A talented parliamentarian and generally quite a nice person, MK Dov Khenin.
In a status he posted on his Facebook page this morning, and in fact in continuation of all the statuses he has posted since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, Hanin cried out from the depths of his heart:
""...in these terrible days, when one terrible piece of news follows another, and images of killing overwhelm us all, we must raise the opposite voice.".
I was really excited. Only then did I remember that in the Hadash faction there are three other rabbis besides Hanin; Muhammad Baraka, Hanna Swed, and Efo Agbariya. All three, as you might guess, are Arabs.
So even more than with others, with them in particular, I longed terribly to meet that "opposite voice" that their Jewish friend so longs for and swears by. Only this time to meet him from the other side, from the Arab to the Jew. Isn't that desirable?
You know, some kind of statement about the insane reality of life on both sides of the border, some status that sympathizes with the trauma of Israeli children, about bereavement that doesn't discriminate between people. Nothing special.
So I'm sorry to disappoint you. You can continue to yearn until the end of the operation or until the stock of rockets from Gaza runs out, of course. Whichever comes first.
Because on the Facebook pages of Hanin's ideological partners, you won't find anything like "a different voice." Everything continues to be very "straightforward": "Israeli fascist aggression," "Israel's massacre of the Palestinians," "Hamas is not a terrorist organization," "Netanyahu is a war criminal," and all the usual, tiresome nonsense.
And only then, boom, (metaphorically, yes?), did I finally understand exactly what the poet Khenin meant.
""Reverse voice" means that voice you make when someone attacks you, ties you up, holds you with your feet up and your head down, hits you repeatedly, and then demands that you stop shaking and try to free yourself.
In short, not an upside-down voice, but an upside-down world. In short, even more so? Dov Hanin.
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