Horse is critically ill
Should current decline continue, Israel would cease to exist
A miser who tried to skimp on his horse gave him less and less to eat everyday, but the horse continued to haul. When the horse finally dropped dead the man wondered why. "I got him used to not eating after all."
For years the Israeli health system has been cutting back. A plan for antibiotic resistant bacteria from four years a go was trashed. The population is growing but not the number of beds. Then came the Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria and patients are running from the hospitals. The Israeli health system's horse is dying.
For years a psychological war has been waged against the reserve army, its power was being diminished, and its ground combat operations underestimated. Overall, the defense budget is being cut back, because ostensibly "peace equals security," and peace is bought in exchange for land. During the last war – this horse also collapsed.
'The flying object'
For years, brainwashers have been trying to convince us that there is no value to land in "an era of rockets" and that the horse – the IDF – is "strong" and has no problem protecting the country, which culminates in one road from Nahariya to Ashkelon with several offshoots.
Then came the Qassam rocket, a somewhat primitive device, "a flying object" of sorts, as it was described by Sharon Advisor Dov Weisglass, and it gave the peace imbeciles a lesson in the importance of land. Now the leaders are waiting in fear for the Winograd Commission's verdict regarding the ground fiasco during the second Lebanon war.
The horse known as Israel has become accustomed to handing over "land" to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinians. Every peace process is financed by the transfer of more and more land. When will the horse die? On the day the "flying objects" are launched from the "Territories" on which Ofra, Beit El and Tel Aviv are now located.
For years we have belittled the public corruption in our midst. Parties and capitalists are growing at the expense of the State's resources. The top echelons are rife with criminal investigations - the president, the prime minister, the finance minister, Knesset members and mayors. The horse will die when corruption ends and the free game of market forces against bribery, fraud, and breach of trust will render tenders, the stock exchange, planning and licensing worthless.
Slandering ourselves to death
For years we have been slandering ourselves to death. Post Zionist professors are assassinating our characters at international universities, in Israeli plays and movies, ruining our image. There is no anti-Semitic defamation that does not draw from an Israeli source. Hizbullah watched the movie "The Beaufort" and learned what breaks the morale of Israeli soldiers; "Shaked Spirit" helped depict us as killers of prisoners of war; "Land of the Settlers" transformed a pioneering and moral population into a herd of wild land expropriators.
We have become accustomed to the daily drip of Qassam rockets, and we have even ceased calling on the government to take action. We have become accustomed to the fact that thousands of employees are not being paid, that parents don't have a sandwich to give their children to take to school, that people die of diseases that have a cure while life-saving funds are being devoured by corruption. We have become accustomed to exchanging a handful of prisoners of war for hundreds of murderers who are destined to murder hundreds more.
We are becoming "accustomed" to mortgaging the future, but it would suffice for one horse from among all these horses to die, and the one-time, wonderful Zionist enterprise we have established here will simply collapse. Those remaining behind will pull out their hair; they will fail to understand what happened, but what will be done will not be undone. They will have to wait another 2,000 years.
Eliyakim Haetzni is a right-wing activist and former Knesset member
