What Are They Trying to Sell Us as “National Unity”?
There is such a concept in Israel: “unity.”
It is like summer stew – everyone talks about it, no one is really willing to pay the price for it.

There is such a concept in Israel: “unity.”
It is like summer stew – everyone talks about it, no one is really willing to pay the price for it.
Haifa used to be a “demographic mosaic.” Today it’s more like a graffiti wall after a protest: Everyone is sure they know who painted it, no one admits, and only one thing is clear – something has changed here, and it’s not just real estate prices.
Real protest is a powerful force in a democracy, but when every Monday and Thursday your roads are blocked in the name of values written in Arabic – it’s worth asking: “Who is really protesting here – and who is just trying to engineer you?”
There are certain things in the world: the sun rises in the east, the IDF is delayed in a briefing, and the Haaretz editorial team presents Israel to its readers — but only after it has been put through an industrial guilt grinder.
Like gefilte fish: grind, add ironic sauce, and be careful not to make it feel a little too Jewish.
It is a myth, it is a brand, it is the national calling card, it is our cynicism, our audacity, our audacity.
And it is the reason all our enemies wake up at night and make sure their vehicle doesn’t start speaking with an Israeli accent.
How a people who gave the world ethics, justice and monotheism became “problematic” in Intro to Critical Theory.
What is actually left in the Israeli left today – besides the almost obsessive-hysterical-therapeutic desire to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from Balfour, from the Knesset, from history, and from their feed.
There is an old saying: “If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck – it probably works for you.”
And in Israel in recent years, that duck is the radical discourse of the left: high-pitched voice, right-wing tone, flapping wings in hysteria – and in effect destroying everything that resembles a framework, responsibility, or a functioning state.
If education doesn’t teach kids to think – only to memorize — then it isn’t education.
It’s pedagogical makeup with the flavor of “lite.”