Israel's Slippery Slope Podcast

22/07/2024

I got a WhatsApp message at midnight from the American-Israeli Lecturer (School of Media Studies, College of Management in Rishon LeZion) who annually invites me to lecture on American Politics in a debate with the representative of the Republicans in Israel, Marc Zell.

His midnight plea to me was:
"COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT THE IMMEDIATE IMPLICATIONS OF BIDEN'S DECISION ON THE CHOICE OF A FUTURE CANDIDATE. WOULD DELEGATES PLEDGED TO BIDEN AUTOMATICALLY HAVE TOTRANSFER THEIR VOTES TO KAMALA HARRIS...WHAT ABOUT MONEY COLLECTED FOR BIDEN?"

My reply to him is:

"Good morning sir,

"Nothing from this point is automatic.

"However, should Camilla Harris receive and accept the nomination, all donations migrate with her because, as you know, it's a president-vice president ticket.
And that's enough of a reason to cement her chances of winning both the nomination and the election.

"I have also heard someone suggest that her running mate should be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That would make a few absolute distinctions between the Republicans and the Democrats.
1. The very much older (almost Biden-aged) Trump vs. the younger and effervescent Harris.
2. Two people of color, representing the rainbow of American citizens (that has long been the case for many decades) vs. a totally white slate, representing a racist version of the USA that is a thing of the past.
3. A very clear difference in National agendas, with one being of the past, and one representing the future of America.
4. Two men versus two women, opening the door for the entire spectrum of American citizens to become president, including Jews."

America is moving away from the White, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant country it was a hundred years ago. And it's moving fast!

Note that some of the "swing states" that are among those moving toward a majority of diversity, color, and mother tongue (Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, and Wisconsin). Imagine how a Latino VP candidate might tip the scales!

"From 2000 to 2018, 109 counties in 22 states, from California to Kansas to North Carolina, went from majority white to majority nonwhite – that is, counties where non-Hispanic whites are no longer the majority, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. (Our analysis includes only counties with a minimum population of 10,000 in 2018. These counties represent 77% of the nation’s 3,142 counties and include 99% of the U.S. population.)

"In 21 of the 25 biggest U.S. counties by population, nonwhite groups together make up more than half of residents. Eight of these counties were majority white in 2000 but are no longer: San Diego, Orange, Riverside and Sacramento (all in California), plus Clark (Nevada), Broward (Florida), Tarrant (Texas) and Wayne (Michigan).
— Pew Research Center AUGUST 21, 2019

21/07/2024

27-year-old Natanel Binyamin is a Jew who was convicted of a mob assault on Arab driver (here, aka lynch attempt) in the Bat Yam suburb of Tel Aviv during the Operation Guardian of the Walls
(מבצע שומר החומות) operation/war in Gaza in May 2021.

Saeed Mousa was pulled from his car by a mob that proceeded to beat him, leaving him seriously injured.

Natanel was convicted last September of a terrorist act of attempted murder, intentionally damaging a car, theft, and rioting that resulted in damage. For the latter three charges, it was determined that he acted with a racist motive.

Natanel briefly left the scene after passersby defended Mousa, then returned to kick him in the face and threw a bottle at his head with the intention of killing him, according to the charge sheet.

"Binyamin was also charged with encouraging attacks on Arab-owned businesses in Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv, and, along with others, of smashing store windows and ransacking a restaurant before attacking Mousa, who was on his way to the beach at the time."

He was just sentenced to 12.5 years in prison! The prosecution sought a 20-year term. But in today's atmosphere of hatred and racism, 12.5 years sends an important message to others who might feel justified in attacking anyone in a hate crime; wartime or otherwise.

SOME justice is still possible in Israel. This isn't a small thing while our fascist-leaning government is still intent on eating away our civil rights, while protecting those who ignore the human rights of non-Jews in Israel and the occupied territories.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bat-yam-man-sentenced-to-12-5-years-for-2021-mob-assault-on-arab-driver/

He was also ordered to compensate Mousa with NIS 100,000 ($27,361.61).

Prosecution sought 20-year term for Netanel Binyamin for beating of Saeed Mousa; defense intends to appeal guilty verdict from last year, seek acquittal

14/07/2024

Poll from early July, 2024 (9 months into this Israel-Hamas war) shows how many Israelis (Jews and non-Jews) for or against the deal to release the hostages that is currently being discussed with Hamas.

