Chef Meir Adoni, who last Friday published a post on his Instagram page that caused a stir, following his words that he took part in "the left's great deception" until the outbreak of the war - addressed last night (Sunday) the harsh reactions he received to his disillusionment post.
He wrote on his Instagram account: "Wow, how many responses I've received in the last two days from people who until a moment ago I belonged to. Those who always despised such responses as long as they supposedly came from the other side of the fence. No offense, but despise everything that the extreme left represents or transmits! I feel cheated to the depths of my soul that I followed hollow slogans for peace!""
He later spoke about the active part he had taken in the past in attempts to convince people that Israel was guilty of the terrorism directed against it: "I led and sided with campaigns in favor of peace, that there is a Palestinian people who want peace. How much I was part of the delusion that we were guilty! Always guilty! How easy it was to blame the right and say that everything was because of them! I knew how to explain every attack by saying, 'It's us, we're to blame.' They are an occupied people, a poor people, they are generally peace-loving, a people of love and brotherhood. It's our fault, it's all because of us, the Jews. The bloodthirsty ones who only destroy and destroy.
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""Oh, how pathetic. How pathetic I was, living in the enlightened state of Tel Aviv and telling myself stories! It was comfortable, I was part of them. Successful restaurants, wrapped in all the self-love there is and in those who live in Tel Aviv, a subscriber to the newspaper 'Haaretz', which repeatedly brings up the activities of an organization in 'Tselem' that is full of hatred for Israel and the Israel Defense Forces (no less than the messiahs in Mea Shearim) I ask for forgiveness, truly.".
""When I woke up to the Holocaust we went through, I realized that I was part of a cult that lived in a movie! Maybe they took too many drugs, maybe because life in Tel Aviv is beautiful and comfortable and everything sanctifies it. Maybe because being leftist is cool and right (especially as a chef who lives and works in the world), maybe because being gay and lesbian means you have to believe in the stupidity of the left (but in Gaza the community would have been burned alive). How lucky that this time there was tangible, monstrous, unimaginable documentation, that there was no choice, but even the greats of the left, who are a tiny extreme, left out of love for Palestine, not out of love for Israel, had a little hard time with it! After all, a girl was raped, a baby roasted in an oven, an old man who was slaughtered, a soldier beheaded, and other horrors that were a little uncomfortable for them too!
He signed the post in a more conciliatory tone: "So now, my dear brothers and sisters, who you may not believe, but I love you despite everything, true love. Let's understand that there are monsters in front of us. I know it's hard to accept, but these are monsters and any other title of endearment would do them a favor! Let's face the grim reality and make sure to uproot the metastases of the cancer of radical Islam from every part of our region. The people of Israel are alive.".
