Opinion Lost: What is really behind the opposition to legal reform | Israel today

In May 2005 I arrived in Rome for the first time in my life, and I fell in love.

It was three months before the disengagement.

My eldest son was 3 and a half years old.

At that time there was almost a fratricidal war in Israel.

The week I traveled, Muki, the singer, was interviewed and announced that it was necessary to "enter the settlers, break their bones, load them in trucks, throw them in some corner and shut their mouths."

The "tyranny of the majority" argument was not pulled at the time, for some reason.

vice versa.

In front of our eyes, a dance of devils took place under the artistic management of the choreographers from the Supreme Court, who mobilized for the task with full steam.

In order to trample on the right to protest of a persecuted minority, special courts were established for the benefit of secessionists, collective trials were held, the right to protest was violated, hundreds of minors were arrested.

And as I stood there, at the foot of the Titus Gate, watching the victory image of the Roman legionnaires, waving the holy Jewish symbol - the temple lamp - while I stood there, between the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD and the destruction of the Temple in 2005 AD, the tears began to flow.

from themselves.

The ancient Jewish people, an elusive mixture of matter and spirit, is embodied in the menorah carved in the Roman gate.

The victory of the Roman Empire over the rebellious people of Judah in 70 AD is symbolized by the relief of the temple lamp.

The Romans did not just carve the lamp symbol on the Titus Gate.

Already 2,000 years ago they understood.

There is no Jewish nation without Jewish religion.

2,000 years passed, and the same menorah was chosen to serve as the symbol of the Jewish state, a sign of the renewed covenant between the people and their ancient homeland.

At that moment I decided to try to keep kosher and Shabbat.

Not for God, for survival.

There, at the foot of the Titus Gate, between the destruction of the house in 70 AD and the destruction of 2005, the tears began to flow

Let's go back to 2005.

Then something else happened to me.

From a reluctant supporter of secession I became an opponent.

Not because of the evacuation of the area, which can be rationally discussed if it is useful or not, but because of the deportation.

The way the state treated my brother.

Because of the oppression and trampling.

The great injustice.

the lie

I know it's common to blame the Sikriks, the Zealots, for the civil war.

in the burning of the warehouses.

But the civil war began long before the rebellion.

The corrupt Sadducean priestly aristocracy is influenced and surrenders to Rome against the Pharisees.

The elite against the people.

And I felt that I had to be with the people.

In a long run, the people also defeated Rome.

One of our guys became their god.

You see him there in every corner.

Last weekend I went to Rome again. And I went to the Roman Forum again. On the way to the Gate of Titus I photographed graffiti on a huge directional sign in the direction of the ticket office for the Colosseum: "Free Palestine, Boycott Israel". The audacity of the invented people is truly fantastic, awe-inspiring. They lie as much as they breathe .

The Palestinians deny the existence of the temple and call it the insulting name "the imaginary temple", and here, a hundred meters from me, is physical proof of its existence.

to our taboo.

For the story of the metaphysical connection with our homeland.

The huge Colosseum was built from the looted money of Judah.

Tens of thousands of Jewish slaves brought as booty built it.

And they were still the fuctioners.

Others were thrown as food to predators or participated in gladiator fights.

I will tell you a secret.

What is really keeping the tribal left, the secular elite, from sleep is not the passage of empowerment, the independence of the ombudsman or the Israeli economy. Behind the slogans about the threat of fratricidal war, and the targeted elimination of prime ministers, a sad truth is hidden.

It was not for nothing that they opposed the Nationality Law, and it was not for nothing that people emerged from their beds who wave PLO flags in demonstrations and call for putting up fir trees on Israel's holidays. Their fear is not Rotman's reform, but Rotman's dome.

If they were really interested in democracy and human rights, you would expect to see them protest against the subpoena of an old woman with cancer just to hunt down one person.

This is not a constitutional or democratic crisis.

It is a crisis of nationalism.

In 1933, David Ben-Gurion published his important article "From Class to People", in which the old man made it clear that he was abandoning the class war of the socialist labor movement, the "Workers of the World United", in favor of the Jewish national identity.

Jewish first.

and now what?

Do his descendants want to return from a nation to a class?

The Israeli left and its leaders aspired to create in the new-old land a new Jew, without religion but very national.

They wanted to erase the short period between the Bible and the Palmach, or throw it into the dustbin of history.

The elites did not learn the lesson of the Minister of History, and undermined the balance between Jewishness and democracy.

The Jewish people is not a people like all other peoples, but a nation that maintains within itself a tension between the actual physical and the spiritual metaphysics.

"The Torah is the legal foundation of Jewish national freedom," said John Locke, the father of classical liberal philosophy.

Now don't be alarmed by me, when I talk about both nationality and religion.

I do not mean the state of Halacha and Shulchan Aruch as a constitution, but rather a miracle, a connection with the mother spaceship.

To the Jewish symbols, to the "status quo".

From 1977 the trend is clear.

The national idea among the elites was undermined and passed by leaps and bounds to an egalitarian civic ethos.

So-called equality of course, they still eat the cream in all this equality.

And it sits on some cracks.

Israel first and second, that is: Ashkenazim-Mizrahim, periphery-center.

The great thinker of the turnaround is of course Prof. Aharon Barak.

His use of the value change theorem was phenomenal.

The late Amos Oz once said that he wanted the country to be less Jewish.

Another time he told about an incident that happened to him at the Titus Gate.

He stood next to a booth that sold information leaflets to tourists and began to cry.

His grandson asked him about the tears, and the writer replied that among all the languages ​​he saw there, there was also Hebrew, but not Latin.

It was Oz's victory over the Romans.

As usual, he went half way.

If he had continued, he would also have understood that this was a victory for Hebrew over Israeliness as well.

This is the revenge of the language of God, as Gershom Shalom prophesied already in 1926 when he wrote about the revenge of the Hebrew that will not be silent on the attempts to corrupt it, to his friend Franz Rosenzweig.

"God will not remain silent in the language in which he has been sworn a thousand times to return to our lives again and again," stated the great Kabbalah researcher.

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