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Opinion | Because the chain is still going | Israel today

2022-07-21T14:42:19.854Z


In the "Camp of Change" they celebrated the initiative of a Netanyahu supporter to sell a pendant in his image, and clicked in front of the cult of personality • But those who live in a glass house, or perhaps in the Peres Center for Peace, should not throw stones


This week, the connoisseurs vibrated in a sacred aesthetic shock: Raz Farage, a supporter of Netanyahu with a business sense, created a pendant with a portrait of Netanyahu against the background of the Israeli flag.

The pendant is available for purchase on a website.

Those who want to buy it - have it for health, and those who do not - really do not have to.

And one can, of course, faint from condescension.

It's free.

Two wise students, Avigdor Lieberman and Michal Rosin, swiftly pulled out quotes from the Bible on statues and masks. Palestinian construction in Area C, as part of Bnei Gantz's plan to establish a Palestinian state on its own initiative.

No wonder many eyebrows were raised in disgust at the cult of personality.

After all, worship has its own rules, and must be carried out correctly.

It is inconceivable that a private person would take 100 shekels out of his private pocket and wear on his private neck a "special necklace for true Bibi lovers."

Where's the class?

Especially since for so many years we have seen how politicians should be worshiped, preferably at the expense of the public.

Here are some examples, so that the members of the Bibist sect can learn from the best in the field.

Jerusalem Teddy Stadium is named after Mayor Teddy Kollek after he was no longer mayor, but definitely alive.

This is nothing compared to Rishon Lezion, where the Heichal Hatarbut is named after Mayor Meir Nitzan while he is in office.

Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv and a Likud member, did not go as small as a pendant: the promenade in Tel Aviv was named after him after he retired.

In honor of the opening of the Supreme Court Hall, President Aharon Barak began the "legacy of commemorating the presidents of the Supreme Court for their generations," in the form of portraits.

The price - tens of thousands of shekels per piece.

Although the public paid for the pleasure but could not expect the result, as the paintings are displayed on the judges' floor, it is closed to visitors.

Try to make them a pendant, and we'll see who buys of his own free will.

It is clear why the state funds the Rabin Heritage Center in Tel Aviv.

It is less clear why the person who heads it is his daughter, Dalia Rabin.

And this is nothing compared to the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, which was built while Peres himself is serving as president.

His three children hold management positions at the center in his name.

It is neither personality cult nor nepotism.

This is a legacy!

The cult of personality - forgiveness, objective appreciation - of Peres is particularly impressive, as his work for peace failed, and his leadership was repeatedly rejected at the ballot box.

But as president he was an award-free award such as public support or the scrutiny of the media.

Thus, the budget of the President's House managed to double itself and even more - from NIS 24 million a year to NIS 56 million.

In those years, Prime Minister Netanyahu's dormitory budget was less than two million shekels a year, and Netanyahu and his family were accused of hedonism.

Netanyahu brought not only peace agreements but also victories at the ballot box that Peres could only dream of.

But you said a prize - you said a leader on an international scale.

Even Netflix made a movie about him.

On his 90th birthday, while serving as president, his wealthy friends from all over the world donated 11 million shekels to make it possible to rejoice properly.

The JNF raised half a million dollars to bring Bill Clinton to the lecture. Peres' peace left the Nobel Prize for him, Rabin and Arafat, and the victims of the Oslo Accords. And the Peres Center for Peace, of course, Ugh.

The cult of personality is justified only when it comes from the left and is directed towards the left.

During the Balfour protests, the demonstrators took the trouble to insult the Prime Minister Netanyahu and command him to "go," while at the same time neglecting an equally important task: self-glorification.

They waved "We are the hope" and "We are the silver tray" signs with graphic designers with a well-developed sense of taste.

The demonstrators admired themselves and the weekly demonstrations in Balfour, for example, scored Latrun in armored vehicles, while in reality they simply boarded jeeps in Jerusalem and their biggest difficulty was finding parking near Paris Square.

The demonstrations included meditation classes and artists' performances, and on July 14, the demonstration was branded as "Bibistylie Day" in the spirit of the French Revolution, rather than as a vocal gathering of citizens whose party lost the election.

Their honor was once harmed.

After blocking one road too many, the silver trays were spray-painted by a police handgun. Although the High Court was quick to ban the use of this despicable practice towards our best sons and daughters, the trauma inspired the sculptor Itai Zlait.

He cast an 8-ton bronze statue of a kneeling man waving the Israeli flag.

Not in front of the enemy but in front of a jet of water that the artist, for his own reasons, decided not to include in the work.

The statue is called "Hero of Israel", no less, and has been displayed in several places around the country, including Rabin Square.

At the end of the protest, a concluding exhibition of the heroism of the demonstrators was held in the square under the unpretentious title "Free People in Our Country".

The golden calf has never looked more modest.

Netanyahu was elected by a large public to head the largest political camp in Israel.

He is haunted by the judiciary, the media, and politicians even less popular than Persia.

His voters were labeled "babysitters," "dark forces," and "poison machines," and were then politely asked to relinquish their right to choose him as the right-wing leader.

Netanyahu does not like the aristocrats who insist on boycotting him and mocking his voters, while erecting gilded monuments to themselves.

The pendant is a private and personal answer that is all come on come on whoever asks you at all.

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Source: israelhayom

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