Maybe they will say that I am a coward, a compromiser, that I was frightened by the left’s threats of fratricidal war and bloodshed. It is possible and there is something in this, because I remember that only the left in Israel wanted – and almost succeeded – to create a murderous fratricidal war here, and therefore I call for a compromise.
The elephant is the largest land mammal. Vegetarian, excels in his good memory. In the wild, it lives in the savannah and the African forest, and in Southeast Asia. And in captivity – in zoos, and in closed rooms where it is used as a metaphor for something that, despite its size, they try to ignore.
The goat is one of the first mammals that humans domesticated in order to use their milk, meat and skin for material needs, in fact their existence as an object of blame or as a victim (a.k.a. “scapegoat”) – and in their aromatic presence in a closed living space, as a means of proving to everyone that their situation could be even worse , and he will get better if he just removes from his house the goat that the Rebbe recommended to bring in temporarily.
And the scorpion is an invertebrate predator from the arthropod family. Venomous, lives in cracks, under stones and in beautiful folk parables that express his murderous and stupid nature. He is probably not good at swimming, so he is helped by a frog who agrees to move him to the other bank even though she is afraid he will sting her and they will drown together.
And after we have put order in the living world, we will go back to our business.
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The fight for fundamental reforms in the legal system is taking place with increasing intensity. Supporters of the reform see it as an essential necessity to restore the balance that has been broken between the authorities, a counter-revolution to the judicial revolution from Aharon Barak’s seminary and a necessary tool to eliminate the dictatorship of the judiciary and its representative branches. Its opponents see it as a violent governmental coup, the destruction of democracy and an expression of the tyranny of the majority. They claim that any purpose A promotion at the present time is the termination of the Netanyahu trial.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who presented his plan, says that he is determined to pass it as a whole, and in the future to add additional components to it. Its foundations have been presented and discussed extensively in recent decades and were a central issue in the last election campaign.
The opponents’ claim that the public did not know the plan when they voted in the elections because Netanyahu hid his intentions is ridiculed. After all, they themselves repeatedly warned against the destruction of the justice system that Netanyahu and his partners intend to promote if they win the elections – and Netanyahu won despite the warnings.
The supporters of the reform silence voices coming from their camp that propose to compromise on some of the issues (David Bitan: “You can’t make the move with a 10-kilo hammer”), and warn that any such compromise proposal will be registered in the opposition camp as weakness, as a blink, as proof that the protest scares the supporters of the reform – and therefore You must insist on every tip of a correction. The most prominent of them are the members of the band “Kiptzo Leno”.
Even the opponents of the reform (“the governmental revolution” in their words) refuse for the time being to break down the plan into its components and discuss them. Even those who in the past passionately supported some of the principles and even began to promote them in bills (the escalation clause, the splitting of the role of the ombudsman, changes in the committee for the selection of judges, the status of ombudsmen) – prefer to reject the entire package, and those of this group only signal a willingness to discuss the elements substantively The different ones – defined as a coward, or evil.
Merav Michaeli, who is looking for justification for her political existence, stated this week that “it is forbidden to cooperate with the plan to crush the judicial system, neither a little nor roughly”. And Efrat Raiten says “Now you are whining that we stood up with determination to defend our home. Face it. We are raising an army.” And others, who fear that a compromise will be reached and even some of the changes will take place – threaten fratricidal war, bloodshed, political and economic catastrophe and prefer a major conflict.
And in this arena the elephant, the goats and the scorpions are now congregating – and also the frog, which according to the opponents of the plan is the entire public, who might get used to being cooked, and if he doesn’t rise up to rebel, he will perish. The elephant in the room is of course Netanyahu and his laws, and the goats are the elements of the reform plan that are not essential to achieving the main goals.
And the Scorpions are the ones who have gone completely crazy. Those who prefer to incite fratricidal war and bloodshed. Those who will lose the war flags they wave if a compromise is reached. They don’t really want to reach the other bank. They want to sting, even if they die with the frog they are riding on, because they fear that the public frogs will understand that whoever heats the water does not intend to eliminate them by slow cooking but to thaw the stagnation imposed by the legal dictatorship on the country.
And in their determination to win – even at the cost of losing the state – these scorpions doubt-report doubt-preach for attracting investments from Israel because of the “regime changes” (complete nonsense. For every progressive left-wing investor who will be convinced to stop investing in Israel because of the “damage to democracy”, there are ten who will prefer a country in which investment is not depends on innumerable delays and petitions of the inhibitors of the use of natural gas or gas).
They are currently working to persuade investors to withdraw, or threaten to withdraw investments in Israel, in order to bring the government to its knees. This is how they acted in the past to motivate the Obama administration to pressure Israel to establish a Palestinian state. They act in this matter as a local branch of the BDS. And all of course – only for the benefit of the state and in the name of democracy.
Journalist and senior commentator Raviv Drucker is fundamentally opposed to any compromise. He knows that the majority of the people are right-wing and there is no chance that the left will return to power and reverse the amendments of the current government, he estimates that the creators of the reform have no way back and that “a great deal of metaphorical or real blood needs to be shed before there is any way at all to reach something here”.
And those who oppose the compromise, mock its supporters but know that he will not win at the polls, so even if he does not wish for bloodshed – he is sure that without it the reform will not be stopped. It is certainly desirable to him that this vital bloodshed be metaphorical, but even a metaphorical scorpion, using literal venom, can kill. And among those fighting against the “revolutionary revolution” there are also quite a few who attack the country’s president Herzog, who tries to reach a compromise and refuses to join their ranks.
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We must get rid of this zoo. There is no hidden elephant in the room. Netanyahu’s trial is taking place openly and will continue to take place until the end: conviction, acquittal or plea deal. The elephant should be removed from the discussion on reforms, and the room should be freed up for a substantive discussion of the changes, which were all proposed long before Netanyahu’s trial.
You also need to stay away from the scorpions – shout “scorpion” every time one of them starts to preach his venom to a fraternal war sniffer. And also, eliminate the scapegoats that were included in the package of corrections in the legal system. To follow the path outlined by Yuval Albashan, Yuli Tamir, Kobi Oz, Ben-Dror Yamini and their ilk, the supporters of compromise, those whom the Scorpions already mark as enemies, or unfortunately – fools.
I hope that the president of the country will succeed in bridging Levin and animals and what they represent. It would be possible to be content with amending the structure of the committee for the selection of judges and enacting a superseding clause. Because if the Knesset can prevail over the invalidation of laws in the High Court, if the government can represent itself before the Supreme Court even without the attorney general, and if the committee for the selection of judges truly reflects the values of the majority of the people and not the values of the elite elected on its own behalf – that will be enough. It would be possible to waive the other components in the package of amendments. If the opponents of the reform stop treating the majority of the Israeli public as a bunch of dumb frogs who simply do not understand that they are being cooked – perhaps this compromise will be possible.
If the coalition was the one that promoted troops in the announcement of the plan for legal reform and the protesters who gathered – and some of them threatened to form an army – placed troops in front of them, in the decision to disqualify Deri the High Court fired the first shot in the conflict. And yet, perhaps for the protection of the hearts of all the bloodthirsty scorpions – it is possible to prevent a war
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