There is no connection between the Palestinian flags waving at the protest at Rabin Square on Saturday, and the question of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. By waving these flags, the remnant of the Israeli Left isn't showing concern for the Palestinian residents of the West Bank, nor is it embracing Arab Israelis. It is finally professing to the fact that it has switched sides. It's not that they no longer love Israel – they are absolutely invested in the country – just from the other direction. Their proposal: Life under a foreign sovereign.
Anyone following the events at Rabin Square and the ensuing excuses encountered an irreconcilable contradiction – Meretz officials warned that annexation will lead to an Arab majority in Israel, and simultaneously expressed contempt for people who are appalled at the use of a flag that symbolizes a murderous organization: Humanity only applies to people under occupation; settlers who bled to death in the name of the flag are irrelevant.
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"The Right has launched a world war because they are afraid of what they saw yesterday [Saturday] in Tel Aviv and from Arab-Israeli partnership," tweeted Eldad Yaniv, who apparently forgot who currently sanctifies the notion of separation between Israel and Palestine. "Those who don't want to see the Palestinian flags, don't want to see the millions of Palestinians who will soon be part of the State of Israel," warned Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz, who apparently only wants to see Palestinian flags but not its subjects. "We aren't a regime of flags,"
Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg trivialized, repudiating those who took offense at the disrespectful spectacle. At that moment, she, too, forgot that her party's reservations about the nation-state law focused on one issue: The need to replace the national anthem.
Indeed, the moment of truth is upon us. A moment that requires verbal comprehension and an iota of common sense. The old national flag supported co-existence. When did this change? When the Left, too, realized that those practicing this vision in the real world, are the settlers. It was then that the left adopted a racist worldview, and now support segregation between us and the Palestinians.
It seems that even if a general consensus is established that Israeli sovereignty is good for the Palestinians, the remnants of the Left will continue insisting on another solution. The right is doing co-existence better than the left, but the idealists in seclusion need a reason to get up in the morning.
The demonstration at Rabin Square wasn't ideologically or romantically motivated. It was a dog and pony show orchestrated by the remaining vestiges of the left. A heterogeneous heap of humanity with a low common denominator: A vacuum for adopting the Palestinian narrative.
Arabs Israelis and the leftist of Tel Aviv chose the PLO flag. Both these sides didn't consult in advance with the residents of the places that could become part of the State of Israel. A short trip to the Bethlehem Governate or a stroll through the villages on the outskirts of Hebron would have revealed an unknown country to them: Arab-Israeli partnership is currently taking shape far from the prying eyes of those who are willing to cross the Green Line just to prostrate themselves over the tomb of Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian masses prefer Israeli democracy over the Palestinian Authority's tyranny.
When even the last leaders of the Labor party crown Benjamin Netanyahu, the ideological crumbs struggle to string together a substantial alternative, and they choose to resign from the Zionist movement.
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