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.
They come in the name of “humanity”, talk about “human dignity”, carry signs saying “Enough with the occupation”, and shout: “Rights for all human beings!”
But you, the human being from the wrong side of the map, dare to ask for some rights too – suddenly you are the public at large.
You can always try again. And again. And again.
Yes, because peace – it turns out – is the only product in the world that you pay for in advance, over and over again, even when it doesn’t arrive.
When you hear the word “occupation,” everyone imagines a machine gun, checkpoints, fences, and an army on every corner.
But it turns out that this occupation? It’s less “occupation” and more “VIP customer service” – with an invoice to the Home Front Command.
More and more people are waking up to the fact that this “darkness” of tradition, borders, family and nation is precisely what has held civilization together. And they are beginning to understand: true progress does not erase the past – it builds on it.
A sober look at the newscast as a marketing department of consciousness
Because if there’s one thing the right has already learned, it’s that the best-selling product on television is the fear of thinking differently