Is Israeli society complicit in Netanyahu’s outrages?

The Israeli society of the 21st century (80% of Jews versus 20% of the Arab population), would be a melting pot of races, customs, languages and values that only the Hebrew language would have in common and in which a silent coup by an ultra-orthodox minority would take place , the "haredim".

Thus, despite representing only 14% of its population, the ultra-orthodox would be a state within the state, ready to swallow all the sensitive areas of power of the Jewish state (Interior, Housing, Mossad and the IDF commanders or Jewish army) and try to impose the "Halacha" or Jewish law to more than 40% of the population that declares itself secular, segment of European filiation, immersed in Western culture and way of life and that wants to be governed by civil law as in other democracies western formal.

As early as 1938, the visionary Einstein warned of the dangers of exclusionary Zionism by stating : "I would like to see a reasonable compromise with the Arabs on the basis of a peaceful life in common because it seems to me that this would be preferable to the creation of a Jewish state". It is impossible to germinate in the twenty-first century given the absence on both sides of valid interlocutors to negotiate a lasting peace that implies the mutual recognition of the States of Israel and Palestine.

Has Israel trivialized evil?

German-Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt in her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem", subtitled "A Report on the Banality of Evil" makes an analysis of the undressed Nazi Eichmann as a war criminal and seen only as a "one-dimensional individual". Thus, according to Arendt, Adolf Eichmann did not present the features of a murderous psychopath, but would be "a simple bureaucrat who carried out orders without reflecting on their consequences and without discerning the good or evil of their actions".

On this analysis Arendt coined the expression "banality of evil" to express that "some individuals act within the rules of the system to which they belong without reflecting on their acts", bringing about Israel’s use of systematic torture, the apartheid of the Palestinian people, the Genocide of the Gazan population and other evil practices "would not be considered on the basis of their effects or their final result provided that the orders to execute them come from higher echelons"the Israeli government of Netanyahu as the only one responsible to History.

Hannah Arendt helped us to understand the reasons for the renunciation of the individual to his critical capacity (freedom) while alerting us to the need to be always vigilant before the foreseeable repetition of the "banalization of evil" by the rulers of any political system, including the sui-generis Jewish democracy.If we extrapolate Arendt’s reflection on Adolf Eichmann to the current situation in the Gaza Strip, "the military commanders of the Tzahal would not present the traits of murderous psychopaths, but would be mere bureaucrats who would carry out orders without thinking about their consequences and without discerning the good or evil of their actions".

However, according to Maximilian Korstanje "fear and not the banality of evil, causes man to renounce his critical will but it is important not to lose sight that in that act the subject remains ethically responsible for his resignation".Thus, the vast majority of Israeli society would be silent accomplice and necessary collaborator in the implementation of xenophobic sentiment against the Arab-Israeli population ( 70% of Israeli Jews would already oppose the equal rights of their Arab compatriots).

Also, following the attack by Hamas on 7 October, an overwhelming majority of society would be in favour of increasing settler settlements in the West Bank as well as participating in the genocide in Gaza, which anticipates the termination of the sui generis Israeli democracy and the establishment of a theocratic regimen the next decade, it will mean that large sectors of Israel’s secular and urban youth must choose to join the list of colonists remotely led by the Haredim or emigrate to the West to escape the theocratic-military dystopia.