The head of the Bar Association, Avi Himi, the attorney general, Gali Beharve-Miara, and the members of the "Robes Protest" - a rain of jurists has fallen on our heads and warns us from morning to night about the end of democracy. I don't like the fact that the incoming government, like the outgoing one, leans on the edges. But the cry of the jurists leaves me completely indifferent, thanks to an experience I had as a young musician: about twenty years ago I had the opportunity to go to the studio of a major Israeli rock star. What is big? Huge! One whose performances His had filled stadiums for years, and rightfully so. In his kindness and compassion, I played him the song I was about to release on the radio at the time. This is roughly how the conversation went:
"So what are you saying?"
"Come on bro - amazing drum sound, who played?"
"Tal Amiran".
"I don't know. Well done!"
"But what do you say about the song?"
"I don't know. So heavy. A lot of text. It's not a hit, if that's the question..."
I left there a little shaken, but I put the song on the radio anyway.
For three weeks the song really didn't enter the Galgalat playlist.
The music editors probably listened to it in the same way that the experienced musician listened to it, but in the Voice of Israel they played it from time to time, and every such playback sent a lot of soldiers to call the IDF radio stations and ask to hear the song about the guy who falls in love with an actress. That's how "Rena" became one of my biggest hits. .
Just as leading musicians and music editors do not always know how to listen to songs the way the common audience listens to them, leading lawyers also do not understand the concept of "democracy" as the common man understands it, and in both cases the common man is right, because he is the one who really needs the songs to describe his life And he is the one who really needs democracy to protect him.
The senior jurists do not understand that in the eyes of the majority of its citizens, Israel has long been no longer a democracy but an anarchy, no longer able to maintain the most basic human rights.
Take for example the right to property: what right to property does an Israeli farmer or contractor have who finds their tractor or digger burned in the morning, and has to suffer damages of hundreds of thousands of shekels?
What property right do the residents of the south or Emek Hefer have, for example, who are just used to not finding their car in the morning?
And we haven't even talked about the basic human right to life, a right that everyone who is forced to drive on the roads of the South bets on on a daily basis, and about innocent citizens like Mor Tweizer and Yuri Volkov, whose memory is blessed, who are murdered in the morning news only because Israel is a democracy only in the eyes of its judges, those who listen to the sound of The drums instead of the sad song we all live in - a ballad about the loss of governance.
The learned Israeli jurists forgot that the essence of democracy, like the essence of the song, is not the rising paragraph or the sound of the drums,
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