“Israel will clear the rubble from Gaza and pay billions,” ynet reported this morning. It is inconceivable. We will pay for clearing the rubble. Israeli taxpayers will finance the damage Gazans brought upon themselves. Should we also pay for the Hamas pickup trucks that were destroyed? How far will this go? Will we pay salaries to the Nukhba militants? A so-called “full right-wing” government will fund Gazans for the damage caused by terrorism they inflicted on themselves. How pathetic.
The three Bs — Bibi, Ben-Gvir and Bezalel — as a shabby parody of the eternal three Bs: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, only without their genius or talent. What do B.B.B. tell themselves? Why do they think we should pay for this? If there is no one to pay, let it remain as it is — a monument to destruction and a permanent reminder to the Palestinians and everyone else in the region of what happens to those who attack Israel. It is good that in Tulkarem, Qalqilya and other towns and villages in Judea and Samaria they remember the price well. A scenario of an attack on an Israeli community from east or west of the separation barrier is not far-fetched, and they should know that in such a case, their towns will look like Gaza does today.
External enemies are not the greatest danger to the state. Internal decay is. It is always the same: empires fall because they rot from within — Rome in its time and the Soviet Union in ours. All that remains of a superpower is the ornate shell; inside, everything crumbles. A corrupt government, spoils handed out as jobs to incapable flatterers with no backbone, obsessive clinging to power and office at any price, a fire sale of every value that is not one of the three Ks. Brutalization is part of the process — crudeness, gutter language, everything turned up to eleven, no embarrassment, on the contrary: “We are brutes and we are done apologizing for it.” The government and all those who live off it generate this filth to preserve it and themselves. They are the mechanism of decay, the method and the system, the termites gnawing at the ship’s frame. They grow fat as the ship sinks.
In a flock of sheep, there is a lead sheep, the one that walks at the front and the rest follow. And who is leading the march of coarsening in this country? The one who appointed as a senior minister the leader of the “beasts” march against the LGBT community, the one who appointed spineless creatures as ministers and promoted sycophants and thugs. The goal is to cling to the chair, and all means are acceptable. If it means buying off the ultra-Orthodox parties, then there will be a draft evasion law, and who cares about the soldiers. And if the families of the hostages are a nuisance, a small signal against them is enough and an egg is immediately thrown at the father of a hostage outside party headquarters — the mob understands hints. And because he knows exactly what happened, there will be no commission of inquiry, and to hell with the victims and the entire country.
Gilad SharonPhoto: Avigail UziAnd if the trial threatens to push the chair away and bring the guillotine closer, then burn down the club, beg for help from a foreign country and place a horse’s head in the president’s bed in the form of an offer he cannot refuse: give me a pardon, and in return I will agree that you cancel the trial against me. And if you do not? Just remember how it ended in Rome under Nero.