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A defining text by Benny Barbash.
“I really hope that the politicians and the president at their head do not think that we are taking to the streets because of the number of members of the committee for appointing judges…
We are fighting for the lost soul of the country.
We don’t sleep at night with worry.
Our compass flutters and we feel the sky falling and the earth shaking.
And we understand that there is no savior and we were left alone, and we called ourselves the flag.
We’re going out of our way because you’ve gone crazy.
We’re going out for our parents and for our children.
Because that’s how we were raised and that’s how we educate them, to love the country and work for it, work hard and respect others…
And we leave because we are angry and not because of clauses.
Angry that political leaders have become *tour guides to corruption, hatred, greed and lust for honor and greed*.
Angry that there are people who *dodge and diverge, suck the marrow and the future of the country*.
Angry that our taxes are being thrown away like junk stocks by spineless, incompetent whiners.
Angry that *criminals in suits have taken over the law* to legalize their past evil deeds.
They are angry at the prime minister who is ready for the country to burn and the people to be torn apart, as long as he saves his skin.
And we’re leaving because we’re tired of the madness of humiliation and not because of the small print in the laws.
We are tired of the moss on the wall calling us traitors while you are silent.
We are tired of poor ministers calling us racists and Ashkenazis when our children have no idea where they come from.
We are tired of being associated with Rolex watches that we don’t have and won’t have.
We are tired of hearing criminals dodging and ministers pretending that we are anarchists.
We want to tell you, Mr. President, busy politicians and shallow journalists – you are missing the point big time.
We woke up because we are living in a horror movie and we have no intention of sitting and watching from the side to see how the arguments between you will end.
We woke up because we were tired of being silent. Because we took responsibility.
Don’t look for a leader you can buy, and don’t spread imaginary compromises to us. We are not like you.
We started a fight and *will continue to fight* until you take your hands off the Supreme Court, until you learn to respect the other (or at least shut up) and until you embrace the Declaration of Independence into your heart.
Not a moment before.
Do you also feel that way? Pass it on so it reaches the right ears.”
A Defining Text – March 16, 2023 Read Post »
It didn’t take minutes before the coalition rejected the President’s proposal. And all he really said was that it was a basis for discussion. Listen to the President for goodness sake. He’s giving everyone something to base their discussions on and still no one is talking to anyone else.
Me, I would be talking to Ahmed Tibi – but I can’t find his phone or email. If you have a clue, let me know. Wait, I know people from his town. Why is this important to me? Because I have always loved his personality, and have written about him in the past, but he has been ignored and dissed so much in the past few years, I’m not surprised no Arab trusts us. As he once said to an empty Knesset hall – in Yiddish yet -“When the poor people get up to dance, the musicians break to take a piss.”
listen to him – March 16, 2023 Read Post »
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Herzog uses the expression “the golden path.” which may sound as if he considers his proposal perfect, but the translation is wrong – it is the phrase used for a compromise, the middle ground, and it is imperative at this point, because, as he says, we ARE on the brink of a civil war.
Where are the Arabs, who would benefit by this compromise? On the sidelines, waiting for the civil war. And I am sure their lives would not be improved in any way if this country imploded. It is like Hertzl said in his Altneuland, we complement each other, and we have all greatly benefitted from each others’ society.
So, if there is anyone of influence in any party you can write to, see what you can do to influence him to support this middle road. The president is finally saying something, and it is something we should listen to.
My Arab and Druze friends, please help out! I promise you it will be worth it.
president herzog – marh 16, 2023 Read Post »
The President has now announced a compromise – I haven’t had a chance to read it properly and already the criticisms are coming at him from all angles. He really worked hard on this compromise and the compromises I would have to make really hurt – but they are the only thing that would save us,
One thing is clear – this is the first time I have heard attention paid to the Arab population since before the last elections.
But I have to read things more carefully.
The President’s Compromise – March 15, 2023 Read Post »
Yesterday a terrorist crossed the Lebanese border, exactly next door to my friend’s house, hitched rides to Megiddo, and apparently blew up a big Hizballah bomb, wounding seriously a young Arab man who happened to be driving by. Everyone is wondering how he got there and why – but I, who often get my facts wrong, see the symbolism in Megiddo – or Armageddon in English. Don’t you?
armageddon – March 15, 2023 Read Post »
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group,” said George Carlin. And the “stupidization” of this country that has been progressing for the past dozen years or so is finally paying off. When the Minister of Health says that the blood bank has been emptying because the forms were changed with the last minister from “mother and father” to “parent 1 and parent 2,” people stopped donating, you have to understand what it means. Either everybody is crazy or he is.
And I am apparently following the trend. When I told the cardiologist today that the high dose I’ve been given lately is making me stupid, he said – very gently, “It isn’t the pills….”
titanic – March 14, 2023 Read Post »
because we have doctors’ appointments today that begin before 8 a.m. I was up at 5:30 and completely alert, a rare thing in these days when I am being pumped with an overdose of heart medicine. And ready for the day that began with a crane falling into the sea because of the weather, and the laws being passed to protect Bibi from being excused from his position. No laws to protect people from accidents, to control emissions, to improve the economy, to protect citizens’ rights – we don’t have time for that.
before the day – March 14, 2023 Read Post »