64% are in favor!
Only 15% are against!

Accepting means an immediate ceasefire, which Netanyahu will not want because he knows he will be forced out of office and go back on trial.

I present more poll findings in my comments.

13/07/2024

I was invited to be interviewed at an event in the Arabic city of Nazareth that was sponsored by one of the largest Arabic Israeli news platforms on the Internet Bokra), a few months ago.

They asked for me to spell out (in Hebrew) why I believe what I do about a mutual future Jews and Arabs within Israel and what I feel about how our relations have developed since the October 7, 2024 massacre and the war it began. I took it also to how we will eventually come to the end of our conflict and that it is possible; so we must stop up and make it happen with most urgency. (How many Israeli Jews and Palestinians have died since then...!)

This was the "short" recording of my beliefs. The longer one was much better and had most of the Palestinian participants listening with their jaws on the floor. They weren't used to hearing any Jews speak that way. I got a round of applause when I finished.

To watch, click the box in the upper left of the Arabic dialog box.

موقع بكرا هو بورتال إخباري وتفاعلي متنوّع ، يُدار من قبل شركة "بكرا للاتصالات م.ض" ومقرّه مدينة الناصرة.

02/07/2024

CALLING ALL LOVERS OF PEACE!
Please reply with your answers and reflections.

Who saw any coverage of yesterday's Peace Conference of 6,000 participants in the Menora Arena in Tel Aviv on any TV news program, mainstream (Channels 11, 12, 13, or even 14)?
ANY COVERAGE? Please let us know on which channel and program.

Who saw any coverage of yesterday's Peace Conference on any Internet TV news program (Walla, ILTV, DemocraTV, Relevant, YNet, etc.)
ANY COVERAGE? Please let us know on where and on what program.

NOTE that Binyanei Ha'Umah holds only 3,104 participants, where the Netanyahu coalition and other right-wing extremists held their rally to resettle Gaza, as their day after plan.
IT GOT HUGE COVERAGE ON ALL CHANNELS AND ON ALL NEWS OUTLETS! EVEN LIVE!

There were 9.4K views of the official Live Stream!

A rally of 3,104 racists and haters, messianic extremists who are willing to destroy Israel and the Zionist dream of democratic Homeland of the Jewish People got LIVE coverage on all channels and all platforms!
A rally of 6,000 Jew and Arab activists for Peace got NO LIVE coverage and very little the next day. NONE in the news reports of the day.

The only English newspaper/Internet report today is on Times of Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-tel-aviv-confab-israels-embattled-peace-camp-seeks-to-revive-itself-post-oct-7/

Hebrew: https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politi/2024-07-02/ty-article/00000190-7228-d129-afba-fffbc82b0000

Bringing together Jewish and Arab activists under slogan ‘only peace can bring security,' event features historian Yuval Noah Harari and Hadash chair Ayman Odeh as keynote speakers

28/06/2024

I'll be in the arena in Tel Aviv.

26/06/2024

In a discussion with a Palestinian in a
FB group called "Israelis & Palestinians for Peace שָׁלוֹם سَلَام (IP4P)," I replied to an angry version of his views on Israel (and "Zionists") in the following words.
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I try to explain what it was to yearn for and struggle for our people's homeland (until 1948) when they lack an understanding of Palestinians' yearning for and struggling for their homeland ever since.

Both peoples had their crimes against humanity in riots or massacres against the other in Hebron, the King David Hotel, Tantura, Kiryat Shmona and Maalot, Buenos Aires, Beirut, etc.

But here's a watershed moment in which only a days-worth of bloodshed overshadows all those murdered/killed put together.

And the hatred and brutality of each of those previous "incidents," even when multiplied by each other, don't reach the brutality and lack of any minimal humanitarian understanding of what was unleashed on southern Israel on October 7th! WATERSHED!

How watershed for Israel and the Jewish People?

"The 9/11 terrorist attacks killed 2,977 people and injured thousands at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Somerset County, Pennsylvania." That was also in one day. At the time, the population of the USA was 285,000,000.

At the time of the October 7 attack from Gaza, the population of Israel was 9,557,500, and 1,200 people in Israel were killed in one day. What a huge impact that has on Israelis (not just Jews) and the Jewish People and families of Palestinian citizens in Israel around the world! (Don't forget that not only Jews were murdered (etc.) on October 7.)

