The Commission TRICK |
THE ENGLISH-ONLY REPUBLIC: HOW TO HOLD A COMMISSION WITHOUT HOLDING YOURSELF
On December 24, 2025, Israel offered the world a Christmas Eve morality play with the props swapped: instead of candles, procedure; instead of hymns, vote counts; instead of confession, committee mechanics. The human reality, however, did not cooperate with the script. In the Knesset plenum, bereaved families stood up, turned their backs, and held photographs of the dead and questions that still have no address. That gesture was the only part of the day that did not feel engineered for an audience.
Then came the vote: 53–48 in favor of a preliminary reading of a bill to establish a politically appointed probe into the October 7 failures, explicitly positioned as an alternative to a state commission of inquiry. The bill now moves to committee, because in Israel accountability is often not denied; it is deferred, proceduralized, and rebranded. Some coalition lawmakers reportedly stayed outside and did not vote, which is a small but telling detail: even when history is on the agenda, people still find ways to be “busy elsewhere.”
Here is the absurdity that matters (and it is not funny, but it is absurd):........