If there is one thing that can be said about the events of the last few days, it's that we have finally been exposed to some truths that began to peel away the many layers of propaganda, lies and disinformation that have shaped our public sphere.
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One such lie was the concept of a "true Right" that could become an alternative to the Likud. This is the ideological foundation of some right-wingers, mostly among religious circles, whose mindset is idealistic and abstract.
For them, the world's imperfections is the personal failure of the secular national leadership. Every right-wing leader, including former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had to deal with such criticism from "the moral and ethical Right."
This concept was the springboard for Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked to succeed in the Knesset, now prime minister and interior minister.
After running in the election and failing time and again, the "true Right" finally got its chance. After ousting Netanyahu, it took power and created a center-leftist-Arab coalition through an unprecedented deception of its voters.
The second lie was the concept of a "healing government." We were fed the idea that right-wing governments have made the country sick, and the only way to heal it was to rid ourselves of Netanyahu.
This week we discovered that for Israeli Arabs, mass immigration of Palestinians into Israel is a "civil" issue, as is illegal mass-scale construction on Israeli land. As expected, the current government turned out to be a hybrid creature that even Shaked admits cannot keep Israel safe without support from the Opposition.
Bennett is the first politician in the history of humankind to form a government that, according to his own admission, is incapable of preserving the state's most fundamental interests.
We also found out the true motives of the High Court of Justice. Justice Minister Yair Lapid and many others claimed this week that the Opposition was undermining the state's security by refusing to support the extension of the family reunification law (known also as the Citizenship Law).
As we know, many High Court judges wanted to repeal the law altogether and were only prevented from doing so by a majority of one vote. Turns out, these judges essentially wanted to harm state security.
How many times have Netanyahu and Likud been accused of clinging to power? How many times has the media claimed he put personal interests ahead of those of the public? While in Likud's case, such claims were made in relation to secondary practical issues, the new government this week sacrificed a fundamental value for the sake of premiership.
The most dramatic truth was revealed about journalism. For years, we have been told by mainstream media that the job of the press was to criticize the government, to be sharp and uncompromising. Yet, the last few weeks have revealed a very different kind of journalist, ones that caresses, indulges and obliges politicians.
Calling Yamina MK Edith Silman a heroic victim or fellow party member Abir Kara innocent are only two examples of the media's latest articles that remind us more of Mother Day's greeting card than the watchdog elements of democracy. Israeli journalism has gone to sleep.
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