Rattling the Cage: Bring it on, National Camp

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Only after the world runs out of patience with Israel will the public here demand change.

By Larry Derfner

As the late, great V.I. Lenin said, the worse things get, the better they get. (Or did Mao say that?)

Anyway, it’s all good. The anti-boycott law, the Nakba law, the loyalty oath(s), the hometown ethnic purity law, the Cuban-missile-crisis reaction to the flotillas – that’s what we want to see. This week, the Knesset’s going to vote to summon left-wing NGOs for public interrogation? Can’t wait.

Keep it up, National Camp. Let your imagination run wild. Let the little Big Brother in you come out and play. Outlaw everything you ever dreamed of outlawing. Don’t be shy; go after thought-crime. Do your worst – please.

This country has long since passed the point where it could be changed from within, when the balance of political forces here would keep the extremists in line – when the Right would be balanced out, more or less, by the Left.

Forget it. Long gone. For the last five years, ever since Israel’s two successful moves of the 21st century – the withdrawal from Lebanon and disengagement from Gaza – were discredited in the public’s mind by the Kassams, the kidnapping of Gilad Schalit and the Second Lebanon War, there’s no balance.

There’s no Right and Left anymore, only a Right and a Further Right, and they’ve taken Israeli politics down a one-way street.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=229652

[shaayecanaan]

1. "the Cuban-missile-crisis reaction to the flotillas"

thats a nice turn of phrase, sums it up well. He does write quite well, I think.

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2. Yeah, that was a good one...

He's got a real way with words, which is why I've taken to reading his blog on a regular basis. Even so, I find some of his logic a bit hard to follow. eg thinking that boycotting the settlements requires him to also boycott Israel itself...

[TomClash]

3. My favorite is . . .

"Let the little Big Brother in you come out and play."