It’s not simply the virus that’s a danger: Israeli society is starting to fracture under the stress.
Israelis demonstration versus Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on October 03, 2020.
( image credit: MIRIAM ALSTER/FLASH90)
It is time to rethink the way we’re trying to eliminate the coronavirus.
When the pandemic started in March, the facility believed our primary focus needs to be on health. Medical professionals spoke day-to-day about the need to social distance, and it was a typical belief that if we just closed down the country for a while, the infection would disappear.
However soon after, organizations began to collapse like dominoes, and individuals began to connect the virus to the financial blow the nation was now suffering. By late June, protesters took to the streets and required that the government find options for those who had lost their earnings, and for some, their life tasks, due to the restrictions.
Ever Since, the discourse has focused just on the balance in between the 2: tightening constraints and its financial impact vs relieving constraints and opening the economy.
But many people– including our leaders– have forgotten about another component that is simply as essential as our health and economy– the material of our society.
The most essential pillar for the limitations to work is compliance, however this needs social factor to consider.
Regrettably, not only do our leaders not promote that factor to consider, they foster the exact reverse, supporting hate between the different sectors.
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An ideal example has been the tug-of-war between presentations and prayers, with Likud members repeating the fake argument that the 2 are the same, in spite of no proof of infections at demonstrations and tons of evidence of infections at synagogues.
Their primary argument is: “If they can [protest], why can’t we [pray]?” This idea resulted in the disaster we see today in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, where thousands have actually gone to vacation tisch events, funerals and other day-to-day gatherings.
It also caused violence against anti-government protesters, who were identified by some of the union members as the people to blame for the infection’s spread. Over the weekend, there was a spike in violence, which included a car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv and a female was punched in the face.
These days, it seems, society is fractured and divided more than ever. There is no trust, and various groups in society are looking to blame the other. No one takes obligation; nobody appreciates the other.
This department is bred at the top. Already in August, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the protesters are “spreading illness,” which the presentations are “coronavirus incubators.” He also claimed that there are no records of the illness in these demonstrations due to the fact that individuals who attend them leave their phones in the house, a claim that has regularly been shown false.
And this is the bigger issue.
The prime minister’s mind is focused only on something: his trial. And nowadays, he is concentrated on silencing the tens of thousands of individuals who are exercising their freedom of speech to demonstration against him, even if the rate is losing the battle versus COVID-19
Last Thursday, a Knesset committee discussed a suggestion by MK Ayelet Shaked that would allow opening small businesses during the lockdown. When the committee’s legal advisors made it clear that to do so would also allow demonstrations, the coalition shot down the effort.
On Friday, Blue and White’s Asaf Zamir– who beinged in the cabinet’s most sensitive meetings and witnessed the decision-making process– resigned from his post as tourism minister. “The coronavirus crisis is at best a secondary concern for the prime minister,” Zamir wrote in his resignation letter. “The personal and legal considerations are what interests Netanyahu, and this has been clear by every action he has actually taken.”
This is a by-product of the method our leaders act, and the example they set for the country. The most current case was Likud Minister Gila Gamliel, who not only spent Yom Kippur with her household far from house, but supposedly tricked the Health Ministry about where she had actually contracted the infection.
However what can we get out of the pawns when the king sets the tone? The prime minister developed a situation in which no criticism stands, and if you do criticize him– for his management of the crisis or his supposed corruption– you are instantly declared a traitor to the state.
So how can we fix our fractured society, and win the battle, when our leadership is so broken?
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