geula Even, the wife of the Minister of Justice and the highest paid in the corporation, summoned Verta and Sabah for a couple interview.
Verta still believes that the IDF commits war crimes, he himself did not serve in the army, nor does he want his sons to enlist. A mixture of cowardice and blindness, and of course support for murderous Arab nationalism.
In 2017, Sabah was interviewed by "Mako" and demonstrated common sense, a sense of humor, and zero willingness to wag his tail in front of shocked reporters.
"I hate leftists more than I hate Arabs," she announced.
"Arabs are for their people and their land. Leftists are Jews who hate their people, they are against their people, that's why I hate leftists."
Of course, Even found it appropriate to be appalled by the old interview, rather than by the compassion for the murderers of Jews displayed by Verta.
Do you hate leftists?
Astonished.
I hate anyone who tries to take the country away from me, Sabah replied calmly, but out of what seemed like a desire to interrupt Stone's fainting show she added: Maybe hatred is too big a word.
Verta was not asked about hatred.
His views were accepted as they are: the petals of a left-handed greenhouse flower are found.
The grandson of Netiva Ben Yehuda.
Look, even terrorists he does not hate.
Not just Verta,
the entire left camp does not know what hatred is.
Yair Lapid did not call the right-wing camp "shit", Yair Golan did not identify processes, Zehava Gal-On did not offer to treat the fascist animals.
Their content is full of love.
Even herself, shocked by hatred against an entire camp, apparently forgot her husband's words, but a few weeks ago: "We saved the honor of the national camp in Israel, which mostly walked with its eyes closed after the flutist from Balfour."
He was also kind and furry about the leftist Sabah: Haaretz published a cartoon of her, armed with a submachine gun, spraying everyone at ORT school, perhaps because Verta, in his love for her, accused her of wanting to kill all the Arabs.
Kedar put this sentence in the mouth of the teacher in the series as well, and cast a 30-year-old actress, in a particularly neglected show, to play the 17-year-old Sabah.
Distributive justice.
And perhaps it is worth mentioning that hatred or love in itself has no moral value.
Depends on who you love, and why, who you hate, and why.
I, for one, love Sapir Sabah.
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