Chaos, fear, and noise are the last things this government has left to sell. What looks like a string of failures, patronage appointments, and clashes with “extremists” has become a deliberate mode of operation, designed to undermine trust in the state’s institutions, inflame the public, and damage the country’s democratic character.

If you still have not understood this by now, it is time to face it: what we are seeing around us is not a sequence of accidents. This is not an incompetent government by chance, not merely a collection of miserable ministers who do not know how to govern – though that too is part of it – and not just another day of stupidity, incitement, violence, lies, corrupt appointments, or assaults on state institutions. It has long since ceased to be only failure. It is a method.

Chaos is the last product this government has left to market. After October 7, it can no longer wave the flag of security. With the deficit spiraling and the working and serving public buckling, it cannot offer the economy. After tearing us apart into tribes, camps, traitors, and loyalists, it cannot boast of social repair. When the justice system is suffocating under too many cases and too few judges, it cannot claim a “reform.” It has no Judaism to offer either – only a forceful, hollow, and violent messianism. And certainly not democracy, because everything that balances, supervises, criticizes, and restrains is, in its view, an enemy standing in the way of its attempt to turn Israel into a dictatorship.

That is why this government is selling disorder, fear, suspicion, and relentless noise. A sense of ending, of standing on the brink of civil war. A state in which every day brings something more insane than the day before, until we no longer know what to be shocked by first. The selection of a state comptroller through mafia-like........

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