Confused Europe wanted to indulge in green energy, wind turbines, and turbines begging for the sun in mid-December. But Putin, who still controls the gas and oil taps, knows that when it’s cold and the pipeline is closed, ideologies melt like snow in Russia in April.
There are days in the Jewish calendar that manage, in some supernatural, almost mystical way, to stop time. Yom Kippur is one of them. It doesn’t matter if you are a religious Israeli or a completely secular one who feels that the closest rabbi to you is the shawarma man at the Carmel Market. Perhaps this is the essence of true Zionism: a country where Yom Kippur is not a day off from work to go shopping, but a day off to stop.
There are certain things in life: the sun rises in the east, traffic jams on the Ayalon Highway, and every September the Israeli Prime Minister comes to New York to speak in front of a hall full of representatives of countries who cluck their tongues and vote for anything that undermines Israel’s existence.
“What are they trying to sell us in pop culture – and why does every rapper today sound like a spokesperson for the United Nations?”
The interview with Macron could have been a moment in which Israel held up a mirror to Europe. Instead, we got another hour of television that reminded us why the right-wing public in Israel treats everything coming from center-left channels with suspicion.
If there was a Nobel Prize for throwing Israel under the wheels, Europe would already win it every year.
Maybe it’s time we stop being surprised: this is not a bug, it’s a function. As long as Europeans are looking for a cheap sense of morality – we will remain their favorite scapegoat.
As always, after the cameras turn off, countries will return to their wars, their economic crises, and their migrant riots. And us? We will stay here, defend our borders, send our sons into battle, and continue to live in the reality they draw on UN maps as if it were a game of chance.
In ancient times, a man was measured by the number of children he fathered. Later, by the number of miles he fought in the reserves. Today? By how spicy he can put in a pita without collapsing into an ambulance.
Once, cycling was a thing for kids with shorts and bruised knees… Today? It’s a religion.
And its temples are not in Jerusalem, but on dusty trails in the south, in the endless greenery of the Carmel, or on a strange section in the middle of Nes Ziona that suddenly became “a single track of medium-challenging difficulty with technical descents and switchbacks.”
Charlie’s murder is not just a personal tragedy. It’s a wound in society. But the painful truth is that the murder began a long time ago – not with the bullet, but with the slander. For years, the media has been painting him as an enemy. For years, academia has been explaining that he’s dangerous. For years, social media has been trying to remove him from our feeds.
And when you label someone a “threat to democracy” enough times – don’t be surprised if someone takes it a step further.
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