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minister approved the al- location of NIS 70 million In praise (nearly $18 million) to re- locate a West Bank army base, so that settlers evacu- ated from an illegal outpost could move into some of the of coercion 300 homes to be built at the former base. The sum is in- tended to compensate the They may not be conscious of it, but settlers for having agreed Israelis are just waiting for the world to move without mounting physical resistance. to step in save them from themselves 2. Last Thursday, Pales- tinians from the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya Eran Rolnik that were taken captive by complained to American primordial anxieties, manic consular officials that set- defenses and death impulses. tlers had uprooted 5,000 of orld statesmen are It’s not only the individ- the villagers’ olive saplings. wrong to wait for ual will that is caught in a One of the landowners in W the Israeli voter to constant conflict between the village is an American have his say before they de- contradictory inner wishes citizen, Israel Radio report- cide whether to recognize a and yearnings: Collective ed. On Friday, when a U.S. Palestinian state and impose political wishes and national Consulate convoy arrived sanctions that will spur Isra- yearnings are also compro- at the area to examine the el to reach a political settle- mise results of unconscious complaints, settlers threw ment with the Palestinians. conflicts between life im- stones at the vehicles. Equally misguided are Is- pulses and death impulses, 3. With Samaria (north- raeli opposition leaders who between a preference for ern West Bank) Regional fear that had the United omnipotence and messian- Council Head Gershon Me- States not cast its traditional ism, or coming to terms sika sidelined by bribery veto in the United Nations it with reality, recognition of and corruption suspicions, would have driven Israel’s dependence and acceptance his acting replacement, Yos- voters to greater extremity. of the “other.” si Dagan demanded that Li- It’s precisely in the run- This is the only way to kud Interior Minister Gilad up to an election that Israeli understand why public Erdan immediately deport voters need a wake-up call opinion polls in Israel show the U.S. Consulate staff from the outside about the consistently overwhelming members whose convoy the implications of the results support for the two-state settlers had attacked. “This of the voting for Israel’s solution and the evacuation Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu. What lessons have their words and actions been teaching us over the last six years? Avi Ohayon/GPO event could have descended international standing. For of the settlements, while in easily into bloodshed and the past 47 years, Israel has practice few Israelis give only as a result of the set- been longing for a slap in the expression to this when they tlers’ responsible behavior face from the international cast their ballots. was [a scenario like that] community, but in vain. What this shows is that prevented,” the settlement In March 1973, on the the Israeli voter needs firm Israel’s negligent parents movement’s Arutz 7 website first anniversary of the support from the outside in quoted Dagan as saying. death of the rabbi, jurist and order to extract his sane The State Department diplomat Yaacov Herzog, parts from the shelter in said the U.S. was “deeply the historian Jacob Talmon which he’s been hiding them What’s Bibi and Sara’s model? Starve the Palestinians. Let the Gazans drown in sewage. concerned” about the in- lauded Herzog’s view that for the past half-century or Let Kibbutz Nirim defend itself. This is our home cident. There has been no despite the unassailable fact so. Only intervention by the comment from the prime that history is controlled by international community minister. the force of neuroses of lead- can undo the balance of ter- 4. This week, the army ers and nations, all of these ror that Israelis maintain Bradley Burston How does this work in trouble, if they’re in dan- scapegoat and deride and true wish is to do harm to abruptly withdrew its small, perplexed and bewil- inside themselves, between practice? First, some of the ger, the parents make nice belittle and foster division our family and drive us troops guarding the kibbut- dered individuals embody knowing what’s good and do- kids in the family get any- noises, and promise them and hatred. from our home. zim and moshavim border- notions and ideas that are ing what’s bad. hat if parents thing and everything they things, but in practice, Dad E. Always believe that One other thing. Dad ing the Gaza Strip, despite immeasurably larger than Only “involuntary treat- raised their want, no matter what they and Mom have other, more there will be no consequenc- holds a bank account for the residents’ fears of rocket, each of them separately and ment” of Israeli rejection- kids the way do, no matter how naughty or important kids on their es. If there are – and there al- neighbors. It’s the neigh- mortar and tunnel attacks than all of them together. ism, executed with sincere Benjamin and bullying or manipulative or minds.