Are We Insane?

Here are the two primary “achievements” of our current Government:

First, pursuit of a highly controversial judicial reform that tore the country apart and that, whatever its merits, was clearly motivated by a desire to counter the potential effects of the Prime Minister’s criminal trial and to keep key draft-dodge-supporting coalition members from bolting the Government.

Second, complete and utter unpreparedness as we suffered the worst tragedy in the country’s history, and conduct of the ensuing war driven every step of the way by – above all other considerations – a manic, at-all-costs craving to retain power.

Surely no government in our history has managed to cause so much death, destruction and other damage in so short a period of time.

Nor is there any question that the Prime Minister who heads this Government, and the Finance Minister whom he must appease in order to keep his position, were the primary architects of the very policy that empowered Hamas and facilitated the atrocities of October 7, even as they turned a blind eye, over many years, to a massive build-up of missiles by a terroristic monster on our northern border and alienated our most critical ally.

Although nothing would thrill me more than a return of the hostages, I cannot support calls for us to make a deal “at any price.” While I am deeply suspicious of anything and everything that Netanyahu says and does, I am not equipped to say whether, for example, holding on to the “Philadelphi Corridor” is so essential to our security that it justifies rejecting such a deal.

But one thing is certain: Netanyahu and his coterie of enablers and cultic sycophants, as nefarious (and as thoroughly incompetent) a political assemblage as we have ever witnessed, surely cannot be relied upon to make any judgments governing our future; not only concerning the hostages, but also regarding Iran, Hezbollah, etc. I believe that a great majority of our people will support decisions with respect to those critical issues, whatever those decisions may be, if made by a government led by someone who can be trusted to put the country’s interests first.

Therefore, for the sake of both our hostages and the future of our country, all of us not on the lunatic fringes, right or left, need to join and take to the streets en masse – day after day after day – until Netanyahu and his Government are toppled.

It has been asserted (although perhaps misattributed to Einstein) that the definition of “insanity” is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Over the last fifteen years we have, with one brief period of exception, repeatedly empowered governments headed by Netanyahu to make the vital decisions regarding our security and future. The results are in. If we sit idly by and leave in power the same band of scoundrels while expecting better results, we must be insane.