"Orich and I know how to fight."
With these words, Knesset member Galit Distel summed up the incident in which the Likud spokesperson shut her out on the balcony, at the end of a professional debate related to the party's campaign.
Many sentences encouraging violence have been said over the years by many elected officials.
We haven't had such a trial yet.
Yonatan Urich is one of the senior advisors of the chairman of the opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu. Together with his friend Topaz Luke, he has gained a lot of status and power. And status and power give you the feeling that everything is allowed. Only those who feel that they are allowed dare to close a public committee on the balcony and scream at it "Stay there ".
From the moment the words were published, he knew he would pay no price for his behavior.
After all, this is exactly what happened when Topaz Luke posed as a film student and documented protesters in Jerusalem, while he was supposed to be in solitary confinement.
The advisors and their loyalty are much more important than the guidelines and restrictions that all the people of Israel are committed to.
They are also much more important than a Knesset member who owes her place in the Knesset to Netanyahu's armor, and who would never dare to criticize him or his advisors.
And Distal, who usually does not excel at restraint and excessive delicacy, immediately understood the balance of power.
The woman who wrote about Prime Minister Yair Lapid as "a terrible fool and hollow, a human fortune cookie", remained speechless in front of the adviser whose position is stronger than her position, even though she is an elected official. "I see him as a little brother and value his opinion", this is how she described the system Their relationship. The next step would probably be to take him to gymboree and hope he doesn't get mad and lock her in the ball pool.
The bowing of the heads of the Likud people before Netanyahu is not pleasant to watch, but the bowing before everyone who surrounds him is frightening and dangerous.
What do they know that makes them feel immune and protected?
How much power do these people have, who are able to humiliate a public representative and make them not only accept it, but also justify their side?
Campaigns, especially political ones, are instinctive and emotional.
People are offended, hurt, hurt, spirits can easily become inflamed.
I have been present in situations where screams were heard, unkind words were said, rooms were left in anger.
But I have never encountered a young employee who dares to hurt and disrespect a public representative in such a way, and she, for her part, makes it not only a worthy event, but one that indicates affection between the offending party and the victim.
Because what is actually "knowing how to fight"?
Who doesn't know how to fight - who gets hurt when they humiliate him?
Who demands that the offending party pay a price for his actions?
Perhaps we are talking about leftists - after all, unlike us, they are popular and warm, many quietly and politely.
Or maybe it is the first Israel that is restrained and hypocritical, unable to express emotions in front of the second Israel that has everything out there, that is (as every contestant on a reality show says) "real, without regret".
Distal was not only trampled, but also sent to the front to explain how wonderful it is to be trampled.
Let's not be surprised if the next step is to let her manage the Likud's balconies campaign.
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