(4) ways are (see B., above). bors’ money. But when the akin to those during the Herzog understood well concern for the country’s Sara Netan- destructive or insulting they Some of the kids who The message to the fa- neighbors do something to devastating summer war in that cutting off Jewry from fate, would demonstrate to Wyahu run their country? are in and around the house. don’t matter, some of the vored kids: You can do what- anger Dad, he refuses to Gaza. IDF troops guarding Western culture would re- its citizens that there is no What would it be like A lot of them have al- second-class citizens, are ever you want to whomever give them their own money. illegal outposts in the West duce Israel to a peculiar, correct way to live an in- to live nearby, hear the ready moved out, camping grown and gone, raising you wish, and if something And the favored kids smile. Bank remained in place. arrogant and bothersome correct life, enable them screaming arguments, out on land belonging to families of their own. But bad results, it is never your Are the neighbors hun- 5. This week, the Pri tribe to which the world to forgo their megalomania wonder about what actually cousins, then getting Dad to it’s been tough to be a work- fault. gry? Many are. Many are Hagalil produce-canning owes nothing: neither a and help them release their goes on in there, speculate fix it so that they can stay, ing person where they are So how does this all work thirsty as well. Do we have factory, the sole large em- debt of gratitude nor a debt sanity from its hiding place. about how long this can con- no matter what. Or getting – nowhere near the favorite in practice? It has a lot to do enough water? Miraculous- ployer of the northern town of atonement. He was fear- “He is forced until he tinue without their whole Dad to pay for them to move kids – and Dad’s brother, with who these neighbors ly, we now do. Do the neigh- of Hazor Glilit, was shut ful that the Jewish national says ‘I want to,’” the Gemara house going up in smoke? into new houses across the Uncle Bennett, who’s sup- are. bors? Not at all. Some of the down, as factory workers revival would be overtaken says, recognizing the dual- It’s hard to know for sure, street. [See footnote No. 1, posed to be the cool one, and It just so happens that neighbors also have grave intensively sought the inter- by messianic revolutionism ity of the will and the fact but the hints and the holler- below] Even, in some plac- is in a direct position to help the next-door neighbors are sewage problems. And vention and aid of Economy driven by militant national- that coercion sometimes ing suggest a few guesses. es, if some of the kids throw them, won’t even answer also our cousins. They are that’s only the beginning of Minister Naftali Bennett. ism, on the one hand, and helps a person in his strug- In terms of child rearing, rocks at the cousins who their phone calls.(5) the family whom Dad and a very long list. Bennett had helped secure Jewish death wishes, on the gle against inner factors there is the old adage about used to live there. Even if And then there are the Mom do their best to deny, What message is Dad hundreds of millions of other. that otherwise prevent him kids learning from what the kids rip up trees, which cousins who live in the fam- but they look like us, and modeling the members of shekels in recent funding Just before the apprehen- from realizing his true will. they see at home. So what provide for their cousins’ ily home, who’ve lived there they’ve lived here forever, his household? Let them for West Bank settlement sions of Herzog, of Talmon Those who have Israel’s behaviors have Dad and livelihood, and uproot rows forever, but come out third- and, to complete the Gord- starve. Let them drown in projects. When the Pri Hag- and of many other intellec- welfare at heart, and the Mom been modeling – what and rows of saplings their class citizens. Dad and ian knot, Dad and Mom are sewage. Let our unwanted alil workers phoned him on tuals are about to be realized Jewish lobbies abroad, need lessons have their words cousins just planted. Even Mom treat them like they their landlords. children defend themselves. Sunday, he did not return in full, it is worth reexam- to stop listening only to the and actions been teaching if the kids throw rocks at treat the neighbors. (6) Yes, the neighbors are Let our favored children their call. ining the fear harbored by will of official Israel, which us over the last six years, cars that belong to Grandpa B. When in doubt, blame our cousins. And yes, this throw rocks at our friends. 