What the Left is really after
CAROLINE GLICK
Churchill's "true colors" and the world's enraged response to Succot
Saturday, 25 September 2010
CarolineGlick.com / September 24, 2010
Following the example of its counterparts in the West, for decades the Israeli Left has carefully cultivated its image as the fun side of the political divide.
In a thousand different ways, the public was told that the Left is on the side of tomorrow. It is the home of optimism. If you want a cheery future, if you want to party all night long and never get a hangover, the image-makers told us the Left is the place to be.
From the Left's perspective, the peace process between Israel and the PLO was the fulfillment of its promise. It was also its key to a permanent cultural monopoly and control of government.
Israelis who objected to handing control over the country's heartland and capital city to the PLO were nothing more than gloom and doom preaching, messianic extremists. The Right was angry. The Left was happy. The Right was the party of war. The Left was the party of peace. The Right was suspicious and tribal. The Left was optimistic and international.
In this week's episode of the Tribal Update, the television-on-internet satire show produced weekly by Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I edit, against the backdrop of the renewed "land for peace" talks between Israel and the PLO, we reveal the truth about World War's origins and reveal Winston Churchill's "true colors."
We also describe the world's enraged response to the festival of Succot.
I hope you enjoy the show.
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