Haaretz: Israel’s problem is its rotten society not Benny Gantz
According to Ravit Hecht, a columnist at the Israeli Haaretz newspaper, she strongly criticized the differences inside Israel over the war raging in the Gaza Strip and its repercussions on Israel.
She said Israelis could mock War Mini Cabinet minister Benny Gantz, who saved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he appeared to be on the verge of falling after the attack by the Islamist group Hamas on October 7.
They can also ridicule the lack of political sense among Israel’s leaders, or be suspicious of Gantz’s intention to become prime minister.
Hecht believes that things aren’t, writing in her article that the problem isn’t with Gantz himself, nor with the stupid squabbles among opposition leaders that allowed the ruling Likud bloc to take the lead in the polls despite the chaos.
“When a society, or at least a large part of it, once again chooses – as reflected in the latest polls – a prime minister whose women have been raped and whose children have been abducted, leading them into bloodshed, diplomatic isolation, economic stagnation, a culture of corruption, criminality, ignorance and underdevelopment, when a society or at least a large part of it reaches out to abandon the hostages and their relatives and allows violence against them, anti-them demonstrations that bring extremists back into Netanyahu’s arms,” she said.
But where is the problem, then?
The problem is in Israeli society itself, according to Hecht, who believes that all these manifestations are a pathological condition of a rotten society that is stupidly and madly rushing towards oblivion and destruction.
When anyone who calls themselves Zionists and right-wing to the core endorses a prime minister whose long tenure Israel has lost two areas — while the war he is waging on Gaza achieves none of its goals — it cannot be explained by ideological reasons.
“It’s an incurable disease that you don’t want to see, and it may affect those who don’t want to be cured”.
She concludes that the war may indeed be lost, so it’s better for Israelis to spend their energy on survival plans than to sink into the sea of despair.