6. See the prime minis- Israel that the international is unrelated to the Israelis’ and, for that matter, the last in America, who foots the the neighbors. There will be is their land as much as it This is our home. No conse- ter’s Jewish Nation-State community will recognize true will. six days? bills for a lot of the family’s no negative consequences. is ours. But that – the par- quences for us. Law. Palestine and set a date for Official Israel might A. Play favorites. Make expenses.(2) For you. ents are telling us in word Whoa. So what can a per- 7. See the prime minis- the end of the occupation. stamp its feet and cry “an- sure everyone in the family The message from Dad C. When in doubt, starve and deed – is all the more son do? After all, aren’t we ter’s freeze of the transfer Those who are concerned ti-Semites!” or, “by what knows where they stand – and Mom: We’ll spoil you the neighbors. (7) reason that we, as respon- all stuck with the parents of Palestinian tax revenues about intervention in the right?” – but the nation in who’s a favorite child, who’s rotten. Then we’ll spoil you D. In any event, never sible adults, must assert whom life has stuck us last Thursday, a move “internal affairs” of a dem- Israel, whose right hand unwanted, which ones are some more.(3) apologize. ourselves, never back down, with? strongly opposed by Wash- ocratic country, and warn doesn’t know what its left treated as a real part of this What about the other kids E. Never talk when you never compromise, and dis- Yes. At least until March ington and by President Re- against a political settlement is doing, is only waiting for family and which ones, for in the family home? Some of can blame. dain all of the neighbors as 17. uven Rivlin, who said the being forced on Israel are in- genuine help from the out- all that the parents could them simply don’t matter to F. Never bring a fam- bad seeds who cannot be Footnotes: step harmed Israel’s own vited to read an item from side. Help that will enable us care, can go hang. Dad and Mom. If they’re in ily together when you can reasoned with, and whose 1. Last week, the prime interests. the realm of mental health to be healed of the curse of that appeared recently in ruling the Palestinian peo- Haaretz. A study conduct- ple. Israel is not Russia and ed by Israeli researchers it is not Iran, and its citizens found that the involuntary will not accept pariah status Trajtenberg the seventh slot the attorney general’s opin- No wonder Kahlon’s fad- hospitalization of patients indefinitely. Fellows and move the Labor’s secre- ion. A clear mea culpa is his ing, while Yair Lapid, who is suffering from severe an- Apply a small diplomatic tary general, MK Hilik Bar, entry ticket to the premier in radio and TV studios ev- orexia nervosa does not ad- squeeze, such as symbolic to 11th place, for the benefit league of elected officials. ery day, is gaining strength, versely affect the recovery cultural and economic sanc- Continued from page 5 of the party and the people. Without it, he can forget and is again becoming a process, and achieved posi- tions, and the healthy narcis- In the meantime, Herzog about a political career. kind of promise or hope tive results comparable to sism of Israelis will leap to compete under fair condi- is trying to create order in Some will say that even for those who want change those attained with patients life and show them and their tions. Because if Mofaz the campaign headquarters, that isn’t enough, but and haven’t yet despaired. who were hospitalized vol- elected representatives the or Yadlin is on the ticket, where, according to people the public likes to see its He has almost literally untarily. way to end the occupation Bar-Lev might no longer be in the know, chaos reigns be- elected officials admitting come back from the dead, Patently, “involuntary and bring the settlers home, needed. cause of the duality caused mistakes, as long as the ad- as Menachem Begin said of treatment” raises weighty to within Israel’s recognized There is plenty of bad by the entry of Livni’s mission rings with authen- himself in the 1981 election questions in the realms of international boundaries. blood between Mofaz and people: Every appointment ticity. And reasonable folk campaign. ethics, civil law and Jewish No war of Gog and Magog Livni from their time in needs the approval of both will agree that Galant paid Kahlon’s people admit religious law. However, ther- will erupt here, nor a “war Kadima. But Livni told Her- her and Herzog. People who heavily for that episode: He that he made a mistake by apists and patients who have of brothers.” As we see in zog she