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Opinion Justice is blind, and also deaf to screams Israel today

2023-02-22T05:01:45.482Z


When everyone has megaphones and earplugs, no one hears • This is exactly the Israeli story at the moment • In a democracy you have to demonstrate, be enthusiastic and fight, but you also have to know how to listen • Mainly to the other side, because we know our side very well • If we don't do this - we will discover that it is possible to be Right, but there will be no one to justify us


The lady burst into the musical instrument store with vigorous determination:

"Bring me the loudest megaphone you have! I'm going up to Jerusalem and we're going to surround the Knesset! Seven times, like in Jericho, until this building is completely destroyed!"

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But madam, I asked, and what about the opposition?

And the Knesset workers?

Do you want to destroy them too?

And what will we do after the Knesset is destroyed?

"Excuse me, what did you ask?"

, said the lady,

"I'm sorry, I can't hear that well, I'm wearing earplugs for the demonstration...".

"I don't hear that much, I'm wearing earplugs for the demonstration."

Protest against the legal reform (archive), photo: GettyImages

Loudspeakers and seals, destruction and ruins, trumpets and trumpets.

If you want, and even if you really don't - this is the Israeli story at the moment.

Everyone is shouting, no one is listening.

Or rather, we all listen to the shouts and screams of those with us, which makes it even more problematic, because it only reinforces the feeling of "we are the world, we are the children...".

Everyone is shouting, no one is listening.

The Knesset Plenum, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

We all have the right to shout, but there is only noise left

That's right, the right to shout to me, the right to shout to you, the right to shout to all of us, and to all tera-la-la-la.

That's how it is in a democracy - shouting.

But even in ancient Greece they realized that if everyone shouts, you only hear a deafening noise.

In a democracy you have to demonstrate, be enthusiastic and fight, but you also have to know how to listen.

Mainly to the other side, because we know our side well.

We have always been a polarized people, this is not new.

Sometimes it seems that more than we love the peace of the fig and vine, we love the polar speakers.

But even in core skirmishes in our past - the reparations agreement, the peace agreement with Egypt, the Lebanon war, the Oslo Accords, the disengagement - we knew how to shout and demonstrate for or against.

Even in core skirmishes, we knew how to talk the painful way to the decision of the unequal valley.

Oslo I signing ceremony at the White House, photo: Gideon Markovich

But we also knew how to talk the painful way to the unequal valley decision.

This is how these skirmishes created speeches and stains that carved flames and laid foundation stones, words and discussions that established our identity as a nation made up of its many contradictions, but a complex one.

In the current situation, we are all jackboots and gaskets.

The people of Israel were divided into two poles.

It means "my bride", and it means "my bride".

And both of them - he will be killed and not pass, or he will pass and be killed, what does it matter if there is someone left here to do something with him the day after.

Don't leave out of obligation

In the court, in the private house.

Look to the right and to the left, to loved ones and loved ones, family members or soul mates, relatives and close friends: have you ever felt that they are completely wrong and that you are completely right?

Of course it is.

We are all human and farm girls who are too confident in the rightness of their claim.

But Gauss's justice curve proves that reality is often pretty average.

Let's listen to the other side, and try to understand that there is (also) justice in his words.

Protest against the legal reform, photo: Reuters

They say that justice is blind - now it must also be deaf.

And yet, let's hope he has some heart left.

And no, it's not to get out of the duty of preaching "to both sides".

Let's listen to the other side, and try to understand that there is (also) justice in his words.

For, if we do not descend from the planet of absolute justice - we will very quickly discover that it is possible to be righteous, but there will be no one left to justify us.

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Source: israelhayom

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