On Monday, the Knesset Speaker announced that there will be no legislation in the Knesset. This is not the time to argue. Mass prayers are being held in schools.
The Prime Minister appears on television every day and brings out still images from situation reports, as if Churchill were just getting an update on the invasion of Normandy.
A country in turmoil. Phoenixton.
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Three young men were kidnapped. This is a serious, difficult, sad event, but this is not the Yom Kippur War, not even the Twin Towers. Terrorist attacks in which twenty people were killed on the streets of the cities did not bring life to a standstill like this here.
One overarching principle hovers above all the madness. No questions. You can't ask questions of Netanyahu, who speaks every day on television, you can't say a word to the defense minister and the chief of staff who bombard us with propaganda videos, you can't even ask the IDF spokesman who sends camera crews to strange briefings, which contain everything but new information.
We must not ask, for example, whether such a disruption to our routine is not exactly what terrorists want. At least we got one thing out of this crazy week – more people know who Knesset member Yifat Kariv is, who fought bravely against the tyranny of Hanin Zoabi.
In Phoenix, she is a hero.
- From an opinion column in the latest 'Shishi' magazine with Alon Ben David and Tali Moreno.
After the opinion was broadcast, I was told that the media is a significant part of this madness. Whoever made the comment was absolutely right.
Our open airwaves are a terrible phenomenon, a combination of hysteria and fear that the other channel will broadcast and we will lose all our viewers.
I've written about it more than once, I've spoken, I've tried to convince on my channel, but the truth is that I've long since given up on this debate.
The viewing figures are so unequivocal that the expectation that a commercial channel would consciously give up tens of thousands of viewers is an impossible expectation.
depressing.