would not intervene meet in the corridors of lost the appointment as chief not leaping into the arena as experience with involuntary psychic therapies that begin in this matter, and that if a campaign headquarters in of staff, which was already soon as the Knesset was dis- treatment – on the adminis- with coercion and end with meeting is needed between Tel Aviv ask each other, “Are his, not to mention the public solved. “But we built a party, tering or receiving end, re- gratitude, when the sane and her and Mofaz to clear the you from the bride’s side or embarrassment he endured. established infrastructures, spectively – know that an in- healthy self is convinced the air, she will be there. Mofaz the groom’s?” Nor does anyone dispute his opened branches, looked for dividual’s will, whether that outside world is not writing has also agreed to this. The Herzog-Livni part- Amos Yadlin. Angling for defense minister. Moti Milrod security record or expertise candidates and tried to raise individual is healthy or ill, it off, it stops cooperating As for Yadlin, he’s told nership has done wonders in military matters. (In any money,” they say. “We’re a is not monolithic and does with the destructive ele- Herzog he doesn’t want to for Labor at the public lev- event, he should find a way new party. All the others are not reflect the whole range ments that took hold of it. be an MK and be given the el. But the party machinery, heavens forced postpone- purposes. And isn’t Kahlon, to get rid of the appalling organized and flooded with of his personality, needs and Gradually the screaming 11th slot on the slate. People which should be running like ment of that event. Kahlon who is perceived as being and megalomaniacal four- money.” longings. and kicking subside, and so who know him say this has a well-oiled machine by now, didn’t want the reports about the cleanest of the party turreted castle in which he Next week Kahlon plans Making it possible to do the terrible delight of nothing to do with modesty; is still sputtering. Labor can his most glittering acquisi- leaders, and promised his lives. It looks like something to present the top 10 in the feed anorexic patients who omnipotence and destruc- on the contrary, he’s a per- only take consolation from tion, however bruised and slate would have only people kids would be afraid to walk party ticket and officially are starving themselves to tion to which it became ad- son who knows his worth the fact that things aren’t stigmatized he may be, to of immaculate behavior, re- past in the dark.) launch the campaign. He’s death is not the only goal of dicted. Israel, not unlike so – and how. It’s beneath his much better in Likud. be shunted to the end of the neging on that promise? Galant’s presence on not perturbed by the nega- forced treatment. Primar- many patients, is longing to dignity to be an MK, one of newscasts after the storm One thing is clear: If the slate is meant to re- tive turn in the polls; he ily, it sends a message to the be committed by its friends 120. He’s angling for defense reports. Galant doesn’t use his de- vivify the secret, incom- doesn’t think its fatal. patient’s feeble, life-wishing and they will be held respon- minister. Period. Well, after Looking for a lift Galant’s coming in from but as politician to admit his prehensible and stumbling Together, Kulanu and and helpless self that he is sible for its demise should all, he’s a pilot. “It’s time to get one’s head the cold will kick off public mistake and express contri- campaign of Kulanu. This Yesh Atid look set to garner “not alone.” they refrain from helping If Yadlin wants to be a above water,” former naval debate over his moral fitness tion, without beating around week’s Haaretz poll showed around 22 seats. When Lapid The psychotherapist, by it out of its current political minister who is not an MK, commando unit commander to be appointed a cabinet the bush, he will instantly the new party consistently was polling 8-9 seats, early positioning himself unam- and historical impasse. Herzog could place the Maj. Gen. (res.) Yoav Galant minister, as promised him become a burden to Kula- losing ground. Kahlon was in the campaign, Kahlon biguously on the side of the economist Manuel Trajten- wrote on his Facebook page by Kahlon. Four years ago, nu, Kahlon’s party, which is dubbed a “present absentee” was showing 11-12. Now the healthy and sane parts of Eran Rolnik is a psychiatrist, berg, who joined Labor and on Tuesday – a day before the attorney general noted already having difficulties in these pages, and he’s actu- wheel has turned. Kahlon is the patient’s psyche, and by psychoanalyst and historian. He is Zionist Camp’s candidate Moshe Kahlon planned to that appointing him chief of taking off. No one knows ally more absent than pres- convinced that