Rabin was assassinated – and we all lost, but whoever tried to turn the assassination into a permanent political currency is the one who really killed the possibility of a healthy discourse.
Thirty years later, maybe it’s time to stop the festival, and start understanding that democracy wasn’t assassinated then – it was simply hijacked since then.
Yes, the destroyers and ruiners are among us — in faculty lounges, film festivals, and NGOs with suspiciously generous grants.
But they won’t win.
Because even if they hate themselves, we love this country enough for both of us.
“Excuse me, I was just asking” – this is how most moments that don’t end well in Israel begin.
This is one of the most brilliant passive-aggressive brilliances of Israeli culture: a trial that begins with light-hearted politeness, and ends with legal drama, public use or a viral column on Facebook.
If New York really does elect Zohran Mammadani, it will be definitive proof that the city that has been through 9/11, Trump, and Blattner in Times Square – has failed to survive progressivism.
But hey, at least they will have a city free of guilt: no struggle, no crime, no homeless people, no progressive snobbery, no anti-Semitism, no Muslim immigrants… but guilt
After we got to know the parties, the politicians, the journalists, and the public – it’s time to talk about the most Israeli phenomenon after hummus and traffic jams on Highway 1: political cyclicality. That eternal time loop in which everything changes – in order to stay exactly the same.
כשחושבים על זה, אין כלי שמסמל טוב יותר את הדינמיקה הישראלית־פלסטינאצית מאשר דחפורי ה־D9: חפירה מתמדת במציאות, עם הרבה רעש, אבק וקצת הומור שחור
When the education system insists on teaching “free thinking” – but only one kind
The public is the sovereign, the king, the final arbiter – and also the one who will regret it in three months.
He is cynical but naive, nervous but indifferent, and most importantly – he is never at fault.
The left has learned to exploit the channels of the giving audience: morning programs with a progressive angle, talk shows featuring commentators with ideological positions, and airtime that is tailored to high exploitation of viewers who identify with it. The result: the “leftist message” is not only heard—it is replicated within the branches of discourse (cinema, culture, education) and enters living rooms as something that is naturally “free from criticism.” Thus, a media is created that defines what is considered normal—and this is a weapon of consciousness in its political sense.
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