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Yesterday, the television broadcast Israeli democracy vomiting on itself
As is sometimes the case, the most important political event was not necessarily the most powerful television event.
This time, the most shaky and enlightening moment throughout the broadcast was precisely the one where the commentators were left speechless, the special studios became redundant and the journalists became viewers.
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Nadav Menuhin
Monday, 14 June 2021, 09:10 Updated: 09:33
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Similar to the day of the broadcasts at the end of which Yair Lapid announced to the president that he had succeeded in forming a government, the political day yesterday with long broadcasts on all channels ranged from the feeling of history - yet some time since a non-Benjamin Netanyahu - and reality on the ground. Was blatantly undramatic.
But the air must be filled no matter what.
And so, when most of what is on the agenda is a mast break with RAAM, there have been many conversations that have already been heard, politicians have once again taken the obvious and repeated the messages, and in the first hours everything went - how to say - quite as expected, by all ceremonies. Most of the time, history has long been not so boring.
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Like unedited documentation of a live disaster.
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Thus, as sometimes happens, the most important political event was not necessarily the most powerful televised event. And this time, the most shaky and enlightening moment throughout the broadcast was precisely the one where the commentators were left speechless, the special studios were redundant and the journalists became viewers. It happened when right-wing Speaker Naftali Bennett came up to speak in plenary and outline the 36th government guidelines he would head, and the interjections that plundered the event prevented him from speaking and interrupted him over and over again, as Speaker Knesset failed to maintain order. The journalists sounded quiet most of the time, and this hallucinatory play was broadcast on television in an almost crude way, in all its ugliness. Television, nothing that came before or after was equally mesmerizing, not even a vote of confidence in a government that passed on the tip of a ballot.
Commentators occasionally mumbled something about having "more readings than a speech," but most of the time they kept quiet and let the players disgrace themselves and get on with a committee.
They were unnecessary at the event.
Their silence only contributed to the effect: like unedited documentation of a live disaster, television this time broadcasting Israeli democracy vomiting on itself with almost no screening.
Accordingly, it was difficult to watch.
What is left of the pure political broadcast, without mediation, without interpretation, without masks - is just throwing mud in public.
Anyone who wanted to learn about the state of our parliamentary politics today, with or without Netanyahu as leader, would have learned no more in any other part of the transmitter or from any retrospective interpretation.
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On the sidelines, it is worth noting the split screen at the end of the evening, between the celebrations of joy in Rabin Square and the gathering of Netanyahu's supporters near his residence.
Unlike the plenum, what happens on the ground is not a show that will end after the cameras go off.
In an age of such great polarization and division, the challenge for the media will not only be to find a way to further present these feelings, but to voice them simultaneously.
Not to intensify the debate, but on the contrary: to convince the public that these two positions can exist in full force at the same time.
Perhaps out of this understanding, the path to healing may begin, one day.
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