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Opinion Who prefers to forget and repress the lessons of disengagement? | Israel today

2022-08-05T05:00:51.092Z


The curfew imposed this week in the Gaza Strip is a result of that escape, but there are those who for 17 years prefer not to do the math • There is a political price for the courage to confront the ultra-Orthodox, but we do not have the privilege of submitting to blackmail


Recently, I was invited to a home screening of a documentary film, which did not win and it is doubtful if it will reach the public screens.

He deals with a subject that is almost completely excluded from the discourse, even though it is one of the most serious acts in the history of the country, a national trauma and tragedy.

These are, of course, the deportation and displacement of the settlements of the Gaza Strip, which took place this week 17 years ago.     

The film "Broken Heart and Wounded Tongue", by director and producer Mordi Kershner, was released about four months ago, but apart from a few reports in prominent right-wing newspapers, no one has heard of it.

The public channel not only did not finance, but also did not see fit to broadcast it, despite appeals to its sponsors.

It is understood that the commercial channels do not think of projecting this cloud of peace.

Because the bond of oblivion and repression continues in full force.

This is a connection that began with the campaign of attrition of the crime itself, called in false language "disengagement" and has continued since then to this day, even though in the years that have passed no one believes that we did indeed disengage from Gaza or that the goals set by Ariel Sharon and his partners were indeed fulfilled.

It is clear to everyone that the situation in the south has gotten much worse, just look at the curfew that was imposed this week on all settlements surrounding Gaza - a direct result of that escape and displacement.

And here again this week, as in the past 17 years, no one is demanding the establishment of a commission of inquiry, to come to terms with those responsible, not to mention drawing conclusions.

No one beats a sin or simply asks for forgiveness, from the displaced, from all of us.

The heroes of the film are a row of deportees from Gush Katif.

They are all sweet, idealistic, painfully innocent people.

And despite what the Israeli society and those who were at the head of it did to them, today they have no feelings of anger and revenge, some even ask themselves where they are and where they went wrong.

Evacuation of Gush Katif (archive photo - those photographed have no relation to the news).

Even this week, as in the past 17 years, no one demands the establishment of an investigative committee, to come to terms with those responsible, not to mention drawing conclusions. Photo: Photo: the late Miri Tzachi

A crime of stupidity

Several interviewees from Kibbutz Zikim - those who in their stupidity and ignorance pushed the act of insanity to build a terrorist state on the doorstep of their home - do not express remorse or even admit to a mistake, even though the defamed deportees functioned as the state's police force and their own personally. The only ones who express remorse are two of the female officers who were stationed in the circle at the time The first of the plots. To this day, the act does not let them down, they testify that their conscience is full and heavy. As those who enlisted in the army with a sense of mission - as teaching officers, they were led to commit a crime of folly. One even declares that at the time she thought it was right to obey the order, but today she thinks otherwise .

With the exception of large parts of the media, academia and cultural circles, everyone who claims to be the prime minister today is complicit in denial and deliberate repression.

From Meir Lapid, through Benny Gantz to Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu not only took an active part in voting in favor of the serious act, he is also training the spawn today.

He allows one of the main partners in crime, Gilad Sharon, to compete in the Likud primaries, as if nothing had happened;

After Oren Magenzi, Sharon's assistant at the time, who took an active part in the plot, Netanyahu shortened the training period so that he could run on the Likud list.

And in general, since then, Netanyahu has done nothing to correct the terrible results of his votes.   

The film, which was financed by the Gush Katif Heritage Center, should be seen, if only so as not to forget.

And yet there is one consolation these days: it seems that the Israelis assimilated the stupidity of the evil side of "disengagement", and especially understood that nothing similar should be repeated.

Thus, even though they deny and repress, the lesson is clear.

And if most Israelis understand that we must not succumb to illusions of peace again, neither in the form of the fragmented dreams of Oslo nor in the form of the escape of Gush Katif, the sacrifice was not in vain. 

Gilad Sharon

Netanyahu not only took an active part in voting in favor of the serious act, he is also training the spawn today.

He allows one of the main partners in crime, Gilad Sharon, to compete in the Likud primaries.

, photo: Gideon Markovich

The race after the ultra-Orthodox

A little more than a year after the separation of the ultra-Orthodox businessmen from the state, the ultra-orthodox parties are back to being the hot commodity in the market.

The puzzling alliance between New Hope and Blue and White was built on the assumption that Gantz and Saar would be able to form a coalition without the Likud, based on the ultra-Orthodox.

According to the script, Netanyahu and Goshu will not reach 61 and then they will actually convince Deri and Gafni to crown Gantz as Prime Minister, without Netanyahu's Likud.

How this move will work is not really clear, what is clear is that the intensive courting of rebbes and rabbis has been renewed, precisely by those who claim to be an alternative to Netanyahu and his ways, also in front of the ultra-Orthodox.

Immediately after the move by Gantz and Saar, it became known that Yair Lapid was also making his own effort to clean up the ultra-Orthodox courts.

The embarrassing dialogue that was revealed between him and the ultra-orthodox journalist Menachem Toker, taught how much Lapid also pursues the black suits.

Thus, about a year after the pretense of introducing clean norms of conduct in the country, where the left-wing elements in the "government of change" are racing after the ultra-Orthodox, a serious and dangerous race.

It is not surprising that those who tried to change the equation with the ultra-Orthodox are precisely the right-wing ministers in the current government, especially Matan Kahana and Yoaz Handel, who also paid a price for daring to damage the control of ultra-Orthodox businessmen in the telephone market.

And in general, the one who might devour the cards will be the Zionist spirit of Shaked and Handel - who, if she only passes the blocking percentage, will herself become the tongue of the scales.

But in the meantime it is important to give ourselves an account of the price that even the leaders of Netanyahu's holy boycotters are willing to pay today, in the name of integrity and saving democracy.  

Netanyahu, Deri and Gafni, photo: Dodi and Ekanin

This price is one of the most serious curses of Israeli society.

It has its roots in the days when the Israeli left was ready to lower the sky for the ultra-Orthodox, in order to win the debate about the future of Yosh. Shulamit Aloni said at the time that for the sake of "peace" she was even ready to go with Streimel. The Likud, for its part, did not remain obliging and thus they entered into a fatal battle.

This is a race that endangers the very existence of Israeli society.

He caused the construction of a social structure in the Holy Land, the like of which had never existed in the Jewish people, not even in the inverted pyramid of the Jewish towns before the Holocaust.

This is a planet where a public that is growing every day - also growing in proportion to its share in the total population - enjoys rights without duties.

And all through the resources of the rest of the public.

In the vast majority he does not risk his life and does not contribute to society as a whole, large parts of him do not work and do not pay taxes.

Therefore, the continued growth of this sector, at current norms, is a ticking time bomb.

In the not too distant future, the state will not have the resources to continue like this, and when the tax payers and conscripts become a minority, there is no doubt that they will refuse to continue being the donkey of the Habarach: a heavy danger will be imposed on the very existence of the state.

Therefore, anyone who shamelessly plans to gain control of the country on the basis of continuing to comply with all the invalid demands of the ultra-orthodox businessmen, who perpetuate the system, will be responsible for the impending disaster.

For the information of all voters. 

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Source: israelhayom

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