The choices are not about Yes-Bibi or non-Bibi, but Yes-Ben Gvir or No-Ben Gvir. And by and large, it is the biblical bloc versus the democratic-liberal bloc. Benjamin Netanyahu is the man who divides, literally, the state and only his partners. After the formation of the current government, Mickey Zohar scattered fluffy lips and apologized for the rude power he displayed. Less than five minutes have passed since the announcement of the dissolution of the Knesset and the man has returned to being arraigned in the studio, which makes it clear that the situation necessitates (again) dealing with verbal violence.
So before you get swept up in the election turmoil, hear a story and an explanation of why governments are falling apart. After World War II, colonial France continued to control parts of Vietnam. During eight years of bloody war in the Vietnamese liberation movement, the French buried about 40,000 soldiers. their. And a little less than a million on the other side. In 1954 Vietnam gained independence after retreating in disgrace.
In those years, France also fought in the Algerian independence movement. A particularly violent occupation regime was supposed to strengthen the interests of the French settlers, who took over the lands and treasures of Algeria. My neighbor, Roger, a friend of Ein Shemer, was a soldier in the French Foreign Legion who fought there.
The stories he occasionally releases about the “operational” partnership between the French settlers and the French army require a particularly strong stomach. The menu was, as is customary in our places, the incarceration of the leaderships of the independence movement (terrorism), assassinations, assassinations and assassinations in and outside Algeria (terrorism), “protection” of settlers that became collective punishments, restrictions on movement through countless barriers, mass deportations and infrastructure destruction. Nothing unfamiliar to Israelis from home.
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During some ten years of wars of occupation in Vietnam and Algeria, 20 governments have been replaced in France, disintegrating one after another. Governance was just a parable. Economic crises haunted each other, and the internal rift between right and left reached the brink of a military revolt (putsch) and a civil rift. By the way, Mapai’s Israel and Shimon Peres supported the violent and settler right wing of France.
In 1958, a clumsy and clumsy type wounded General Charles de Gaulle, who led France’s war of independence in World War II. De Gaulle promised to leave Algeria French for the settlers and unite the nation. He was elected by a huge majority and immediately began the steps at the end of which the French army and settlers returned from Algeria to France.
Government chaos
The reason why we had to hear French history is the connection between the occupation of another people and the social deterioration and administrative chaos of the occupier. Only after all the settlements had been evacuated and Algeria gained its independence (1962), did France return to functioning as a state governed by the rule of law of all its citizens.
The question of course is, when with us. The answer: when the State of Israel returns to the path where it will return to being part of the family of peoples that have a democratic and liberal government. We are surrounded by countries that have lost their governance as well as their economic and functional capabilities due to civil wars that have spiraled out of control. Syria, Lebanon, Libya, even our great friend USA has reached a point where the political civil war that has swept the streets (and the onslaught of the Capitol) is now eliminating the Biden administration’s ability to function on economic and value issues such as arms sales restrictions.
The United States has an internal capacity to overcome the madness of the systems created by Trump & Co. In Israel, I fear that the democratic vaccine has lost its validity in the face of the biblical epidemic.
During the war in Algeria, a putsch was carried out inside the Algerian army in the territories against the French General Staff. We still do not have an independent IDF operation in the territories, while refusing an order to the General Staff. For years and under the radar, and before we could shout “religion” (!) It turns out that there are two armies here – the General Staff army and the dome army. Entire units, and here and there command staff and soldiers wearing kippahs, live in a separate universe from units that are secular and lead their own ideological and political lifestyles. The General Staff’s army is secular by definition and operates in accordance with government and legal guidelines. The Dome Army has an operating code that ignores the General Staff’s democratic mandate.
When brigades and soldiers in the territories fight alongside the settlers for Palestinian civilians, there is zero governance of the General Staff in the army and zero governance of the government in civilian life. What happened in Lod and the cities involved in the days of the Wall Guard was a civil war, waged by the settlers and their rabbis, as part of their plan to “Judaize” the entire country “to the end”.
When the Israeli police ignore a convoy of buses that came from the territories to “protect” the residents of Lod, another aspect of the covert civil war, which is still going on, is revealed in the fifth election campaign. Not militias on the streets yet, but who needs militias when the IDF and police have a selection according to a standard that emerges from disappearing tunnels in government offices.
This is a civil war, not a civil war. Anyone who sees Arabs as second-class citizens is not my brother. Without going into unnecessary debate (at this time) about democracy in Arab society, then the struggle for a democratic and liberal state is common to Jews and Arabs. For the Arabs, the commitment to fight for their identity is more natural, as they are more affected by the current situation. Kibbutz logic says it is unlikely that a civil war could break out in a democracy. Unless the hoops of democracy are loosening and the more violent side is taking advantage of this in favor of its agenda, which is roughly the current situation. The State of Israel today is less and less a democracy and more and more an arena of cynical politicians and “civilian” rioting gangs, from the hill boys in Samaria to the protection organizations in the north.
There are still no two-way shootings between security forces and civilians, except for negligible incidents of brat hills and harassment of criminal organizations by law enforcement officials. These incidents allow the true predators of democracy to condemn them as a “handful” and emerge stately. Meanwhile, signs of forceful resistance on the left are bubbling up in the area. A legal order prohibits settlers from entering the Chumash. About a month ago, a democratic Jewish left-wing force was organized to “prevent” them from entering the area. The IDF assisted the settlers and stopped the force on the left.
Apparently, all credit to the IDF for preventing a kind of civil war. In fact, the IDF provided the outlaws with a good reason to understand that they are the strong side of this brawl and that they have a license to continue their exploits.
Conclusion: There is currently no single national identity entity called the State of Israel. There is a state framework, which is supposed to provide its citizens with services and there are signs of unity like waving flags and barbecues. The actual rift is pretty terminal, and the election struggle between right and left is all over the box office. Demonstrations of power, including violence, are part of the essence of the right. The question is whether the left has a physical force capable of confronting the right for control of public space.
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