Recently I heard about a professor of great reputation and rights, a very old man, who fell into hysteria.
As a result of what he hears in the press and in his circles of acquaintances, he has come to the conclusion that the new government is going to throw him in jail, just because his personal positions revolve around the Lapid-Ganz parties.
In the end, they managed to calm the man down, but his internal drama illustrates the stream of consciousness that the leaders of the resistance to the reform manage to create.
This is far beyond demonization.
This is a systematic campaign of incitement, a whole system of lies, extreme exaggerations, intimidation and breaking tools, which, if not stopped immediately, will lead us to frightening national results.
The brainwashing reverberates from every direction.
As a member of the Israel Defense Forces, this week I heard a man explain passionately that what is happening here now is exactly what happened in Germany in 1933, with the rise of Hitler's regime. The speaker was convinced that very few people would disappear in the streets. The same frequency of concerns is evident in the interviews that are conducted with young people and just innocent interviewees who show up for demonstrations against the reform.
Students from Tel Aviv University in protest against the legal reform, this week, photo: Gideon Markovich
These are a lot of good people who are poisoning their brains, taking legitimate concerns and criticism and making them feel that a full-fledged dictatorship will soon be established here: they will be deprived of their rights, they will not be able to express themselves and live as they were used to, and a heavy fog of arbitrariness, corruption and religious coercion is about to descend on all of us .
The outrageous costumes along the lines of "The Handmaid's Tale" illustrate the power of incitement - everyone is going to be turned into a slave.
At the same time, the images from Nazi Germany and the world of concepts of the Stalin era became routine for the speakers of the opposition and protest.
The weekly Nazism diagnoser in the Knesset is Ram Ben Barak, a man who was deputy head of the Mossad, unbelievable.
At the same time, a false consciousness is being promoted led by the central media.
Part of it is built through the manipulative comparisons to the reality that prevails in Poland and Hungary, which do not concern us.
And while the coalition fails miserably to explain the justified basis for the very implementation of the reform, the other side distorts the data regarding other countries in the world, such as the US. Democratic countries, even though they have procedures very similar to some of what is being proposed now.
In the ranks of protest activists, all means have become kosher - everything is allowed in an attempt to intimidate and motivate people to action.
The opening signal for this move was actually given by the former president of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, who likened the reform to an invasion of the Supreme Court with tanks.
And the incitement works.
From all sides I hear friends and acquaintances who do not really understand the intricacies of the debate, but are terrified and feel that this is a war against the enemy, for the home.
Not that there is nothing to criticize in the moves of the leaders of the reform, not that some of them do not have extraneous motives, not that the structure they are promoting is free of problems, but please do not exaggerate.
Problems should be fought in a matter-of-fact manner, without false plots and without pushing us to the brink of a fratricidal war.
It's just that the multitude of provocateurs behind the campaign of incitement are doing exactly the opposite, including many high-ranking people: politicians, academics, retired judges and journalists.
It is time to stop and understand the magnitude of the danger we are in, right on the edge of the abyss.
And to remember that those responsible for its realization will be recorded forever, as those who destroyed, God forbid, the rise of the Jewish people in their country.
Why do we need legal reform?
This week the coalition fought with a knife between its teeth to pass the first stage of the reform in the first reading, but when you look at the moves of the Prime Minister it is not clear for what purpose.
Because even the legislation that began to pass this week in the Knesset is all about technical measures.
It is not about values and ideas, but tools designed to allow the Knesset and the government to instill values.
And precisely in the last week it is not clear what the value dispute between the parties is, for which it is worth turning worlds.
The coalition's spokesmen shout that the legal system prevents them from ruling according to their worldview, but what exactly is this government trying to lead that the courts and the ombudsmen are preventing it from carrying out, except for Deri training and the elite status for the ultra-Orthodox?
One of the dramatic arenas for the past confrontations with the High Court and the ombudsmen concerns settlement in the Yosh. And here, this week, members of the Smotrich party were forced to reach an agreement regarding the powers of the minister in the Ministry of Defense, which is far from what was signed in the coalition agreement. An agreement that is unclear as to what its practical consequences will be.
But Even worse, while they are celebrating the announcement of the qualification of nine settlements, along with the intention to approve thousands of planning permits in the Yosh, Binyamin Netanyahu pulled the rug from under their feet.
The government closed a deal with Abu Mazen, photo: GettyImages
Unbeknownst to his partners, he made a deal with the US and the enemy - Abu Mazen. What was published about the deal is enough to destroy the coalition agreement and the full right-wing government's goals in the field of settlement and governance. Had she acted like this, the Netanyahu bloc would have shaken the heavens.
In an attempt to save Abu Mazen's reign of terror, the right-wing government made a deal with him, according to which the Palestinians and their sympathizers would freeze a proposed resolution against us at the UN, and in return we would freeze settlement and governance in the Palestinian Territories.
In the coming period, no more will be trained from the settlements of the young settlement, nor will any action be taken against the illegal takeover of the Palestinians in areas C. Say hello to Khan al-Ahmar.
What a winning recipe for the Palestinians.
How is this move consistent with the commitments in the coalition agreements?
How does this fit in with the powers that the minister is supposed to exercise in the Ministry of Defense?
On the face of it, even the current Bibi government will not deviate from the historical lines of the Netanyahu governments.
Therefore, why do we need legal reform?
What exactly did the "leftist" system limit the "rightist" government here?
What is a reform for?
MK Dodi Amsalem, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
operating undercover
This is also true in the field known as "governance".
While Itamar Ben Gabir strives to bring about a fundamental change in the perception of law enforcement, for example in East Jerusalem, it became clear that the Prime Minister secretly used the heads of the security establishment against him.
He sent the head of the Shin Bet and his ilk to intimidate Ben Gabir and gave up on those who demand a change in the rules of the game, to leave everything as it was: minimum enforcement for the Arabs, maximum tyranny towards the Jews of Yosh.
From here, what exactly is the confrontation with the system that is claimed to be left-wing and "privileged"?
This week we heard excited speeches about the masses who can finally straighten their backs, because they have been given representation in the courts.
But representation for what?
To provide Rolexes to Muslim uncles and privileges to the ultra-Orthodox public, or to allow a safe route for the whims of the Netanyahu family in front of the state treasury?
Not that there is a lack of good reasons to responsibly correct the distortion created between the authorities due to the famous coup of the 1990s.
But this week it is no longer clear what exactly the legal system is preventing from Netanyahu's fancy right-wing government.
Because most of the value issues that need correction have pretty much dropped out of the chapter.
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