Who are the forces of darkness? | Israel today

Had Zeev Jabotinsky, one of the symbols of statehood in Israeli politics, been asked what made the next prime minister, Yair Lapid, call his political opponents by the shocking name "Dark Forces," he would probably have used the same words he used in 1940: "Every man knows that in propaganda. The appeal to the emotion of love is slow and heavy compared to igniting the instinct of the insult. "While sending a hand," if it is known to all and can be attacked easily and out of a sense of security. "

The comparison of course is inaccurate.

Jabotinsky speaks of the role of anti-Semitism as an incentive to justify Nazi ideology.

Unlike a thousand thousand differences of course, the case of Yesh Atid and Yair Lapid is more complex because their mission is more complex: the Nazis marketed a clear ideology - fascism - to a country experiencing economic crisis, galloping inflation, the bereavement of World War I and the political humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles.

There is a future, however, is required to market a vague ideology to the citizens of a country that has been placed for years, regularly, in a high place in the global happiness index.

Under these difficult conditions, Lapid and his camp are required to focus on the insult that Jabotinsky is talking about.

Hence the need for a distinct snake head, Bibi, who operates his "poison machine" brethren - the "Bibists".

Lapid and his ideological partners, in the media and in the legal system, have succeeded in producing this snake's head in the Israeli consciousness with great talent.

A huge public in Israel is convinced, following years of criminal leaks from interrogation rooms (where the electricity was cut off at the "right" moments), that Benjamin, Sarah and Yair Netanyahu are the root of all evil on earth and the source of all their troubles.

Every Jew, no matter what his political views, must feel uncomfortable at the expression of "dark forces" and the "poison machine" and at the sight of the instinctive and automatic hatred of Netanyahu and his vast public of supporters.

When such expressions of incitement come from the leaders of the country and not from the last of the talkbackers, we should also ask ourselves another question - what is the great defeat, such as the First World War, that the leaders are trying to justify using this terminology of hatred?

What is the source of the anger they are trying to direct towards the head of the snake that we have been trained to hate?

The sad answer is the ideological defeat of the left, which for generations carried the banner of the two-state solution.

The Gaza Strip - the only full Palestinian sovereignty in the world - has been a constant and bloody reminder since 2005 of the impossibility of this solution.

Deep down, Netanyahu's opponents know he is not the problem.

The conception of the left collapsed with a great noise in the second intifada, and any other charismatic leader who comes from the right will easily pick up the pieces and form a coalition from them.

This is the reason why when one of them appeared, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, they hurried to attach an embarrassing affair to him, of the kind that almost every general has, and hint to him that if he dares to step into Netanyahu's shoes, the bitter fate of the "dark forces" awaits him.

I do not oppose this method as a right-wing man.

I oppose her as a Jew.

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