Anyone familiar with the Left's vocabulary should know that it often dubs opponents "lunatics" or "psychopaths." Seasoned leftists will sometimes use the words "mad dog."
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Therefore, having watched former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert calling his successor Benjamin Netanyahu and his family members "mentally ill," it is obvious that he has found his place among Israel's elites. He has resurfaced in the media only to attack Netanyahu, otherwise, he would not have been let back in. His statement certainly fits in with the overt death threats the Netanyahus have been receiving and is part of the Left's latest slander campaign.
Some on the Left call the settlers "subhuman" (MK Yair Golan), or describe Jerusalem as a city of "sh*t" in an art exhibition. Others on the Left call Sephardi Jews, and other right-wing voters who support Netanyahu, as "Bibists" at best, and "baboons" at worst.
Olmert called the Netanyahu family, who symbolize the opposition, "mentally ill." What is the difference between Olmert and Netanyahu? After years of legal persecution, justifiable or not, Olmert has become beholden to the most corrupt elites.
Corruption in modern-day Israel is not expensive gifts that can be put on one's table, but the very expensive gifts and far-reaching benefits that elites grant their exclusive club. Just look at Shai Nitzan or any other director who moves from one managerial position to another without any understanding of the subject.
Netanyahu is the exact opposite of Olmert, in that he will neither kneel nor bow. It is in this context that the legal confrontation should be viewed. It is taking place at an unprecedented time since Dudu Topaz's "Riffraff Speech" in 1981 in which he slandered right-wing Sephardi voters. The next generation of shattered hegemony is trying to fulfill Motta Gur's threat to "screw you just like we screwed the Arabs."
It is a miracle that Israelis continue to wait in never-ending lines for tests and have yet to take a page from the Kazakhstani playbook of defiance.
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