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Lior Meiri:
Tldr: so what next for liberals in Israel?
Over the last few days I've gotten feedback that I'm sowing hate against the Israeli-Kahanist mutation & despair for those condemned by circumstance to stay here: the elderly. The sick.
Those with children of special needs who require stability.
The divorced.
1st off, I'll take the note.
My first response was that sometimes you need strength not for struggle, but to look the facts in the eye. The I grasped that there are folks that no dose of recognizing reality will enable them them to just up & leave, and maybe they need a plan as well.
(BTW, those who up & leave need a plan beyond one for themselves & theirs, but that's a whole other post.)
So what's a Secular Liberal Democrat w/o the means to emigrate to do?
1. Alter one's outlook from one of civil participation to one of a hounded minority. A sectorial party concerned w/nothing beyond improving the lives of Liberal Democrats, gaining them privileges, & keeping them. One who strives to be in any coalition, w/no bellyaching & no "state solution". Just extracting funds from the state, paying it as little as possible, and heaven forbid sacrificing children to the Army of God. Full educational & moral autonomy.
2. Geographical, political & communal consolidation. Kibbutzes, Tel Aviv, Sharon moshavs, Emek Yizrael. Geographically, a citizen of the Kingdom of Judea entering one of these places, should feel like a secular woman in Bnei Brak. Contempt, hatred, loathing. No comfort here. Officers of the Police of Fascism entering secular neighborhoods must worry that the whole populace will come out & burn their vehicle at a moment's warning, should they try arresting one of ours. To unite & work collectively wherever possible: parties (in addition to above), trade unions, large "action squads" for aggressive action in response to attempts at repression.
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3. Protecting secular liberal culture, founding media organs w/no entry for fascist-religious influence, a separate educational system, keeping open contact w/Israeli expat communities abroad to preserve both lingual & financial independence, a future for children to land there if they wish.
4. An understanding that this is a battle of retreat & pause, until all the children who are able are elsewhere safe & stable. The odds of reversing the wheels of the processes occurring here are negligible. While you have 2 kids in elementary school, Religious Zionists have 10 - and despite this all the fucking secular Zionist parties, all the protest organizations, all the opposition MK's, all are in a ridiculous attitude of "civil participation". We are all brothers, together to victory, come on to reserves. Send the kids to state schools. Taxes on time. We are the backbone, and all that blindness.
5. The fact you don't emigrate from here doesn't mean you can go on as usual. Not by accepting authority, not by bending your children to the raging garbage fire we call "the state education system". You must understand who is truly like you morally, and who just appears secular but has already internalized the fascism & racism and will happily adapt to the Ben-Gvirized mutation of life. Those who just look like you, leave them be. Tells: they ask "what's wrong with a little tradition", they phrase sentences using "Our brothers" (the Haredim, the Settlers).
6. Contact w/liberal Israeli communities abroad. Not all abroad are liberal. No need to keep in touch w/Bibi-ists in Miami.
In summary:
Recognize those similar to you. Move close to them, educate your children together, far from the fascism & the militarism. Commune in groups that know how to coordinate. Stand apart. Defend yourselves.
Stop thinking you are Israel. You are not. Ben-Gvir is Israel and you are defending your autonomy from him.
"Stop thinking you are Israel. You are not. #Ben-Gvir is Israel and you are defending your autonomy from him."
Lior Meiri (formerly of "The New Likkudniks") calling for secular seccession (in alt).
* (He's so close - SJW forgot #Palestinians, tho.)
#IsraelCrumbles
#FuckHasbarists
#FreePalestine
