Why you shouldn't back the 'tent city' protesters
In an earlier post, I discussed the 'housing crunch' protesters and gave some thoughts on how those of their demands that are legitimate might be handled. But you should all know that I don't support the protesters. Here's why . Saturday evening we watched Channel 2 news anchor Yonit Levy turn into Marxist activist Rosa Luxemburg and compete with protest organizer Daphni Leef in encouraging and recruiting protesters. Channel 2, like most other media outlets, long ago stopped being a fair observer of events and became an active subverter of the elected government. In the studio sits the haughty crossword compiler Amnon Abramowitz, who lives in a black and white world. The bad guys are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the settlers, religious people, and the Jewish state. The good guys are members of the “white tribe,” for which Abramowitz is a loyal spokesman.Continue reading here.
I am surprised that the public has not yet ransacked the studio building over this constant incitement by Abramowitz and his friends. As with all his broadcasts, in this one too he brandished his voodoo dolls of settlers and religious people. “Netanyahu talks about the periphery, but for 80 days of the year, there is no public transportation,” he said, referring to the closure of public transport on the Sabbath and on religious holidays. “This is the political price the religious people exact from us.” Listen to what he is saying: the Sabbath day is a political price! Perhaps it is for Abramowitz’s “white tribe.” The Sabbath day, like the Jewish state, is a political price. For most of the public, the Sabbath day is a value. This seems to be true even for some of the protesters in Tel Aviv.
Good and innocent protesters, you are just in your struggle, but you are being led by the nose. You have to differentiate between attempts to correct long-standing injustices, and attempts to destroy everything. Israel is not Egypt. The country cannot bear the responsibility for everything in our entire lives. We too have responsibilities. The social justice being discussed here now was tried for years in the former Soviet Union. Every immigrant from the former Soviet Union can attest to its failure.
The government has to deal not with the protest but with those behind it, forces who are cunning and cynical, some who are even experts in social engineering, media spins, and political subversion, who have a vision of a state belonging to all its citizens. Some of them are wealthy individuals, who ironically, despite the protest slogans, feel threatened by Netanyahu's government, which is currently investigating the concentration of financial wealth in the hands of a select few. Negotiations with the tycoons would be scorned by many, but welcomed by the tycoons and many in the media.
Slogans shouted out at the protests were filled with hate against the prime minister. Some called him a bloodthirsty dictator. One sign portrayed Netanyahu as the servant of the tycoons. How many lies can you feed the public? Netanyahu's government is the only one that has stood up to the tycoons: in the mobile phone market and in the revenues the state would get from the new gas reserves discovered off the coast, and now with the committee set up to investigate monopolies.
And don't buy those stories that 90% of Israelis support the protesters. I'm in touch with dozens of (English-speaking) Israeli bloggers. Not one of them supports these protests.
Labels: housing crisis, Israeli economy, Israeli taxes
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:23 PM
6 Comments:
Here's something else:
Leftist Admits: A Secular Israel Is Hidden Objective of Protests
The white tribe of Euroland,
And their TV talker tent summer stand,
Strive for Ben Gurion's Zion shore:
We'll have Hebrew, thieves, and homegrown whores....
Still waiting for my free government cheese.
Ugh... the politics of coveting
Shy Guy - what we need is an online Torah study course that focusses on the economics proposed therein. Not necessarily the 631 in this course, but the ones regarding property, charity, initiative and effort called for from those receiving charity, non-exeption of everyone to give, non-exemption of rendering to Caesar... because when you look at the system outlined, it promotes energy and initiative, not the slackerdom of this leftist ditch dwelling. I'm trying to imagine actually wanting the govt to be in charge of housing. Or I guess maybe they want rent control? If these leftists want purely secular systems, why don't they just go live in the EU? I wonder the same thing in the US. Exactly what they say they want is available in the EU...
Shy Guy, do you know any economists who know the Torah (and don't want marxist collectivism instead) who might be able to do some economics lectures with graphics that they can video record and release as an online class?
I grew up in Israel although now I live in the USA, I'm sad to report that almost all of the people who went to my high-school, as well as other Israelis from the Haifa area seem to pronounce support for this on their facebook accounts.
Speaking of, Israel Hayom had great responses to this on their weekend paper. Lot's of humor and sarcasm in Hebrew regarding how one cannot "finish the month", because he's always on tourism trips abroad.
As an english-speaking, Bibi-supporting, right-wing Israeli blogger I don't know anyone who DOESN'T support the protests. I came into the protest last night on a bus full of others in frum attire from Bnei Brak.
This is not a left vs. right thing, it is not centrists vs. 'settlers' (whatever that means), it is not the students vs. the rest of us, the young vs. the old, the secular vs.the religious. It is all of us, together. We love this country but we can't breathe. We are being crushed.
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