Israel's Challenges

Introduction

What are Israel’s elected leaders really dealing with today? Economic leadership,

the media, and a steady flow of gossip? With Sarah Netanyahu

, Bar Rafaeli

, and

the salary benefits of the nation’s elected? To them, the how and why of the closure

of a restaurant owned by a renowned restaurateur and television personality

is certainly no less important. And, at the same time they are debating Amos

Shoken’s

odd and hysterical “Peace Conference”, to spay or not to spay Tel Aviv’s

cat population, letting the IDF be victorious, and “God willing”, everything will

turn out exactlywe wanted, just as it has for the last 3,200 years. But most important

is to deal with Oren Hazan

, a bizarre and revolting phenomenon, that defines

more than anything who our elected officials, the leaders who are supposed to

provide a solution for what I will present in the coming pages, really are.

In spite of these grave issues, and while the house is still in flames, nobody

mentions the fact that

Israel is not a western country

, and this is because it lies

in the Middle East. This is not a hypothetical statement, as a host of decisions

that need to be made are derived from it, such as political initiative and right

and wrong. However, the nation’s leaders (the Bibis, the Buzys, the Lapids, the

Bennets, and the Ivets) think we are still a western country, but look at what they

are dealing with.

We are

not

another western country!

So what is allowed and forbidden in London, in Oslo or New York is not relevant

for us, and what happens there just cannot go on in the “State of Tel Aviv”; the

Tel Aviv that is depleting the remaining, suffering and abandoned parts of the

country from its Jews. Paris and Brussels are beginning to understand that

complacency and denial extract a heavy price. Europe in its entirety understands

that democracy, liberalism etc., are polite words until extreme Islamic terror

1 The Prime Minister's wife.

2 A prominent Israeli model currently being investigated for tax evasion.

3 The publicist of

Ha’aretz

, a left-wing Israeli newspaper.

4 A Likud Knesset member who has been insulting and unprofessional antics led to a

month-long suspension from parliamentary activities.