This post is a
summary of the series of posts in which I described in details the process that the
Jewish society in Israel go through and that brought to the aggressive - national -
religious agenda taking over and to the destruction of the left wing in the
Israeli politics. This process of radicalization would, I argue, stop by a disaster
only. There is no chance that the Israeli society itself would recover and stop
it. It will end only when Israel will cease to exist as the "Jewish
State".
The previous post
described a scenario of economic collapse. The one before described a scenario
of military breakdown and this post describes the scenario of social disintegration.
The adherence of
the Israeli Jewry to its "Jewish" identity - in preference to construction
of "Israeli" identity led, as I explained earlier, to return to the
Diaspora culture of being a hated minority battling by all means for its
existence. All laws and rules were broken and boundaries have been overruled.
Basic concepts that are essential to building a healthy state and a healthy
society were ignored: obedience to the law, compliance to the common Western
society conventions, accountability and solidarity. Finally, the shame is lost and
we even create our own reality – detached from the real one.
Living in a society
without laws and rules resemble the life in a crime organization. The strong and
aggressive take over and the rest have to accept their authority and try not to
stand out and upset them. In such a society the wrong people come to power – shameless,
immoral and aggressive people surrounded by flatterers and swindlers.
This picture
best explains the Jewish society in Israel on all its weaknesses and
strangeness.
Many talented
and creative people on the one hand, but conformists and extremely opaque with
regard to the community, state and government affairs, on the other hand. Sophisticated
in science and technology, but buying devoutly every cliché that the
commentators selling them in the press and TV. Brave in the army, but
submissive invertebrates in civil life. Just a small example is the tendency of
non - rational electing repeatedly, in every election, the "center" parties
– Dash, The Center, Tsomet, Shinuy, Kadima, Yesh-Atid. Although already known, that
these parties will not survive more than one or two elections, this choice
exempts the voters from the need to identify themselves and express an opinion,
which they might later have to explain.
Most of the
public, I want to believe, are still decent and well-meaning. They are not content
with the conduct of the people in power and their uninhibited and blatant
behavior. There is a conflict between the tendency for fairness and honesty and
the need to justify the state's aggressive conduct. This conflict, with no way to
be solved, remains closed in the heart of every decent citizen. If you say it loud,
you'll be condemned as non-patriot and leftist "who has forgotten what it
means to be Jewish". Everyone finds
his own ways to deal with this conflict. A small section that has been dubbed as
Radical Left, protests openly and is emitted outside the fence - off the tribe's
circle. Most people try to ignore reality and live in virtual reality, provided
by the major media channels. If this is cruelty towards the Palestinians or discrimination
of the Israeli Arabs, security reasons are automatically brought up. If denunciation
is expressed by intellectuals all over the world, they're called "Anti-Semitic". If millions of Shekels are transferred to the
Yeshiva's, it is Jewish heritage preservation, and so on.
All these
attempts of honest citizens to quiet their conscience still leave a bad taste
in the mouth. They leave bitterness, confusion and helplessness.
Bitterness and
resentment in the relations between people - is perhaps the most obvious identifying
mark of the Jewish society life in Israel. Most of the public, who did not live
their life in a Western country (and I'm not talking about a short, superficial
visit) do not know that this is not the default – it is not how people live in
other parts of the world. The basic relationship between people is of
solidarity and desire to help.
Firmly
established bitterness is a mark of crumbled society. A society that lost the
solidarity and the will to live together. This bitterness is a fertile ground
for incitement and sowing separation. Israeli politicians exploit it to the
full.
No other
society, I think, in the Western world can be more easily incited than the
Israeli Jews society. A society that racism, in all its forms, so deeply
ingrained into its culture. Even in France, ridden by high unemployment rates and
immigration issues, Le Pen's party managed to collect about 10%. In Israel most
votes in the Knesset elections are voted out of incitement. People who
vote not for a better alternative, but to fuck other sections of the population.
Let's start with Shas, that its ideology is incitement against the secular
section. Other religious parties basically join, even if they are less harsh.
Similarly Israel Beiteinu party, its only ideology is incitement against Arabs.
Also the Likud party, Begin brought it to power by inciting the Sephardim against
the Ashkenazim and even now it is based on a large community of Sephardim, voting
unanimously to the party, which acts more than others against the weak population
and in favor of the rich. All that counts is to stick a finger to the
Ashkenazim face. The Ashkenazim, on their part, are careful to vote to someone "of
their own".
Israeli
elections, which are supposedly free, cannot, therefore, be considered
democratic elections. They are not conducted on the agenda of the state
administration and policy, but on who fucks who. Israelis see Israel as a
democratic state and present it to the world as such, but nothing about Israel makes
it worthy of that title. This is just another step in the imaginary reality, we
have built here. There is no democratic mindset on the public agenda and
certainly not on the government agenda, most of which boast a declared racist
ideology. Over the years, all the mechanisms, which make a country democratic were
suppressed and overridden. The State of Israel is not a democracy long ago.
Researcher Professor Yiftachel tried to characterize when a country ceases to
be democratic He called Israel "Ethnocracy."
One of the
most obvious signs for lack of any democratic conception, is that the government
and the leaders completely disregard the public's desires. The social protests
was supported last year by more than eighty percent of the public, but were ignored
by the government. In the past an attempt was made to ease the burden on the common
citizens before the elections. Now they do not bother to do even that.
Recently, the Prime Minister raised taxes, even though the election approaching
and he even scolded the citizens: "There are no free lunches". The
Prime Minister, who is supposed to serve the citizens, complains about them bringing
up with their claims and he now punishes them for it.
It is easy to
understand the explosive potential inherent in such a society, a depressed and
full of resentment, riding on the waves of hatred. When the hatred and separating
between the sections will surpass the unifying elements, a civil war will break
out here soon, in one way or another and the country will split apart.
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