Dr. Bella Smolin from Rambam Hospital came out the best of these days. She saw behind the action of the heads of the doctors' union "a Bolshevik method of operation." She also said in an interview with one of the news sites behind this struggle for democracy that she fears a dictatorship is emerging.
The name that activist doctors have taken for themselves – "The White Robes" – is also a bit creepy. Certainly when one recalls the phrase that was common on the lips of the Israeli left 70 years ago, "the murderers in white coats." This time it's doctors who deal with legal matters, that is, politics. In the distant past, this was a pogromist trial prepared by Stalin for doctors accused of a conspiracy to poison the Soviet leadership.
Apparently, Dr. Smolin, who came to Israel from the Soviet Union, manages to identify the malignant connection that exists in Israel and was very characteristic of the Soviet revolution: between science and propaganda, between medicine and politics, between the army and ideology and the politicization of the senior command, and of course between the secret services, whether secret police or thought police, and the political government.
So the doctors, as Irit Linor described a week ago, seem to have experienced the worst moral breakdown. Just to think that someone like Hagai Levin, whose mouth we listened intently to on coronavirus issues, is suddenly indulging in lying about the connection between the "grounds of reasonableness" and its cancellation and public medicine – and more in the periphery. Wasn't it the doctors' union that caused the problem of the shortage of doctors in Israel? The adherence of expert doctors like Levin to such Abra-Cadabra arguments raises the question of whether in Israel the era of Lysenko, the Soviet scientist who created photosynthesis between Marxism and plant theory, is not yet over.
System Degeneration
The Supreme Court was supposed to protect the choices of citizens. Instead, his judges fell in love with their ability to intervene in any government decision
In the end, the biggest distortion and mistreatment belongs to the judicial system, especially the Supreme Court and the Attorney General. The degeneration of this system corresponds to the degeneration of certain wings of the Air Force. It is hard to find a greater failure in a system that is supposed to represent both the rule of law and some justice than the willingness of its most senior judges to serve as a means of government in the hands of the ruling class.
The court should have protected the citizens and the government who elected free elections. Instead, judges like Meltzer and Hayut, and now an uninhibited legal adviser, fell in love with the wonders of government power. There is no government decision that they do not intervene in. In so doing, they contribute to the instability in the country, to the chaos directed by failed leaders of the past, to anarchy and to the physical threats to Israel's governmental institutions.
Gali Baharav-Miara, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
When the High Court rushes to mobilize in favor of the possibility of double disqualification – both of the law of incapacitation and of the abolition of the grounds of reasonableness – it signals to the rioters that the anti-democratic struggle and the long-awaited coup d'état are worthwhile. In other words, now we lost (or we won), but tomorrow maybe the Supreme Court will do the job. Maybe Gali Bahar-Miara. And so the instability continues, and it is clear that the president of the Supreme Court and the speaker above her are freezing Benny Gantz's blood and mind, and together with Dr. No's brutal threats, it is difficult to reach purposeful speech.
Once again, congratulations to the prime minister, who is one of the few who is not afraid of the coordinated pressure system between the White House, the New York Times editorial board, the pit in the Kirya, and the Kaplan Force and Brothers in Arms – illegal militias that threaten Israeli citizens today. Like doctors, the slogan is: We hurt patients but it's for their own good.
Unreasonable taste
Like Rabin, Netanyahu believes it is essential for Deri to sit around the decision-making table. Once again, the Supreme Court sages thought otherwise
The main issue regarding the concept of reasonableness is who is responsible for "reasonableness" considerations. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, in 1973 the head of Military Intelligence Zeira used an assessment of "low probability." All veteran demonstrators remember this plausibility. Or, by extension, reasonableness lies in the government's considerations. Reasonableness is not something that is rolled over to Supreme Court justices. For example, the court justices who were the dominant members of the Agranat Committee – Agranat himself and Landoy – decided that IDF Chief of Staff David Elazar did, and Golda and Dayan did not. Some would say that there is a problem of reasonableness here.
The person who most despised the Agranat Commission was Yitzhak Rabin, who demanded that the report be returned to the committee. Then, 20 years later, Rabin once again tasted the bitter and improbable taste of reasonableness as prime minister. The one that gave rise to the High Court ruling that ordered him to fire Deri and Panchasi during the Oslo Accords. Shas was Rabin's right-wing bulletproof vest. Socially it was of paramount importance.
The prime minister's reasonableness considerations were that Deri and his colleagues were extremely vital to social and political stability during the Oslo Accords. Judge Aharon Barak smashed the bulletproof vest with all that this entails. And it's not just the deterioration into Rabin's assassination; It is also who and how they replaced Shas, an Iranian spy and Mitsubishi. It was very reasonable.
Ayelet Shaked testified this week in an article in this newspaper that Aharon Barak dismissed the reasonableness clause when he told her that they also have "proportionality," and other nice words to use them. Once again, we hear that Arie Deri is vital to the circle of decision-makers surrounding Prime Minister Netanyahu. But the sages of the High Court, as you will recall, disqualified him. It is interesting that by an overwhelming majority they invaded the fences of the Knesset, which was elected by the people. There was no major controversy regarding Deri's disqualification. There was only one judge who deviated slightly from ideological collectivity.
Biden throws matches at us
The White House plotted to use President Herzog to distract us, as if relations with the United States had returned to normal
President Isaac Herzog had an impressive speech at Congress, a joint session of both houses. That was just over a week ago. But then came the messenger from Times Square, Thomas Friedman, whom a group of retired senior officers had made a pilgrimage to a few months ago. Friedman seemed to be sending a signal from the White House, and as hard as it is to believe, Biden's plot was to use Herzog as a stage prop for distraction when the operating mechanism of retired senior defense and air force officials went into operation. Herzog's visit planted hopes that relations with the United States had returned to normal. But no. Biden throws matches at us.
