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Fire will come out of heaven and eat you.
#מחריפים the struggle#Government of Sodom
Reminds you of a campaign you saw this week?
It reminds me, and after being shocked I decided to relax and turn it into a game, even though it's not at all light and really not funny. Because when sophisticated people take advantage of the innocence of weak links, that's cruelty.
Burning tires: Brothers in arms protests outside Levin's home // Jonathan Shaul
And when sophisticated people have a political interest and the weak links are in a crisis situation, it's a zero-sum game that harms all the organs of the important and good body called the State of Israel.
It's hard for me to believe that whoever came up with the poster with a picture of Miri Regev really thought that as transport minister there was a possibility that she would ban travel on Shabbat. After all, Miri Regev, who received a digital image processing reminiscent of the genre of medieval martyrs' paintings, is known as a completely secular person. Education Minister Yoav Kish, who got his own poster with the intimidation that would force Israeli students to put on tefillin every morning (especially relevant at the start of the summer vacation, I assume), is not among those whose religious practice is included in his medication basket. The connection between the objects of the campaign and the intimidation that is supposed to come out of them is quite tenuous. And yet, there is an audience that eats these hateful bait, not necessarily through their own fault.
What do the leaders of the protest – which is currently turning into civil disobedience – think when they decide to abandon the path of reason and choose a path whose rationale is limited? Moreover, why don't the protest leaders understand that out of hatred for the education minister, their series of posters also exposes hatred for tefillin, and thus they lose a huge audience along the way that, even if they don't go crazy about Kish, may have feelings for Judaism? The protest that once sought a consensus and tried to convince them that it was for the people and not against them, that it wanted peace and not just anti-Bibi, thus turns its back on the traditional, the religious, the ultra-Orthodox, or just the secular who had fun receiving a gift related to Judaism at his bar mitzvah and has been sitting in his sock drawer ever since, until his son reaches the age of mitzvah and puts on tefillin once and enough. Unless Yoav Kish shoots otherwise, of course.
Protest in front of Yariv Levin's home this week, photo: Jonathan Shaul
The protest is skydiving, and you can give a thousand excuses for that. The problem is that on the way to the cliff, it scatters gunpowder on the streets of Israeli society, which are already scorched.
Just sand and sand
We talked about the collapse of society on the left, now let's approach its collapse on the right. Let me put it this way, Yonit: The hilltop boys need someone like Yoav Kish to force them to put on tefillin in the morning. Because the chaos created in their lives, usually for reasons that are not political at all, but family (quarrels with parents, for example) or educational (such as dropping out of educational institutions), cause them, under the cover of the precarious security situation, to heed the messages of sophisticated people with political interests who exploit their innocence, as weak links in a crisis situation. Another zero-sum game that harms the State of Israel.
When a left-wing government rules and handsome boys are murdered in Samaria, the address is clear – the government of Israel. But when a right-wing government is in power, it's not clear where to direct the anger.
The results of the riots in the village of Lubban a-Sharqiya, photo: AP
Ben-Gvir calls from his office in the Knesset to climb the hills, and at the cabinet meeting in the very same building, Netanyahu replies through the media that he must act within the framework of the law, otherwise the settlement will be harmed. Ben-Gvir answers again through the same cameras, and the self-goal is actually scored by the person who launches the "Klages" campaign against Benjamin's brigade commander, Eliav Elbaz, and ignites a war between settler groups and the army, while in the field of the big ones there is satisfaction: Netanyahu managed to position himself as a moderate and Ben-Gvir to position himself as an extremist. Judea and Samaria is also angry at the government's incompetence, which does not formulate a proper strategy against terrorism.
Two factors live reality on the ground – the residents and the security forces. Security forces know how many attacks are prevented, not just how many take place. Neither side has an interest in making the brigade commander's private phone number public and calling it names. Remember the shock of Isaiah Leibowitz's invective of IDF soldiers, and of post-Zionist professors' invective of Hebron settlers in the 90s? One can be shocked again.
Trumpet and piano
We can only ask who benefits from this incitement against the security forces, who did not choose their role and are not elected by us, while the real responsibility for the situation rests on the shoulders of others.
The hilltop youth harm Judea and Samaria, just as the hate campaign harms the protest movement.And just as the leaders of the left should have felt while the refuseniks and hate-mongers are not only destroying their protest, but harming the state, so the leaders of Judea and Samaria should understand that compassion for the youth who enter the villages, and the fear of calling their actions terrorism, may explode inside. And it's already here.
Settlers shoot at Arabs who rioted on the road // 27A
"Words are ladders," Shlomo Gronich wrote in his wonderful poem "Trumpet and Piano." Gronich sings a picture, which is a nostalgic painting of childhood alongside a father who sticks to his children's workout routine so that they are talented musicians; Describes grandfather and grandmother, the landscape, children's quarrels, dreams, disappointments and longing that remains when everything is over.
Words are scales - this is the opening statement, and in light of it the description occurs. It is possible to commit suicide from them as in Masada, it is possible to climb them with the help of approximate steps. The posters of the "Government of Sodom" and the protest of the "Klages" are ladders that jump straight into the abyss.
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