Regev or Tibi? ""The Israeli Arabs are a fifth generation among us," "traitors," "murderers," "living at our expense," and also "we will see them receiving national insurance and health services in their Arab countries.".
These are just some of the harsh expressions frequently directed at the Arab population in the State of Israel, one of whose greatest critics, Miri Regev, rose to the top of the Likud movement in the primaries held there this week.
And indeed, it seems that Regev, Struk and Ariel have something to build on. Figures like Hanin Zoabi, a graduate of the Mavi Marmara flotilla, and the one who refused to call the murderers of the three teenagers "terrorists," raise questions about whether there might be a place in the Knesset for colorful and belligerent personalities like Regev, Piglin, and Ben Ari.
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But a clear survey that has now been published paints a completely different picture.
The poll published in Yedioth Ahronoth shows that almost half of [47%] Israeli Arabs would prefer to see Ahmed Tibi head a united Arab list. Only 2.2 percent of respondents would prefer to see the provocative MK Zoabi head such a list.
What do these results teach? Israeli Arabs, it seems, do not really desire terrorism, hatred, and the destruction of the State of Israel.
They want to live in peace, tranquility, and healthy interaction with the Israeli population, and as a leader they choose a sane, intelligent man who is not drawn to the gratification of passions and Zoabi-style rants.
It can be assumed that quite a few right-wingers are uncomfortable, if not even more so, when reading this assumption, but they too must remember that Ahmed Tibi was the one who stood in the Knesset and protested strongly against Holocaust denial, stirring up the last of the cynics with a speech befitting a survivor of the Auschwitz camp.
Ahmed Tibi, who was also elected to the Israeli Knesset by Iluli, would continue to treat hundreds and thousands of women from the Haredi community at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, as would quite a few other Israeli Arabs.
Where does our hatred and arrogance towards a huge segment of the Israeli population come from? What is the real number of those engaged in terrorist activity in the sector? A tenth of a percent? What priority do hundreds of thousands of Bennett voters who learn in school to hate the Arabs have over the 1.6 million Arabs who believe they live under occupation?
The ridiculous, not to mention infantile, statements about 'the rights we give Arabs in the State of Israel' are appropriate for fascist regimes from the late 19th century.
Israeli Arabs reside legally in the State of Israel and enjoy its rights, just like my father who lives in France and receives health services, National Insurance, despite being a minority Jew, and just like the 6 million Jews living in the United States.
The last penny. My friend, the sociologist Prof. A.A., we visited countless synagogues together, and you asked me, in amazement, not to say admiration, how I knew already upon entering the synagogue that we were visiting an institution belonging to the elders of PAI (Po'alei Agudat Yisrael) - the glorious movement that has become extinct from the Haredi public sphere.
Well, my friend, I will tell you, if your memory serves you correctly, it was during the Mincha prayer of a public fast when the cantor read the Haftarah. During the reading, the verse "And the stranger shall not say," was also read, when six kind elders chanted in a high voice: "The Lord will separate me, the Lord above his people," emphasizing mainly the letter D in the word "the difference.".
The scene repeated itself at the end of the haftarah, in which the elders, perhaps all of them, revealed to the reader that the reading had indeed come to an end. They suddenly called out, to your slight dismay, loudly in the mournful and familiar melody, "I will gather him again to his gatherings.".
Friend of the sociologist, the old man's joining the cantor with demonstrable pleasure is one of the clear signs of the "Peinik," who insists on assisting the public messenger with selected prayer passages.
Why does he do this? Does he believe that the cantor desperately needs the help of the man who is not always accurate in tune? Or is he convinced that the general public should not miss his personal touch, his private interpretation of "Oud Yanubon Beshiva" on Shabbat night?
Or is this a universal phenomenon that is just mistakenly attributed to the lovely elders of the Pai? I don't know, and in any case, when I attended the Mincha prayer on the tenth of Tevet last year at the Hebron Emigrants synagogue in Kiryat Sefer, my personal and beautiful endings - at least to my taste - did not earn the respect of the worshippers sitting nearby. Instead, they shifted uncomfortably in their seats, and one even went so far as to whisper to himself "shh" incessantly.