it will turn agreeing to endure the pa- is the author of “Freud in Zion: for finance minister, in present him at a press con- staff would entail “signifi- better than Galant himself ent. He hasn’t given a single again as soon as they enter tients’ contempt and fury, Psychoanalysis and the Making of the top 10 on the ticket, as ference as a candidate on cant legal difficulties,” be- that he needs to apologize: interview, not even when the the arena. Sixty days is a assists in extracting the sane Modern Jewish Identity” (Karnac Trajtenberg thinks is only his party’s slate. Ironically, cause he apparently seized It’s all there, in the state social-welfare agenda was in long time, and what went up parts of the patient’s self Books, London, 2012 ). fitting. Herzog could give abundant water from the public land for personal comptroller’s report and in the headlines. can also come down. Haaretz | Friday, January 9, 2015 7

W E E K E N D Under the naked sky On New Year’s Day, the Civil Administration demolished the homes of shepherds in the Jordan Valley. Dozens were left destitute, at the mercy of the elements

moved on to his compound. to do,” he laments. “In regard to this case, a Five structures – tents to live A spokesperson for the petition was submitted to the The Twilight Zone in and animal pens – are now Civil Administration stated: Supreme Court, which was Gideon Levy and Alex Levac gone. “These are illegal structures stricken from the record, A threadbare checkered that were erected, and were with the petitioners under- wool blanket lays on the bare demolished at the beginning taking to take action to regu- ground. Ibrahim stretches of the month for the second larize the construction with- ere’s how 2015 be- property were obviously not himself out on it. His sono- time, because they were built in 45 days. As the petitioners Khader Ibrahim. After the Kaabanas’ hamlet was razed, the wreckers moved to his compound. gan for residents of sufficient. An argument rous voice rumbles across without a permit in a firing did not do so in the course of H the shepherds’ com- broke out between the Civil the expanse. He and the oth- zone in the Jordan Valley re- four months after the petition pound at Ain al-Hilweh, in Administration people and ers spent the first night in gion. It should be noted that was stricken, the structures wrote, “This evening I had derly parents – his father is Jordan Rift? What will hap- the northern Jordan Valley: the Border Police, Kaabana the open, he says. Then the being present in a firing zone were demolished.” a call from Mohammed, a disabled from an Israeli land pen when it rains? I asked if at the mercy of the cold and relates. The latter did not neighbors brought them a used regularly by the IDF for Dafna Banai, an activ- shepherd, with whom we’ve mine and is sick. there was anything special rain, under the naked sky, want to allow residents even tent and some plastic sheet- training using live ammuni- ist from Machsom Watch- been in touch from boyhood “What will happen to they needed, and there was their homes reduced to rub- to gather up their property. ing for shelter. “What will I tion is dangerous and against Women Against the Occupa- ... He was crying. He’s young, them? How will they survive silence. What would he ask ble, utterly destitute. Heaps “I’m in charge here,” a po- do? There is nothing for me the law. tion and for Human Rights, he’ll get over it, but his el- the freezing nights of the for? They have nothing.” of ruins are all that remain, lice officer declared. “You’re the wreckage of tents and the guard,” a Civil Adminis- shacks, with remnants of tration official shot back. their meager belongings The results are scattered strewn around. all around: crushed house- Happy New Year to the hold utensils, torn clothes, 80 members of the Kaabana slashed up rugs – all of it family, now homeless. Happy under steel tent pegs, which New Year to their neighbor, thrust skyward like a mute Khader Ibrahim, a shepherd, monument. who lost a leg as a child when This time, Kaabana says, he stepped on an Israeli army Civil Administration per- landmine or unexploded sonnel used utility knives shell, and is now sitting ab- and pruning shears to tear jectly where his tents stood apart whatever the bulldoz- last week. ers missed. All 30 structures Happy New Year to his of the compound were de- eight children, who are now stroyed. Nothing remains, scampering among the ruins, other than a refrigerator and their teeth chattering from an iron bed that were sal- the cold. Happy New Year to vaged. the dozens of newborn lambs The International Red and kids, the first litters of Cross provided the resi- 2015, whose pens were also dents with a few tents, but razed, leaving them exposed not enough, Kaabana says. to the winter weather, as a re- At