Scout Grant presents: Let the world burn, the main thing is that we talk about it politely

In the first episode of the season of "Scout Grant Without Borders", which dealt with the movement that strives to rebuild the temple on the Temple Mount, the esteemed presenter gave an almost unrestrained stage and even indulged in racist attitudes from "the bride" and almost completely missed the other sides of the conversation.

It ends up yelling at the wrong thing

Nadav Menuhin

02/08/2022

Tuesday, 02 August 2022, 08:19 Updated: 08:40

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From "Scout Grant Without Borders", August 1, 2022 (Network 13)

Scout Grant is not afraid of minefields.

Maybe she was never afraid.

This is not a matter of course for media people in this day and age, or at all.

She has the audacity to come and talk about explosive and radical topics, as if it were a casual conversation about the weather.

This is a position that must be appreciated.

But courage does not make minefields any less dangerous.

In order not to explode, you have to behave with maximum responsibility, and in the media case: give context, distinguish between the main and the minor, give signs and be careful not to get lost.

And in the opening episode of the season of "Scout Grant Without Borders" (Network 13), which dealt with the various sides of the Messianic movement that aspires to build the Third Temple on the Temple Mount at any cost, which serves a lost halachic, gave an almost unbridled platform to racist attitudes from the "bride" as well. Missed almost completely the other sides of the conversation, and came out with a problematic conclusion in itself.

The paradox of listening.

Scout Grant (Photo: Reshet)

There are several main problems with Grant's televised ascent to the Temple Mount.

The first is the depth of the conversation: it is impossible to enter into such an explosive topic only while mentioning the fact that it is one of the most explosive topics that exist.

"Scout Grant Without Borders" comes "to hear", but fails to give the viewers any historical, social and cultural context beyond a few opening sentences to introduce the characters - and it is also at the level of the title, which is washed in itself many times, and not much beyond that.

Therefore, the conversation remains at the level of slogans that are not really challenged, and plays into the hands of those who sell a fantasy that masks shocking consequences, at best, and open and blatant racists at worst.

This superficiality characterizes the entire script, which was actually built on one side, or at least 50 shades of one side.

The Palestinians exist only as an intimidation, except for one person who appears to have accidentally and spontaneously joined one of the conversations.

The silent majority, the average Israeli, who is indifferent to the status quo on the Temple Mount, has no need for a third temple and does not understand why he has to die in a holy war of fanatics - he is not a party to the conversation at all, and Grant only barely represents him.

Even when Grant organizes a confrontation or looks for opponents - it's a conversation between shades of religious and ultra-Orthodox.

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But what was especially jarring in the episode of "Scout Grant Without Borders" is, well, the limits of inclusion.

Out of a desire to hear and accommodate, she presented a caressing and soft approach even to sickening and racist attitudes, and in rare cases she pointed out with sailing gentleness, almost condescending, that perhaps there is also another (and obvious) side to things.

But at the end of the episode Grant was shocked.

Grant could no longer contain the confrontation between Dov Halbertal and Arnon Segal - both of whom, by the way, are competing during the broadcast of the episode in the "Religious Zionism" primaries, which of course was not mentioned.

This argument was too "violent" for her.

This embodies the embarrassing paradox of the entire plan: let the world burn and the war of Gog and Magog begin, the main thing is that we can talk about it in a good and respectful atmosphere, and of course politely.

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