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Mar 29, 2023
we are all losers
Netanyahu is a loser. Netanyahu blinked first. Netanyahu miscalculated, multiple times. Netanyahu is slipping. We beat Netanyahu.
People are saying all sorts of things about Netanyahu and how the Left beat Netanyahu (in this round). That is the story of the past few days.
But that isnt the story.
The Left may have beaten Netanyahu this time, but did they win the battle and lose the war? Was the war ever even winnable when they went to battle with the weapons they used?
Will anyone ever really have control of the State, no matter who is running the country? If the Left should ever take the reigns back, the rightists will protest any significant legislation by threatening to not serve Reserve duty, to encourage pulling money and investment out of Israel, they'll block traffic and bring the masses out. Whoever becomes Prime Minister form the Right and tries to pass significant legislation will meet with more protests from the Left with businesses threatening to leave the country reservists refusing to serve, protests of masses, and all the rest.
How do we move forward from here, after all these lines were crossed? Netanyahu might have lost the battle, but I worry Israel has lost the war. Netanyahu might be the loser right now, but I worry that at the end of the day the tactics used mean we all have lost.
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DeleteMaybe if they wanted to improve their demographics, they could start by stopping the encouragement of sexual deviance among their youth.
I might add, sadly that some who I daven/learn with have made IMHO statments in poor tase like "See? Israel never sould have happened in the first place, Satmar had the right idea, secular Israel is not Eretz Yisroel". These are not NT guys, but Yeshivish and otherwise quite reasnable people. The idea that they see the failure as a positive makes me sick, sad and mad. This lack of Achdus will, and always has been our undoing.
ReplyDeleteI have been hearing things like this plenty here in Israel over the past couple of months, and especially the past few weeks
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DeleteClarification, I am in the USA. As if I or we here have the right to an opinon w/o being on the ground there. Sigh...
ReplyDeletePeople blaming Israel for anti-Semitism is like people blaming the seatbelt for giving them a bruise after a bad car accident.
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ReplyDeleteI wonder if they cleared this Agudah in Israel?
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They like to pretend they're the same organization, but of course they're not.
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