Do the math, my friend, and you'll see that comparatively, the dimensions of dead on October 7 in Israel would be the equivalent of not 2,977 killed on 9/11 in America, but 35,783 KILLED ON 9/11!

Imagine what an impact THAT would have had on the USA and the world! THAT'S ALMOST 30 TIMES LARGER!

Imagine how America and the world would be affected if tomorrow, 35,783 people would be subjected to brutality, r**e, beheading, and murder in one day! And each of those 35,783 victims saw the face of their murderer, or the faces of those who murdered their children, parents, grandchildren, or grandparents as they carried out their crimes, but are the "lucky ones" who survived to live out their lives with those memories.

I understand how horrific and unacceptable the death of 37,626 Gazans since October 7th is to Gazans, Palestinians, and those who value humanity in the world. But imagine if 1,750 Gazans were killed in one day! As is, the average (and horrific) daily death toll in Gaza is 136.57 — and that's 136.57 too many. But if every day since October 7, 1,200 Gazans were killed, the death toll would be 163,892 in Gaza today.

So, I apologize for making such clean mathematical comparisons. It sickens me. But if THAT sickens YOU, we are on the way to better understanding the ramifications of what October 7 had in Israel and around the world. WATERSHED!

We, Israelis, must officially understand and accept the pain of the Nakba on all Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and Christians to be able to progress together.

All Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and Christians must officially understand and accept the pain of the Holocaust and pogroms of centuries to be able to progress together.

I wish you and the Palestinian People, and the Israeli and Jewish People around the world an end to the numbers, the killing, and the hatred that caused this war.

I wish you and all a new WATERSHED MOMENT in us all realizing that we (the humans among us) have the power to end the fighting, this war, and the conflict.

We must all demand of our leaders that they recognize the suffering and humanity of the other, to prevent it from continuing any further. Believe me; the majority of Israelis want the war to end now. And if both sides seize that moment, and enjoy the rest for the rest (of us), we can make a watershed moment to change the world for the better.

22/06/2024

Dear friends,

Yehuda Beinin (from Hashomer Hatzair, NY and father of the released hostage, Liat Beinin Atzili) and I (from Hashomer Hatzair, LA) are members of the Steering Committee for the Forum of Israeli Peace NGOs.

We are ramping up the proactive nature of the Forum and will be holding a major Peace Conference at the end of September, the first created by our Forum since the war broke out. We expect thousands of Jewish and Palestinian participants in the conference to be held in the largest Sports Arena in Haifa.

We would appreciate your cooperation in finding some social media-savvy volunteers to help us make a substantial footprint on the major social media sites.

We are reaching out to people of our kind because we must be sure of the abilities and intentions of such a volunteer expressing our Forum's desires and intentions for stopping this war to bring home all our hostages and ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Neither age nor physical location are an issue. We will interview volunteers to get our word out as quickly as possible.

Your help in finding such a volunteer will be of great value to us, and possibly to peace in our region.

You might be interested to know that we support the Biden plan for the Middle East.

You can either give my contact information to willing volunteers or have us contact the volunteer directly. Please do not reply to this request here on this Facebook site. Instead, please contact me through Facebook Messenger or email [email protected].

This important position might morph into a paid position, once we succeed in raising the funds for a properly paid staff.

We hope to also inform you of additional ways in which you can support our activities for peace in cooperation with our 127 member NGOs, as soon as we can.

Thanks in advance,
Moshe Chertoff

14/06/2024

An absolute disgrace by Channel 12 news on tonight's Friday Nite news, the weekly summary of news! Shame on them!

The night after the messianic and other religious parties in our Knesset enabled the passing of a further, unlimited deferral from draft for students of the Torah, while our army is lacking essential numbers of soldiers, they present this piece of "news."

It was 4 and a half minutes of footage in a synagogue in which the father of rescued hostage Noah Argemani spoke to the congregation about how only his belief in god kept him going and brought her back. His words didn't mention once any of the soldiers and other security personnel who'd worked on Noah's release for weeks and endangered themselves immensely. He didn't even mention the commander of the unit who was killed in the operation.

I have no issues with how this father feels or why. That's his right. And I'm immensely pleased for him, his wife, Noah and their entire family that Noah has returned.

