Beytenu’s Israeli leader, Avigdor Liberman, recently took to TV to say that he would put “the ultra-orthodox and [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to the nearest dump in a wheelbarrow. ”
The backing was immediate and frantic, causing a trance over the idea of a baby.
Liberman’s statement was sad and deserving of all criticism. It is clear that the Haredi and Netanyahu community does not belong to the trash.
But ultra-rectangular Israelis are the last people to have a right to complain about those views. The motivation itself, which they believe deserves to be freely expressed, has long crossed the line of good debate.
In 2009, an article in the ultra-Orthodox newspaper HaTzofer said: “Do IDF soldiers who fell and did not study the Torah have a place in the afterlife? … in fact – the next life only for those who learn and strengthen the Torah. “”
Ten years earlier, Menachem Grilack, one of Israel’s most famous ultra-rectangular journalists, wrote in Haredi BaKahila newspaper that an election rally held by Meretz’s left-wing party was filled with “Fuhrers small. ”
In 2013, United Torah Judaism MK Israel Eichler announced on the Knesset floor that there are “anti-Semitic reforms, worse than our enemies.”
An English election poster showed Liberman with a black yarmulke, with the statement “that only a strong Englishman can prevent Jewish connection.”
Just last month, United Judaism Torah MK Yitzhak Pindros described a female soldier who converts to Judaism during her armed service as a “shiksha” – an infamous term used for non-Jewish women. to explain.
I could keep going, but I would be here all day.
The story here is not a call to names and profanity, but that such statements deviate from the real issue: the complex relationship of the state with the Haredi region.
They have not participated in society; they do not teach mathematics and science in their schools; they do not have to serve in the military and can behave as if the law does not apply to them.
One condition: We do not establish the bill. One shekel of the state budget should not go to those who do not believe in their responsibilities to the state.
It is safe to assume that a large, if not most, part of the ultra-orthodox sector wants to be an active part of Israeli society.
No one has to give up on their customs or beliefs to do so and in fact the workforce already includes thousands of Haredi employees – and that number could go up.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former health minister Yaakov Litzman from United Torah Judaism
(Photo: Amit Shabi)
The real blame lies not only with Haredi’s leadership, but also the politicians who are willing to turn a blind eye again and again just to save their own skin.
Netanyahu could have kept the ultra-Orthodox in his alliance with far fewer discounts, but he wants to offer them as a fire sale.
For he wants to ensure that the Haredi parties continue to support him and himself, thus making the state his own personal bank.
Haredi Israelis are not the enemy, but the state’s relationship with the community must change. One does not have to resort to achieving this, just elect a new government.