Israel no longer exists as a free and rational entity
The hair-splitting over the story of the throwing of sand at Ben-Gvir are divorced from the fact that in Israel neither the law, nor decency and not the state itself exist.
By Moran Sharir • Translated by Sol Salbe
There is no state but there is deliberate chaos
Here are some of the incidents that took place in Israel in the past day and a half: Yesterday morning, three Israeli security guards were murdered in an attack by a Jordanian at the Allenby crossing [AKA King Hussein Bridge]. This calamity lasted about two hours in the headlines because at noon the High Court of Justice ruled that the justice minister must appoint a president to the Supreme Court (a news item that a few years ago would have sounded absolutely weird, but it is not weird — it’s the reality which is weird). The justice minister [Equivalent to a Westminster Attorney-General], for his part, issued a virulent response inciting against the Supreme Court judges.
What else? Yesterday afternoon, it was revealed that an Israeli source leaked to the foreign media fabricated documents supposedly written by Yahya Sinwar in order to influence Israeli public opinion. In other words, psychological terror was used on Israel citizens while “sexing-up” what is supposed to be sacred: intelligence documents pertaining to the enemy’s intentions. Miraculously, the messages in these documents fit exactly the narrative that serves the prime minister of Israel. This piggybacks on top of the famous slip of paper from a “senior Hamas official” displayed by the prime minister in a “Philadelphi lies speech.” Netanyahu assured the nation that the note had been written by a “senior Hamas official.” So he said. In other words, the Israel prime minister is simultaneously exerting military pressure on Hamas and carrying out a psychological attack on his own citizens.
What else happened? The conditions under which the six abductees were held before they were murdered were revealed (meaning: the Israel government had forsaken civilians in hellish conditions); Yagev Buchshtav’s mother said that her son was executed after the IDF got close to him (meaning: military pressure kills hostages); A [Hezbollah] drone hit an apartment building in Nahariya [in northern Israel] (meaning: Israel is weak , there’s no security, no sovereignty, nothing). Oh, and an indictment was also filed against a woman who last Friday (allegedly) threw a mudball (hereinafter: the mudball) at the Minister of National Security on a Tel Aviv beach at a time of war.
Great. This is a summary of fewer than 36 hours in the State of Israel, and there were things I omitted. If you are under the impression that Israel no longer exists as a free, rational and viable entity, you are not imagining things. There is no state, there is deliberate chaos. In this context, we must also address the (alleged) throwing of sand at Itamar Ben-Gvir. As a rule, one shouldn’t throw sand or mud or a broken bottle at an elected official. This much should be clear. Beyond that, any discussion of the subject is baseless and only serves the madness. Itamar Ben-Gvir cannot be regarded as an “elected official” without regard to the fact that he is a racist, criminal, and fascist individual who endangers the State of Israel. It is impossible to conduct intellectual debates as if the Israel Police are not a group of hooligans. You can’t go into a hair-splitting session about legal precedents (someone threw a shoe at [then] Chief Justice Dorit Beinish!!) as if we’re still a state of law and decency. The people on the other side of this debate are not fighting for justice or ideology. They want to annex the Israel to the provinces of insanity. As soon as we start dealing with them, we accept their premise and have lost the argument. And it’s not just an argument, it’s the existence of a state.