But to let his whole (painfully lacking) speech be played from start to finish, especially in these divisive days in Israeli society, was a travesty of journalism and a kick in the groin of all the families and friends of so many soldiers who are returning to serve in Gaza a third time, while young yeshiva men don't have to do even the most minimal national service...it's a crime.

650 Israeli soldiers (not only Jews) have died in action since October 7, 2023. That's nearly an entire regiment. And we're lacking thousands of soldiers to enable reservists to have the rest of their lives, and not only return for another or two stints (or more).

Had the piece been about a Christian or Muslim person ranting about how his religion was the only reason their family member had been released from terrorists, it would get some mention and a few seconds of quotes. This was unprecedented.

I think that Keshet and the Channel 12 news company must apologize to the general public. I hope it was only a mistake and not an attempt to cover up the disgraceful decision of the Netanyahu government to approve the law taking only students of Torah off the hook from serving.

נועה ארגמני שבה הביתה

11/06/2024

After receiving the attached over-simplistic and totally insensitive cartoon from a Facebook friend, I replied with the following request.

I would ask of everyone to have some self-restraint in the face of so many who are suffering and will continue to suffer for quite a long time.
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Please stop sharing/forwarding such simplistic cartoons that only make it harder to get the sides to agree to end the fighting and further a just resolution to our conflict.

To better understand why I'm asking this of you, please try the following:

1. Take another good look at the cartoon.
2. Replace the line of Palestinians, with a baby, a young boy, a young girl, their mother, and their father; all wet, crying and screaming, and tied together on the bed of their safe room.
3. Replace the IDF bomber with three Hamas/Islamic Jihad militants/terrorists with one holding a lit match in the air.
4. Replace the bombs with a canister that another one of them is holding that is labeled, "Gasoline."
5. Now take the text balloon from pointing at the cockpit, down to where it points to the mouth of the combatant that's holding the match.

I've seen the actual footage of one such family that was taken in their safe room on October 8th.
But they were totally burned to ash figurines of their different sizes while still tied together. Their surviving neighbors and family identified them
Forensic investigation proved that they were alive and breathing when they were set on fire because smoke was discovered in their trachea.
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I don't want to seem like only I demand any empathy for the other. But such simplistic words and graphics lack all human sensitivity.

Both sides are extremely hurting and in indescribable pain.
Both sides are extremely hurting...each other.
Both sides are guilty of war crimes, as defined in the Geneva Conventions of war.

But don't lose your memory or influence others to forget two essential facts. And YES, there are additional facts that go back to 1967 and 1948, and even further. That too must not be forgotten!

But these two facts specifically relate to what happened since October 6, 2023 that has specifically ignited a war unlike others fought between Israel and Gaza, or Israel and Hamas, or Israel and any other "organization," and the death of tens of thousands of innocent civilians and thousands of soldiers.

Fact 1
In a well-planned and executed attack, and without ANY provocation, 3,000 Gazans crossed our internationally recognized border and ignited everything that followed until this moment. And their leaders knew that the death and destruction in Gaza that followed would occur.
Fact 2
The rescue operation (to which the cartoon refers) was the EXACT INVERSE of the attack of October 7th.
A. That one was planned to capture, torture, r**e, further torture, murder (sometimes committed during the torture and r**e), continue to r**e the dead victim and then destroy the remains of babies, small children, women, and men civilians, and abduct living and dead humans back into Gaza as hostages. Yes, they also attacked soldiers, but only to enable getting beyond the bases to the civilian communities.
B. The rescue operation was for the only purpose of SAVING LIVES OF CIVILIAN HOSTAGES!
YES, it killed hundreds of Gazans, the majority of whom were attacking the escaping hostages and their saviors.
But I reserve the right to distinguish between the intent of the two military actions.

None of that justifies the killing of innocent Gazans.
But it puts the predicament of Israeli families of party goers into a proper perspective.

Without any visit from the International Red Cross, no one knew if our hostages are alive and well, alive and in need of medical attention, or dead (sometimes buried somewhere in the Gazan sand while the murderers escaped progressing IDF forces, to prevent connecting the bodies to their murderers).
In the void toward a resolution that would end the war and return all hostages, family members are left without any hope of ever knowing about or freeing their loved ones or friends.

Now I hope you understand how it hurt me to get this cartoon from you.

