Years ago, a politician named Pesach Grupper served in the Knesset.
He was a member of Gahal, a liberal-liberal bloc. You had never heard him insult a political opponent. He was a popular, unassuming, humble, disrespectful man. Shooting for occasional political situations.He did not insult or radiate rudeness.
hard to believe.
Once, after another tumultuous session of the Legislature, Gruper issued an appropriate nickname for the situation: "The Knesset should be laid down on the psychiatrist's couch," he blurted out.
And today we are convinced that the years that have passed have not blunted the validity of the Grupper recommendation.
If no psychiatrist is found, it is necessary to find another experienced professional who will smuggle some of the fairies.
The Knesset's deterioration to an even lower low was recently caused by MK Mai Golan, from the Likud faction. She called out to the chairman of the Knesset committee, MK Ginzburg:
There will be those who will wonder why I quoted a MK from the Likud, and omitted insults hurled at the right from the left. No and no. These words were accompanied by synonyms spoken in the Knesset, and there were many who resembled them.
There were days when the TV channel broadcast violent fights that were immortalized in East Asian legislatures.
"What a shame," we whispered.
This time, the Knesset is the reciprocal and says from Jerusalem to the distant legislators: "We also have a good reputation."
The phenomenon of rudeness, not on the part of all MKs, is perpetrated by those who are called "elected representatives of the nation." A parking space, such an event could end in bloodshed.
It seems that the new year of independence will also stand in the way of its predecessor: Israel is a threatened country.
Israeli citizens live under the constant threat of exploding rockets.
And here, as an incentive for all the daily nervous tension, the sovereign institution demonstrates a phenomenon of appealing to public order, a phenomenon that indicates the rule, a phenomenon that deserves to be erased at all, especially when it occurs in the Knesset.
There is no law that will close and constitute a kind of strainer on the mouths of MKs. The elected representatives of the people enjoy, and rightly so, an envelope of immunity that allows them to criticize without fear of being prosecuted.
Contrary to the views of some "pickles", Israel enjoys a generous degree of freedom of speech.
and better this way.
There are MKs who, according to their speeches, the degree of their loyalty to the state is in doubt. And it can be said: the defamation phenomenon is legitimate, albeit within a few restrictions. To the Knesset, they should consider: Is my candidate, apart from being loyal to a political idea, also someone we should not be ashamed of?
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