Crossing into Gaza |
“Israeli MK caught together with dozens of far-right activists crossing into Gaza.”
In a regular news cycle, pointed out one commentator, a story of an MK breaking the law and endangering troops would be the top story. But in a government where every other member is under investigation and the PM is on trial, we shrug our shoulders. We’re already angry about so many things, it seems more like a mosquito – an immediate annoyance but not one that’s lethal – than the rabid tigers and hungry hawks we hear circling our camp.
Of course, we have not had a regular news cycle in quite a while. These days, we see our newscasters drooling all over themselves as they repeatedly tell us how many troops, planes and long-range missiles are aboard the two US aircraft carriers making their stately way into attack positions. Airlines cut their flights to the region and news pundits talk about the dangers of “miscalculatzia,” while we wonder every evening whether the fireworks will start at 3:00 a.m. or if, possibly, we’ll get one more night of sleep.
And those are exactly the conditions – low-key, controlled hysteria – that benefit the far right. Under cover of a news stories about the next war, the former army attorney general under indictment for lying and the members of the PM’s office holding secret meetings in the middle of the night, they make their moves.
The first time, they are removed from the military “yellow zone” around the inside of Gaza and we are told that legal proceedings against the encroachers has begun. No worries. She and her little group won’t be punished any more than her friends May Golan or David Amsalem will serve time for misuse of funds and accepting bribes.
They have already told the........