As the language on the left become more and more hysterical, most people I know have been turning away from the news, from politics, from talking about anything but our health and our pleasures. As Bibi prophecizes doom for the country, the end of the state, it seems more and more people have turned to fiddling. I myself wasted more than a third of my salary today on luxuries I had no real need of because if I’m going to get run over by hoards of Hamas, I might as well look good, no?

Do I think the government that will take over next week will destroy us? Not at all. But I do fear that the current incitement to violence is much worse than I remember before Rabin was assassinated. Of course, I am only referring to the violence of the right against the left. The violence incipient in this situation with Hamas is something separate, and needs to be handled by a strong yet wise authority. Our violence of left and right against one another makes us less capable of dealing with the really dangerous forces – who do want to destroy us.