A few years ago, when Yoaz Handel staffed the "The Hip and the Right Grades" slot in "Yediot Ahronoth" - a slot that changes every few years - a trend could be identified.
In a column written after the broadcast of a semi-anti-Semitic anthropological film about the mysterious tribe called "settlers", Handel wanted to help the frightened subjects who cried for help, and Handel of course also killed the patient on the way.
As for Zatot, Handel clarified the well-known: fringes are everywhere, but to generalize about half a million people who are extremists is folly.
So far so good.
But Handel, like Handel, continued: the majority there are fine, but "there are some crazy extremists among them", and he went on to sharpen: "there are exotic stories there", and "there are wiggles who hear voices from heaven", but the majority?
OK.
Did you understand?
"Furly wigs", "crazy", "exotic", "voices from heaven" - in a column against the inclusion of the Handel volume, a whole segment is derogatory names of a cannibal tribe from the Amazon.
The future could be identified: in the narrow world of the extreme centrist there are people outside the "boring center", and they are the greatest enemy to the fate of humanity and Zionism.
In Handel's world there are those who do everything he believes is good, and there are the bad - on both sides!
- that they are really, really bad.
danger.
And he despises them.
There is logic in this, but over time it became clear that the range of definitions of "bad" in Handel never stops expanding.
The end?
In a weak voice of humility, Yoaz Handel announced on Facebook that he is retiring for the time being from political life and will hold the upcoming election campaign from his home, when even there he is unable to hold back and blames the "fringes".
And how did it happen that the most stately, Zionist, and Israeli man, and the most combative and against Jobniks (on both sides!) and the most Jewish and the most man of the center-mid-consensus and the most against the extremists (on both sides of course!) was left out?
How is the commander who is most for the good and against the bad and against the fringes (on both sides!) and most for the unifier and against the divider and the fundamentalists (on both sides!), for the Spirit but against the winds of violence (on both sides!) that blow among our beautiful people - how did it happen that Yuez from the boat found himself When he looks at the back of a guy named Hadar Mokhtar?
According to Handel's world there is only one option for the mystery: the good has lost.
Only we, the winners, are left.
A handful of 99% of the Jewish public in Israel, right and left, the extremists who endanger the future of Zionism (on both sides!).
We remained the hallucinatory, the crazy, the hearers of the voices from the sky, while the only normal was gone.
And now please we come?
My little self offers Handel another option: from the precision of the definition "center" and "marginal" markings, it turns out that anyone who is not exactly in the center of Handel is an extremist, and as mentioned, there is nothing more dangerous in the infantile world of concepts that exists in an even more infantile world called "the Israeli media" than "extremists" ".
When Handel prefers avowedly anti-Zionist terrorist supporters like Walid Taha, but rejects Ben Gabir ("extremist!") - there is a problem here.
When he includes Ahmed Tibi - an ardent follower of Arafat, yes?
- and Smotrich ("Extreme and Jobnik!") in the same "extreme" slot, the problem is already almost mental, bordering on charlatan.
And no one, Mr. Handel, right and left, likes charlatans who decide for themselves who is good here and especially who is evil.
Such people, it turns out, are accepted on the head.
from both sides.
were we wrong
We will fix it!
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