The events of recent days once again illustrate the disconnect between that media, legal, and academic 'bubble', which has been talked about a lot lately, and the majority of the public.
The people trapped inside the 'bubble' see the turbulent wave within the public, hear the intensifying roar, but they are unable to truly understand the processes, because they live in a world of their own.
They are caught in inflammatory statements and unsuccessful phrasing, and they cluck their tongues in shock.
Yes, not everyone is a master of wordplay and skilled at choosing the right words. There are people who also write hateful and abusive language (it's just important to remember that this phenomenon exists in all sectors). It is certainly appropriate to educate people to use clean language, to have a substantive discussion, and to maintain the boundaries of discourse, but it is more important to understand what is behind the erupting volcano.
Don't get confused.
After the car bombing attack earlier this week, a discussion developed about whether there was a connection between the soldiers' response at the scene and the Elor Azaria trial.
Without going into the specific question - to what extent do the soldiers feel confident in opening fire on terrorists - it is absolutely clear that there is a connection between the trial and the attack. The harsh sights of the attack brought us all back to reality at once.
This is what creates the greatest public outrage. For about ten months, the discussion of the soldier's actions is put at the top of the agenda. He is brought to trial in chains. The entire top brass of the IDF is summoned to the witness stand. The headlines of the trial are plastered across the front pages of newspapers day after day. And the ordinary person feels that something has gone completely wrong here.
And in less refined words: that the system simply went off the rails.
It is certainly possible that the soldier disobeyed orders, but let there be no confusion. He did not shoot an innocent man. He shot a terrorist, who had attacked another soldier and stabbed him to death. Putting the soldier on a public trial creates the impression that the despicable terrorist is the poor victim, while the soldier is the criminal. The people are unable to tolerate this distortion.
After all the legal ramblings that overwhelmed us last weekend, the attack on the Commissioner's Palace came and showed us all who the bad guys are in this story and what the real war is that we must fight.
The enemy is not Elor Azaria, but the vile murderers, their supporters who hand out candy, the Palestinian Authority that names squares after the terrorists, and the cameramen who ambush our soldiers in order to discredit them in the world.
Reminder from Sabra and Shatila
This is not the first time that we have distorted reality with our own hands. This was the case in the Sabra and Shatila affair during the First Lebanon War.
They established a state investigation committee, invited the entire top brass of the state and the army to the witness stand, and created the impression that we were massacred in the refugee camps.
Later, when it became clear that the massacre was carried out on the orders of Syria, which wanted to damage Israel's image and deflect criticism against it for its responsibility for the murder of Bashir Gemayel - it was no longer anyone's business.
The public, with its healthy instincts, senses the distortion. The people are clear about who the good guys and the bad guys are in this story, and they demand and demand that the fighters against terror be supported, even if they were wrong. And you, there in the bubble, instead of condemning the people, you should listen to them.
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