Commentary: The chants of contempt in the square were aimed at the fanaticism that brought war on Israel, and then prolonged it, on the back of an angry Mizrahi electorate, for the sake of annexation, the war crime of transfer, and settlement in Gaza
The fanatics prolonged the war, in order to achieve their goals (annexation), and to do so exploited the Mizrahi rage, as they rode towards their goal on its enormous political power; the Mizrahi rage stems from the violent Ashkenazi racial attack (cultural) against the Mizrahi since the dawn of the revival, which broke Israel, and which sowed destruction in it, of which fanaticism and war are the fruits of its evils; The following is an extract from an imaginary journalistic memo for the State Investigation Committee that will be established, and for the first time, will also delve into the depths of the Israeli social fracture that drives the circumstances in Israel:
The American envoy Steven Witkoff did not understand the chants of contempt against Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, when he praised the Prime Minister in his speech. In truth, it is possible that a large part of the Israeli public and the Israeli press do not understand the calls either. Witkoff told the scorners that Netanyahu had achievements in the war, because he believed that the scorn was fundamentally intended to undermine Netanyahu's achievements in the war.
But the boos were probably deeper, and they are related to a process whose bad fruits are the war: Since Benjamin Netanyahu gave in to the demands of the zealots in his government for two years, and did not end the war according to the accepted Israeli model established in Israel's wars, according to which the war ended with the defeat of the enemy (a definition that of course allows for lying and stretching it), the public yesterday thanked Donald Trump and his emissaries in the square for bringing the war to an end, and scorned Benjamin Netanyahu for not acting like the leaders who preceded him, and for not bringing the war to an end immediately after the IDF defeated the Nazi-Islamo enemy in Gaza, in January 2024. Here we reported, exclusively in the world, in January 2024, that Hamas is ready to disarm and give up power.
Steven Witkoff smiled in embarrassment, because he probably did not understand how it was possible that Israel had deterred its enemies, and yet the person who leads it receives boos. Witkoff is a friend of Israel and the heart sinks to see him feel so embarrassed, and even more so when the public embraces him warmly. America is trying to understand the countries of the Middle East, and to understand Israel, we need to formulate Israel's social motive: the deep rage of the Mizrahi electorate, over the prolonged and violent racial attack that the Mizrahi public suffered from the stupid Ashkenazi public from the mid-19th century until 1977. This is the Israeli engine. And it is at the foundation of all Israeli public behavior. It is at the foundation of the legal coup. And of the extension of the war. And more. Prof. Yehuda Shenhav explained, to the best of my understanding, that the reason for the Mizrahi anger was that it was denied political recognition; the public existence that was dominated by the Ashkenazi public that founded modern Israeli culture, granted political recognition only to one community, the Ashkenazi.
In November 2022, through January 2023, and through October 7, 2023, Netanyahu's fanatics exploited the eastern rage to impose on Israel the fanatical reality of annexing Judea and Samaria without sufficient discussion and without broad consensus, by tattooing the Israeli democratic regime, and the separation of powers, in events that tore the Israeli public apart, and brought a war on Israel, which the fanatics refused to end, in order to annex Judea and Samaria anyway, to settle in Gaza, and to carry out the war crime of transfer there.
The fanatics refused to end the war even though Hamas was already defeated in January 2024.
This is, in my opinion, the source of the chants of contempt yesterday in the square.
(Mati Cohen)