They sense that they have lost the battle for the Israeli soul; they know that the electorate— not only the Orthodox— has said No to their desire to shed our uniqueness
The judicial reform demonstrators mindlessly parrot the mantra that Israel is becoming a dictatorship or, Heaven forfend, a theocracy, and that our very future is in jeopardy.
The leftist secular leaders of these protests should indeed worry about the future, but a future that is jeopardized not by overdue Supreme Court reforms which will enhance democracy and not threaten it, but by something much more serious: their own future — which is endangered by their failure to transmit even minimal Jewish awareness and pride to their coming generations. The Court issue will eventually fall into place, and life will go on. The issue of Jewishly illiterate youngsters will not easily be resolved, and Jewish life for them will be at risk.
Israel has long been wrestling over its future. Will it be k’chol hagoyim — like all other nations, or will it be uniquely Jewish? At first, the traditional world-view was losing the struggle; secularism was powerful and ascendant. But that did not last. Surprisingly, the traditional forces got up from the mat and, paralleling the remarkable resurrection of authentic Judaism around the world, began flexing thier muscles. This resurrection — really a rejection of secular extremes — reached its zenith in the recent election.
And elections have consequences. Perhaps the current leftist panic is fueled by the dawning realization that the electorate has rejected their ideology with its willful antagonism to authentic Jewish ways, and its fawning imitation of the West. (They even imitate the former American president in refusing to recognize that they lost the election.)
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