night the family huddles sult of which some died. in one big tent supplied by Happy New Year, too, to neighbors. the Israeli Civil Administra- Most of the sheep are tion and the Border Police, outside. This is the birthing who enforce the apartheid season, and the condition of laws in the territories, and the newborn animals is wor- who last week raided this for- risome. Fatma, Kaabana’s lorn community of shepherds wife, is pregnant, too, in her and destroyed all their prop- seventh month. When she erty, ignoring the anguished burst into tears during the outcries of women and the si- assault, Border Policemen lent weeping of children; ig- ejected her from the site, to noring the fact that they left the other side of the wadi. dozens of people exposed to Kaabana says he received biting cold in the Jordan Rift no warning of the demolition. Valley; ignoring the gross in- Nor did the wreckers tell him justice and inequality of the why their homes were being authorities’ attitude toward destroyed, other than to say, these wretched of the earth, “You are not allowed to be in stark contrast to the at- here.” titude toward the settlers in After each demolition, the area. Kaabana rebuilds a few me- After all, someone has to ters away from the previous do the dirty and repellent site, so that the new struc- work of the slow, persistent, tures will not be immedi- systematic ethnic cleansing ately razed. As we talk, a of this valley. Civil Administration vehicle Ain al-Hilweh is situated is parked on the main road, just past the settlement of its occupants observing us. Maskiyot, along the road The sight fills Kaabana with that climbs from the Jordan trepidation. Valley eastward toward the “Does this bother [Prime small town of Tayasir. Not far Minister] Netanyahu?” he off is the community of Halat asks, pointing to the ruins Makhoul, which has been de- of his property. And again, molished time after time and “Does this bother Netan- is now rebuilt. yahu?” The Kaabanas have no- “There was a children’s where to go with their flocks tent here, and this is where – their only source of liveli- we slept,” he says, giving hood – and no force will move us a tour of the debris. “The them from their land. Mah- kitchen was here and the ani- moud Kaabana is a 44-year- mal pen was there. This was old shepherd, married and the home of the lambs, and the father of 10 children. that was for the older sheep.” Together with the families Nothing remains. Even the of his six siblings, and their vegetable patch he planted parents, there are about 80 near his home – eggplants, souls in this pastoral commu- cucumbers, onions and pep- nity. He says he and his father pers for domestic use – was were born on this land, which trampled brutally. was leased to them by its The animals are out to pas- owner, the Catholic Church ture on the hill, but when they in Jerusalem. return toward evening, there The Civil Administration will be no place to shelter has now demolished their them against the oncoming tiny habitation, which con- chill of the desert night. sists solely of tents and tin In his despair, Kaabana shacks, three times: in June asks for assistance: “Maybe 2011, in January 2014 and on people will bring us plastic January 1, 2015. The first de- sheeting to cover the sheep, molition took place in the ear- and clothes for the children? ly summer, but the previous I am asking for help. No one one, last January, left people is helping us. I am asking peo- and animals exposed to the ple all over the world to help rain, and Israel blocked out- us. We are left with nothing.” side attempts to assist them. His little daughter Thai- About 30 sheep died. In the ma, a year and seven months early days, the refugees took old, clings to his leg. Her shelter under a small bridge, teeth are chattering from the and then neighbors and other cold. She is dressed in rags, good people brought them like her sister, seven-year-old plastic sheeting, clothing and Sarah. tents. The scene repeated it- Not far away, about one ki- self last Thursday, as the new lometer to the west, a heavy- year was ushered in. set man is climbing the hill, “Happy New Year,” Kaa- breathing hard, staggering, bana says with a bitter smile, leaning on a stick, barely “this is how a new year moving, until he finally starts.” comes to a halt. Heaps of ru- The raiding party – around ins lie about. This was where 20 jeeps and two bulldozers – his home stood. swooped in at about 9 A.M. Khader Ibrahim, who’s All the people and animals about 45 or 50, he has no idea, were evacuated, and the de- is a father of eight. Now he molition began. The 10 min- hobbles around on an artifi- utes the inhabitants were cial limb. After the wreckers given to come to grips with finished leveling the hamlet the situation and collect their of the Kaabana family, they