I'd appreciate if you would pass my request to you on to those who provide you with such counterproductive simplistic cartoons.
I do the same to Israeli/Jewish providers of similar, yet opposite insensitive graphics.

Thank you for your understanding and consideration for the feelings of all victims.

08/06/2024

Menara is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located on the Ramim Ridge of the Naftali Mountains, Upper Galilee, adjacent to the Lebanese border and overlooking the Hula Valley.

80% of the homes on that kibbutz have been destroyed by Hezbollah! The only people still there are the members of the Emergency Response Team and Israeli soldiers who are preventing Hezbollah terrorists from physically crossing the border and taking it over.

This is the reality along the northern border in communities that can be seen by Hezbollah terrorists from within Lebanon who have anti-tank missiles. Those missiles take only a few seconds to hit their target and no one really has time to take cover.

So now, the kibbutz is mostly destroyed by Hezbollah and their streets and sidewalks are destroyed by tanks and other heavy military equipment holding the line.

The weeds have taken over what used to be gardens and lawns are no longer watered or mowed in what used to be one of the most beautiful communities in Israel with the view in one direction of the hills of Lebanon, and the other direction down into the Hula Valley.

The head of security who showed journalists around last week, took them to the kibbutz swimming pool, now filled with only brackish green water, and no one to care for it or use it. He reminded that the divisive language of Netanyahu can be traced back to Menachem Begin, who called out most leftist kibbutz members for their swimming pools, while most Israelis could never have one of their own. REALLY? That's what mattered to the average Israeli? How now brown cow? Why didn't the Israeli right build viable and sustainable communities all around Israel's borders? BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD WANT TO LIVE THERE — SWIMMING POOL OR NOT!

Well, us leftist kibbutznick did and do.

What a (NOT) great and successful government we have that claimed to be the government supplying security to all Israelis!

07/06/2024

FRIDAY NIGHT WARNING!

The Western Galilee suddenly heated up in the past few minutes (8:15 pm) with air raid alerts along the border and in two kibbutzim further inland in the Hills of the Galilee; Ga'aton and Yechiam.
We have many friends there.

07/06/2024

80 years to D-Day.
77 years since the end of the Holocaust, a product of fascism.
76 years to the State of Israel. It's here in strength!

I warned it is here in January of 2016 (check me). That was after fascists burned the offices of the B'Tselem NGO that is a Jerusalem-based non-profit organization whose stated goals are to document human rights violations in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, combat any denial of the existence of such violations, and help to create a human rights culture in Israel.

Former Major General Yair Golan warned the country in March 2016 that he sees the same processes that brought fascist rule to Germany appearing in Israel. The press and the right wing jumped down his throat and turned him politically into a mop to wipe the floor with.

We were both right, and I dare you to prove us wrong!

02/06/2024

This Hebrew news piece is about Yair Golan's landslide victory of 95% in the Labor Party primary election. I was at the celebration party for his victory.

They also ask him about how Channel 14 took some words of an interview with him out of context and tried to label him as a traitor who told followers not to follow orders during the war.

Listen to how he categorically denies the claim and makes it clear who will now lead the Democratic camp into a union that aims to create the next coalition government.

יאיר גולן: הזכייה במפלגה וסערת אי הציות

02/06/2024

This is only our starting point! - May 31, 2024

01/06/2024

October 239, 2023

I spoke this evening to a few hundred demonstrators against our prime minister, who are demanding him to end the war, bring everyone home immediately, resign, and call for elections within 90 days.

I've been protesting in Nahariya every week for a few months. People might have seen my t-shirt, but didn't understand it. So, I explained that an American friend brought it to me from the demonstrations in Los Angeles. It says, "SAVING ISRAELI DEMOCRACY."

I explained to the protesters in Hebrew how they must find out about the Biden Peace Plan and support it. I told them that they must pass the word around to their whole families, their friends, and get everyone to support it. I told them that I will also explain it to viewers of the live Facebook video in English so that Americans and others don't get the impression that we feel we're being forced into it.

I told them that this plan must be accepted by our government and it might be our last change to salvage our situation and our country.

30/05/2024

Two days ago, I attended a conference of participants who will produce a major public peace conference on July 1st in the largest sports and entertainment arena in Israel, Menora Arena. Some 8,000 people, Jews and non Jews, will participate in the first conference of its kind, that we (the Forum of Israeli Peace NGOs) will follow up on with additional conferences in the north and south of Israel.

