One of the recurring arguments in the discussions surrounding the struggle against legal reform is based on comparisons with the period of disengagement.
Supporters of the reform and those opposed to the demonstrations compare the different attitude of the police for blocking roads during the Disengagement period ("Shit on them to burn," Shaham tried) to the blocking of roads today (marches of the Cascade peoples and bonfires in Ayalon), between the large number of indictments then and the small number today.
Still, there was no selfie at the time, but it is very clear that if any of the disengagement supporters stood on a tractor the day after the Gush Katif ruins and took a smiling selfie, he would have been hit hard.
The coalition celebrates after the passage of the law to abolish the cause of reasonableness // Credit: Yehuda Schlesinger
Unlike votes on a budget or important social amendments, the atmosphere in the Knesset after the vote was not a happy one. Netanyahu, Galant, Smotrich or Deri rushed out of the plenum after the vote. Levin, who was supposed to be at the center of the celebration and, as ministers do in a similar situation, jumped from studio to studio and scored a few points for his success, did not hold a press conference and refused to be interviewed. The plenary selfies were unnecessary. We don't stick a finger in the eye, we don't celebrate at the expense of brothers' pain.
Even if the opponents of the reform are wrong and a dictatorship does not develop here, we must not ignore the difficult feelings they have been feeling lately. It's unfriendly, inhumane and immoral.
Refuses to be interviewed. Yariv Levin, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
From sticking a finger in one eye to sticking a finger in another: The publication of the Basic Torah Study Law by MK Moshe Roth of Torah Judaism the morning after the vote on the grounds of reasonableness, when many citizens feel difficult feelings, is a delusional step. If his submission was deliberately it is unreasonable malice, if it was done innocently it is insane sluggishness.
Beyond the question of timing, the issue of recruitment, which is expected to be enacted in the form of a package of laws that includes the Basic Law on Torah Study (determining that Torah study is a supreme value), the Deferral of Service Law (exemption from conscription), and the Service Appreciation Law (raising the salaries of those who serve) is an even more important, substantial and dramatic law than the legal reform. While the legal reform touches on changing the judicial system, the draft law is expected to formally perpetuate inequality between citizens and citizens. Between a guy who has to go to the army and a guy who gets an exemption and goes to a yeshiva.
A law that will perpetuate inequality. A young ultra-Orthodox man near the recruitment office, photo: Saliber Fitoussi/Flash 90
It contains some bright spots and correct thought, such as raising the wages of those who serve or lowering the exemption age so that Haredim can integrate into the labor market sooner, but the official statement of the State of Israel that there is discrimination between people is a very harsh, unequal and very difficult statement to digest.
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