Joaz Handel is not a racist, just an ignorant man. He's lucky to be a stud

Within the imaginative Israeli society that Handel lives in, there is a better culture and a better culture - and the better one will swallow the bad and contain it. It's a beautiful fantasy, but the musical example he decided to give reveals how distorted and dangerous his conception is. opinion

Joaz Handel is not a racist, just an ignorant man. He's lucky to be a stud

(In the video: Yair Garbuz cuts himself a hole)

If Ya'azel Handel was lower, with a distinctly unsexed belly, shaggy hair spilled under a balding head - he would end up like a stocking. Luckily for him, it's just the opposite. Handel is the most beautiful Israeli, in the full sense and without cynicism. Beyond beautiful eyes, he really loves the country, really wants the Jews here to become light to Gentiles and believes that elected officials, like him, should set an example for statehood. This is also why he is so opposed to Netanyahu. I believe him. And yet, had it not been for the sabotaged spectacle with the entertaining blur of spirit - his political career would probably be over this past weekend, after blurting out some statements that could easily be turned in racist directions. Instead, everyone judged his position by position. Left-wing voters claimed to be out of context, right-wing voters said it was the true face of "blue-white" and back again.

In an interview published in Haaretz newspaper, Handel again explained his controversial idea of ​​Israel being a "jungle villa" in the Middle East. For Handel, the Jews who settled in the fiery desert and established a country for glory are better, smarter, more advanced - and probably more right - than any of our Arab neighbors, who have not yet evolved enough to respect basic human rights. Not to mention women's or LGBT rights. The reality will prove, and quite easily, that he is not wrong in most of his claims.

Handel does not claim that the Arab person is not sufficiently developed to develop human rights awareness, but that most Arab countries are governed by Muslim-religious leadership that eliminates any possibility of development on these issues. In a wonderful coincidence, veteran journalist Nahum Barnea visited the triangular Shabbat supplement of Yedioth Ahronoth, and heard from local residents how much they prefer to live as citizens of the State of Israel, and reluctant to join any future Palestinian state. National aspirations aside, we all prefer to live in a jungle air-conditioned villa, no matter how crowded it is, or some uncomfortable infrastructure. The alternative is certainly less preferable.

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Talking rubbish. Yoaz Handel (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Yoaz Handel, Election List for 22nd Knesset, Central Election Commission, August 1, 2018 (Photo: Reuben Castro)

To say that Israel is a more advanced country than neighboring Arab countries is not racism, it is a fact. On the other hand, this is not such a big bargain either. Israel should not compare itself to Lebanon or Libya, but to the OECD countries to which it is proud to belong. And this comparison, what to do, is a little less flattering. Even the fact that Handel's blue and white party would welcome any coalition led by "progressive" parties such as Shas or Torah Jewry - whose treatment of women and LGBTs is far from those of our neighbors - has been omitted.

With unclear fairness, the excellent interviewer Royte Hecht offered Handel some exit options for his linguistic entanglement, but Handel chose to ignore the warning signs and decided to double his bet. Which made his words much more annoying. His explanations of the culture created in Israel were the product of far more stupidity than racism. Handel portrayed Israeli culture as a fusion of "people from all kinds of countries, some with a concert mentality in Vienna and some with a narcotic mentality."

Within the imaginative Israeli society that Handel lives in, there is a better culture and a better culture - and the better one will swallow the bad and contain it. It's a beautiful fantasy, but the musical example he decided to give reveals how distorted and dangerous his conception is. It is doubtful that he is doing it with real racism, he is more likely to do it out of pure ignorance.

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It's not like there were musical geniuses after him. Mozart

Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Photo: Creative Commons)

To be clear, there is no better or less good music. Comparing Beethoven's symphonies and Handel's oratorios (don't know if there is a family connection) to Muhammad Abd al-Wahab's Macmum and Umm Kulthum has a foundation for cultural and musical arguments, but it will eventually end in a matter of taste. To the Western ear accustomed to harmonically-based music, it is difficult to appreciate the genius of the Arab rhythms, and vice versa. There is music that can be academically proven to be more complex and deeper, but there is no more "beautiful" or "better" music. Just as there is no correct answer to the argument who is bigger: Messi or Ronaldo (except for the undeniable fact that by any human scale, Messi is much better, yes?).

Professor Dan Arieli had previously tried to explain how it had been hundreds of years since Mozart's death, and he had not yet established a composer who threatened his status as a great composer of the world. According to Arieli, Mozart's musical "quality" cannot be quantified or even evaluated, and it is impossible to determine if his symphonies are better than Drake's good song. The fact that Mozart is considered the greatest composer is linked to a social hierarchy that Western society has adopted. It is part of social coordination that helps us navigate our lives in a world full of complications. We have enough things to worry about on a daily basis, but at least we all agree that Mozart was a genius. This can be done without erasing the plethora of other spice cultures, just as one can admire Michael Jordan's greatness without underestimating LeBron James's unimaginable abilities. And just as much as one can appreciate the fact that Yoaz Handel can say so much crap, without it even hurting a quarter of his confusing party.

By the way, everyone is talking about Handel's racial aroma mouth emissions, rather than referring to the fact that he fully admitted that he was responsible for Benny Gantz's failure to form a government, and that is why Netanyahu is still in power and we are going to the election for the third time. Not to mention it's a little more important than Handel's musical taste.