The Limits of Democracy / The Value of Protests

In column 300 (the wonderful one, it should be noted), you presented the illusory reality in which we live here in this country, a corrupt legal system and a system that enacts personal laws tailored to the coalition’s needs, all the basic laws are nothing more than an unsuccessful joke at best.
What we are left with is the people, who understand the basic and human element of helping each other. Here and there there are hugs, but in the end, sane intuition prevails over all the madness that passes with time.
Recently, we have witnessed a real catastrophe, and it seems that even the last branch is about to be cut off, and a man of integrity will do what he sees fit.
You have often taken care to explain that there is a difference between expressing an opinion, however delusional, and giving instructions to the public who listen to your lessons.
I think it would be a lie to say that a politician who heads a party with a significant number of seats is not responsible for his words and instructions, no less so than a rabbi who heads a community.
I will give a few examples:I will give a few examples:
A few weeks ago, it was Lieberman who called on the public to do whatever they wanted.
At the beginning of the crisis, it was mainly the leaders of the left who claimed that Bibi was pressuring for political purposes and that dictatorial orders should not be obeyed (Lapid Bogi, ibid., ibid.).
Yesterday it was MK Ofer Shelah, who called on protesters not to pay the fines they received, and called for increasing the protests in violation of the law.
And he justified this by saying that the legal system would collapse against thousands of protesters. And he promised to fight for it.
Eli Avidar was heard on a recording with one of the organizers of the demonstrations, going out in violation of the law, and pledging to launch a head start in favor of the violators of the law, which is itself illegal.
Meretz, of course, published an anti-Semitic campaign in which they blame the Haredi scholars for the blood of the victims of the Corona virus.
By the way, maybe we could say that they are protesting the damage to the economy. So I will bring an interesting statistic published by Adam Gold, “By the way, in the midst of the stupidity and as part of the systematic campaign to normalize the violation of the law, and in an interview with a business owner who warns that he will whistleblower the law, Noga Nir Neeman comes in and explains that because of the Corona virus, “1,000 businesses have already closed in the first half of this year.”
And what are the facts?
Because of the state’s support in the first half of the year, 33% fewer businesses closed compared to last year (by the way, 9,384 closed in total, but 14,100 closed last year)
Now, you can be for and against a lockdown and various restrictions. You know what, in a country with freedom of expression, maybe you can even preach anarchy and civil disobedience from a comfortable armchair in the middle of a pandemic. Let’s say. But the ignorance, superficiality, populism, flattening the discussion to the level of a dictaphone in the mainstream media – there is no forgiveness for that. Agents of ignorance for everything. (By the way, this is from the Ministry of Finance data that Merav Arlozorov brought, when the clear conclusion from the data is that in fact there are many businesses that in a normal year would have already closed their doors, and precisely in the year of the Corona crisis continue to exist thanks to the exceptional grants that the state has given to businesses. In other words, absurdly, the grants artificially preserve quite a few businesses that were problematic even before Corona. This certainly does not mean that there are no businesses, fields and industries that were hit very hard by Corona, but life is complex, friends. Life is complex)”
And more and more…
And I ask:
A. Is democracy a matter of killing and not passing, or as a democratic act that rejects all other acts of non-action?
on. How is Bibi different, even if we say he broke the law, from those who call for its violation in practice, with devastating consequences in the social, health, and economic sense?
(After all, fraud is the domain of every politician, including the Knesset and Amir Peretz, who entered Netanyahu’s government. Bribery, of course, is what actually brought them into the holy of holies. Whether it’s Gantz with his dream of becoming prime minister or any other cretin and his dreams, breach of trust, of course, does not need to be expanded beyond the violation of every clause in the coalition contract by each party and, of course, the violation of public trust.)
third. If we assume that there is no direct harm to the protests in terms of the coronavirus, but the harm to governance and the rule of law is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt due to Israeli voyeurism in which everyone asks why he is right and I am wrong, isn’t that a sufficient reason to avoid destroying the country in a big way, let’s say?
D. What about the fact that almost half a million citizens have become freeloaders and thieves? I work in the field of accounting, the reports are as usual, except that all the workers are on unpaid leave, people are simply working illegally. In the first wave, there were no traffic jams because people really didn’t work. In the second wave, the numbers of the unemployed increased and the traffic jams remained… Miri Regev published that 400,000 more people travel on the public transport system every day than during the first lockdown, and a comprehensive scholarship of about 430 shekels per month per student is driving people crazy, and experts are making sure to explain that it will collapse our economy.
E. And finally, hasn’t it been proven that at the boiling point, everyone and their values ​​or motives are indifferent and there is no judge?! So why does the criticism rise with full pathos when it comes to the Haredim, and when it comes to others, there is deathly silence, and no follow-up column to Column 300 on the fake democracy we live in?!
(And I haven’t even addressed the discriminatory attitude between left-wing demonstrations and right-wing demonstrations, for example about the theft of their homes and giving them to murderers, or for example about the ultra-Orthodox demonstrations, all the stun grenades the cavalry skunks have disappeared as if they were nothing, a small injury to Huldai’s hand is making headlines, we’ve gone crazy!!!).