Gideon Levy in a moving column: “The left is a dictatorial and aggressive camp”

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Gideon Levy (Photo by Moshe Shai Flash 90)

Gideon Levy published a column in time this morning (Sunday) in which he attacks the left-wing bloc in Israel. This is because of his previous column in which he praised former prime minister and current opposition chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, the same column that provoked much criticism against Levy.

Levy opened the column and wrote that: “There is no unbelievable rage provoked by the article about the meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, to prove what has long been claimed: The Israeli left is sick. Very sick. The hatred for Netanyahu crossed his mind. Comparisons to the meeting with Adolf Hitler Immediately others were content with Stalin, or at least the CEO of Exxon. Personal insults, including from friends, can be forgiven. But it is impossible not to ask: where does this rage come from, what are its sources and most importantly, what does it cover? Something is hidden here, without which it is impossible to understand the intensity of these emotions. No sympathetic article about another Israeli politician, living or dead, would have provoked such a dance of hatred. It is doubtful if there was one in the past, other than perhaps a meeting with Ariel Sharon the day after the massacre in Sabra and Shatila, and Sharon was forgiven for everything as well.

People who have been silent about apartheid for years, yawn at the crimes of the occupation and look away from them; Voters have a future, Labor and Meretz, they say they are against the occupation, they worship the IDF, they are arrogant about the Palestinians and think they are enlightened – and yet their consciences are tormented by their helplessness and the ideological emptiness in which they find themselves. They know that the center-left governments have never done what they had to do to enable the Palestinians to exercise their rights. their”.

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Levy teased and claimed that the former prime minister gave the camp an ideology: “Netanyahu fell to them a ripe village, a gift from heaven. 12 years of continuous pleasure. A gift that never ceases to give. Suddenly they have ideology and content in their lives, suddenly they manage to differentiate themselves from the right, suddenly they are political warriors Made fearless, Che Guevara one by one. ‘Just not Bibi’ became not only a war cry and a unifying slogan, it became the defining political identity it lost.

This new toy of the left must not be touched. You can not even get close. If this toy is taken from him, he will once again sink into loss of way, emptiness and boredom, mumble slanderous slogans and sing songs about peace and tomorrow, without anyone being able to understand how he is different from the ignorant and cruel right. Therefore, woe to anyone who tries to cast doubt on the degree of hatred that Netanyahu deserves, the hatred that is now the only reason for the left to exist. Even when Netanyahu is no longer prime minister, the left has no other toy. The government of change is the convincing proof of this: what has really changed? Almost nothing. Certainly not on the most crucial issue, from which the government is fleeing as if from fire. “

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Finally, he concluded: “Netanyahu was what he was. On the most important and fateful issue, he was no worse than his predecessors or successors. Nor was he better than them. It drives the left crazy. Anyone who tries to question Netanyahu’s monstrosity is breaking lines and sentenced. A more complex character than it seems, is a betrayal. To say that he also has positive sides is a troll. Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid or Gideon Saar, they would not provoke any storm. Bnei Gantz, by the way, shed much more blood than Netanyahu and he is also proud of it. But he is allowed to write unlimited favors. Only one is forbidden, and the ban is absolute.

A dictatorial camp, no less tolerant and aggressive than the right-wing camp, which in its actions supports the continuation of the occupation no less than the right, is appalled by anyone who dares to touch the bird of his soul, hatred for Netanyahu. After all, if Netanyahu is not the devil, what will he have left? ”

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