It's not nice to be happy for nothing.
The feeling of joy and relief that fills your heart when a person you don't love is caught in his or her own mischief instinctively raises the recognition that this is a weakness you have fallen into. For, instead of dealing with that person matter-of-factly, or hoping that his or her teachings or behavior will be intelligently neutralized, you rely on the yellow exposure that removed him or her from the equation.
And yet, I find it hard not to feel joy at the allegations that broadcaster Gabi Gazit behaved inappropriately, to put it mildly, towards women.
It's stronger than me. I'm just happy.
why?
Gazit is not the only person I don't like. There are quite a few other people who are not my cup of tea. After all, I have been a journalist and publicist for many years, and I have spoken out against quite a few of them - not that they always cared - and even acted against them.
But Gazit is different. He is different. It is allowed, at least according to my interpretation, to be happy.
Because Gazit was not a 'normal' enemy of the Haredi street. He did not fight intelligently, decently, and logically against the group he disliked so much.
Why? I don't know. Maybe he was too lazy to do his homework, maybe he didn't see it as important, it doesn't matter.
The clear fact, however, is that he decided to fight the Haredim in his own ways.
How? He became a liar and a scoundrel here.
He recently announced that a kollel berech receives a monthly salary from the state of 7,250 shekels, a claim so delusional and unintelligent that if he had only done a little Google search, he could have saved himself the humiliation.
A few years earlier, he had called the Haredim by affectionate epithets: "These leeches, these worms... When will we realize that we need to imprison them in their neighborhoods, disconnect them from the oxygen pipeline of progress, and leave them alone in their misery and hatred?".
Even when, on another broadcast, he tried to argue that there is no need to get married in a rabbinate, he for some reason failed to maintain an intelligent narrative and ended his remarks with the following profound sentence: "They [rabbinates] can jump on me.".
There are others like 'the Haredim are filling the prisons', or 'those who repeat the question of living a terrible and miserable life in the Chabad village and Jerusalem', and other gems that I probably don't remember.
Gabi Gazit, then, is not an enemy of the Haredi public in the sense that his words should be confronted or his claims should be answered. He is simply a liar, a slanderer in the simple sense of the term.
When such an unimpressive character is caught, according to the evidence, behaving inappropriately towards women, I allow myself to rejoice.
I admit.
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