And we will remember the dramatic entrance of Breaking the Silence. When they broke out, they presented everything sexy about the dilemma of serving in an occupying army. In their image, they had everything: no longer strange and clueless draft dodgers, but (mostly) combat IDF veterans who decided, well, to "break the silence!" and expose to the ignorant Israeli public that has never served the war crimes that the best of its sons are committing against the Palestinians. They reported thousands of "secret" testimonies they had collected, and received a surprisingly terrible media embrace for their courage.
The money and invitations to the studios flowed, until their egos jumped and they began to publish open testimonies. The flights and fundraising in Europe confused Shush, who forgot that Israel is a small country where everyone is somehow connected to everyone.
Therefore, they thought that a reserve officer could simply identify himself by name and the name of his unit and tell about harming innocent people without soldiers who served with him appearing and subtly hinting to him that he was fabricating. More (and more) "testimonies from the field" exploded red-handed after they turned out to be "maybe we exaggerated a bit, but the principle is clear!" Add a hair-raising investigation into Ovda (the second part of which was shelved because Ilana Dayan folded after pressure from the left), and the establishment of a confrontational Zionist organization called "My Truth" - and you get a bang in the face of Shush, who became lepers and were angrily expelled even from the kibbutz leftist strongholds.
The end is known. The Shush, realizing that they had sinned in hubris, quickly stopped and behaved rationally for the first time: they stopped making open faces and returned to "secret testimonies." Along the way, they also stopped wearing the costume and skipped directly to their main target audience: foreign money and luxurious hotels on the way to another panel of "shoot and cry" lectures without a Golanchik audience that would embarrass them from the stand.
The money and invitations to the studios flowed, until their egos jumped and they began to publish open testimonies. The flights and fundraising in Europe confused Shush, who forgot that Israel is a small country where everyone is somehow connected to everyone else
Israel Hayom published a fascinating video article in which Rotman and Brothers in Arms member Ron Scharf were confronted. Sources will leak that it was allegedly hinted at resin ahead of time to avoid the adventure. That being a brave fighter in the reserves is nice, but less effective in arguing with an experienced jurist. The continuation is expected: we will not know what the brave Scharf did during his service in Sayeret Matkal, but we will forever treasure Sharaf, bruised and humiliated by Rotman.
The organization's PR had to work overtime to edit a video with the few moments when Scharf didn't appear to be a scolding kid waiting for the nightmare to end, but rather as "the one who showed Rothman what it was!" What Shosh Maharisha has in common is clear: two organizations, which began as "loving and caring for Israel" in the name of a false principle about justice, continued as an organization that degrades Israel in the world, and one of them ended up becoming synonymous in the Israeli public with informers of the lowest kind. The first, a full-fledged post-Zionist, fell because of ego. The second, at the moment, is still far from post-Zionism, and its comrades were not caught in embarrassing lies about their military service, but the trips abroad and the humiliation of the country in front of the whole world? They're already there.
The good news is that Ahal members have sweated quite a bit in recent days in order to shake off the comparisons to the Shush organization. The Israeli public still shies away from Shush and sees it as an impure body. Let's hope the brothers in arms think the same. But go trust the ego.
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