It's worth remembering what his boss, President Barack Obama, said about Biden: Joe's ability to screw anything should never be underestimated. And so it turns out that this weekend Herzog, who looks like an alternative leader for the future, faded away. The reason it has faded is because of the old disease of left-wing parties in the post-Yitzhak Rabin era: a lack of courage to take leadership and call things by their names – defection, sabotage, subversion – and dare to defend the democratically elected government against an unrestrained judicial system and a junta group of field marshals imbued with dark lust for destruction. But it must be remembered that the most decorated soldier in the IDF placed the cross on his former assistant Herzog, comparing him to Chamberlain.
For the sake of historical justice
The film "Golda" draws a new narrative around Golda. Oppenheimer crowns (again) the most important man in human history
The film "Golda" starring Helen Mirren outlines a new narrative regarding the prime minister in the Yom Kippur War. No longer the "wicked old lady," but a female Churchill. No longer "they are not nice" and social obtuseness, but a leader who bravely met with the soldiers at the front and looked them in the eye.
This is nothing new to me. At the time, I heard Binyamin Amidror claim that she was bigger than Begin and perhaps equal to Ben-Gurion. Because Golda's suckers, as the fighters of attrition and Yom Kippur were called, were not told that brave Israel was fighting against an alliance in which the Soviet power set the tone in alliance with the aggressive tyranny of the Arab states.
We live in a new era. After years when the likelihood of a nuclear threat was low, the war in Ukraine has brought it back into the news. And now the US president is more concerned about the "likelihood" than the likelihood that Iran will have a bomb, and is already just a decision away from moving forward
But the film plays mostly on the sound of wind instruments, while the touching concerto of her close relationship with her noble friend Lou Kidder should be played on violin and viola. This is, of course, the original part of the film. A great war drama centered on the story of friendship and even extraordinary love between two very old women - one 75 years old, the other 60 years old. And the wonderful actresses: the English Helen Mirren and the wonderful French Camille Cotin from the series "Call my agent".
Israeli players don't come close to this league. The film contains irritating inaccuracies and speculation about Eli Zeira and the special measures and about Moshe Dayan's behavior in moments of crisis. Only for the sake of historical justice – Dayan, and not the senior commanders in the Golan Heights, was the one who demanded to defend the Golan Heights at all costs. The senior commanders on the northern front are the ones who lamented that we had already lost the level.
Helen Mirren as Golda, from the film, photo: Courtesy of United King Films
But the more topical film is Oppenheimer, a three-hour saga about the so-called "father of the atomic bomb." In the film, someone throws out a statement that Oppenheimer is the most important person in human history. Director Christopher Nolan also repeats this in various statements, and in a podcast from recent weeks, Oppenheimer's biographer also ponders this possibility. So that's the classic American problem: A year ago he wasn't the most important man in human history, and next year he won't be either, but now there's a big movie and an Oscar, so you have to think that way.
The film's weakness is not the drama and reenactment of the activities of the atomic scientists, which Oppenheimer collected to make the bomb in the Manhattan Project, but the script that follows the injustice done to J. Robert Oppenheimer during the McCarthy era. This is what bothers American creators today - that a liberal atomic scientist is persecuted by the evil forces of nuclear strategy in the Cold War, and the persecution is carried out in the spirit of McCarthyism. The committee discussing the renewal of his security clearance clings to Berkeley's past in the 30s, in an environment of communists, in order to distance him from the circle of decision-makers.
The known consequences of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki don't really get the weight they deserve. There are hints of human catastrophe. But what worries the American intelligentsia today are the hardships of the conscientious liberal in the face of a character assassination machine. The person who is burned at the stake in the film is another Jew, Louis Strauss (Robert Downey in a tremendous role), an admiral whose essence is a "shoe merchant" who rose to prominence. Civil war. In general, from the period of persecution by the Communists in the late 40s and 50s, the gay Jewish lawyer Roy Cohen remains at the end, and Joe McCarthy himself fades into memory. Not Robert Kennedy, not Truman, not Nixon, but Roy Cohen and now Strauss.
Oppenheimer is the ultimate denier of Jewish identity. Cillian Murphy plays a pretty good role, but you don't feel that behind the neutron and electron masks there is a Jewish soul. He belongs to the most dominant assimilated tribe - the Jewish Germans who immigrated to America. He is well versed in the Sanskrit scriptures, but there is nothing Jewish that is not foreign to him.
According to the film, based on the 17-year-old biography "American Prometheus," Oppenheimer was a mixture of megalomaniac and opportunist who would do anything for achievement and success. In the case of the bomb, he has a strong motive - to precede Hitler's bomb, and it is not at all certain that the Holocaust bothered him so much. The genius of the entire project manager, General Leslie Groves, was that he noticed that this Jew, hovering in the quantum clouds, unable to run a hamburger stand, was the best person to run the scientific department that was indispensable for the development of the bomb. This was despite the fact that it was clear to General Groves that Oppenheimer was a "pink", that is, a friend of the Communists, but not a party member, but only a lover of a party member.
Today we live in a new era in which the bomb is back on the scene. After years when the likelihood of a nuclear threat was (very) low, the war in Ukraine has brought it back into the news. Most importantly, the American contempt for a terrorist state like Iran to possess nuclear weapons. It's also a new kind of gross negligence: The U.S. president is more concerned about "likelihood" than the likelihood that Iran will have a bomb and is already a decision away from leaning ahead.
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