It was kind of a meeting of all the Who's Who in the Israeli Peace Movement.

Among the notable attendees and contributors were the son daughters, and granddaughter of amazing peace activists over the decades:

* Chemi Peres: son of Shimon Peres, serves as chairman of the executive committee of the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.

* May Pundak: daughter of Ron Pundak (who played an important role in starting the Oslo peace process in 1993, was part of the core group behind the Geneva Initiative, and founder of our Forum of Israeli Peace NGOs), is the CEO of the Israeli-Palestinian peace organization A Land for All.

* Maya Savir: daughter of Uri Savir (Israel's chief negotiator for the Oslo Accords and served as a Member of Knesset from 1999 to 2001) is an Israeli writer and human rights and reconciliation activist.

* Mika Almog, granddaughter of Shimon Peres (https://www.facebook.com/mika.almog.7/videos/1524752527538404)

Among other peace activists were:
* Maoz Inon - leading peace activist whose parents were murdered on October 7, 2023
* Yael Admi (one of TIME Magazine's Women of the Year - 2023 & co-founder of Women Wage Peace)
* Eli Safran - Chair of our Forum of Israeli Peace NGOs & refugee from Kibbutz Sasa on the Lebanese border
* Nadav Tamir - Executive Director of J Street Israel
* Jawad B. Abu-Elhaija - assistant to MK Ayman Odeh
* The ambassadors in Israel of Germany and Belgium
* Baruch Barand Velleman - treasurer of our Forum of Israeli Peace NGOs
* Baruch Shalev - Social Workers for Peace and Welfare (Ossim Shalom), an Israeli organization comprised of Jewish and Arab social workers
* Yehuda Beinin - father of returned hostage in Gaza, Liat Beinin Atzili and member of our Forum of Israeli Peace NGOs
* Yoav Haas
* Alla Shainskaya
* Yonatan Zeigen - son of murdered outstanding peace activist & co-founder of Women Wage Peace, Vivian Silver, who was slain on October 7, 2023

26/05/2024

October 233, 2023

I just read a comment by a young American man to a post from a friend of mine who correctly contended that "the Press" is focussing on the death of Iranian President and of the Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, while their proxies throughout Gaza and the Middle East are attacking in many directions without provocation.

The young man wrote, "As Scott Galloway has said, 'Free speech is never freer than when it is hate-speech against the Jews.'"

I don't know either the young man or Professor Scott Galloway. But here is my reply to him.

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"Free speech is never freer than when it is hate-speech against the Jews...or against the Blacks..or against immigrants..or against LGBTQ2..or against Americans of Far East heritage
mmm......or against Native Americans

"IN THE END, free speech is never freer than when it is hate-speech against...ANYONE!

"Dylan, did you stand next to Mosques on 10/11 to protect them against "American" attackers who blamed all for what a terrorist organization did on 9/11, along with other Jews who did? Or, was it a case of "but I'm not a communist?" (You know the story of how they finally came for me, but no one was left to defend me.)

"I know people who did. And if you didn't, you're still justified to oppose hate-speech against the Jews. But...just a little bit less than "fully" justified.

"Remember, democracy isn't a spectator sport. Wanna be a couch potato defender of democracy? As opposed to being a football couch-quarterback, WE ALL PAY THE PRICE FOR THOSE WHO STAYED HOME!

"If you don't believe me (and I don't know where you're from or where you live or anything else about you b/c you don't put any info on your FB page), learn from our experience here in Israel where we protested EVERY SINGLE WEEK for 39 straight weeks — before our government's messianic and racist policies enabled 3,000 terrorists to cross our border and attack everyone they could (not just Jews).

"And you know what we're doing for the past two months or so? WE'RE OUT PROTESTING AGAIN, b/c our government is not performing the primary task in any democracy — PROTECT ITS CITIZENS. They neglected us for months as they ran, out of control, to ignore all their platform for which they were elected. Instead, they performed a self-coup that let all our defenses fall.

"So, I hope I was wrong and you are really out there taking an activist profile in protecting civil rights and human rights.

"And if I was wrong, please share this message with Scott Galloway and tell him he can contact me. His attitude is exactly the opposite of what is needed now to protect Jews around the world, the State of Israel, and all other peace loving civilians everywhere."