The latest depressing dispatch from Ynet:
Jews don’t know how to rule. This is clear to anyone observing the Israeli chaos. After all, too much time has passed since Jews were in power, and we completely forgot the meaning of sovereignty and the way to impose order.
Observing the Israeli authorities’ middling response to last week’s Arab-Jewish riots in Akko, Assaf Wohl writes:
Often I ask myself why we cannot just send a regiment of Hebrew mounted police to put Akko in order. Why can’t we dispatch a Zionist platoon to punish the drug dealers in Lod? Or why can’t we construct a small-scale Alcatraz on an island in the Sea of Galilee? Of course we can, we simply don’t want to do it. And what do you mean “why not?” It’s because we’re Jewish. And Jews simply don’t do some things…
We do not have the self-confidence of the kings of Israel or the power of the Hasmoneans. We are much more similar to the customs of the Diaspora Jew, the kind who tells a Yiddish joke when things are really bad, or at most reads some psalms. But, heaven forbid, he will not undertake an overly aggressive act.
Therefore, it is very difficult for us to grasp that we are the ones who are required to exercise power in practice. We have still not internalized the fact that the responsibility for running the Jewish State is exclusively ours, and therefore we shall always keep on hoping that someone will do the dirty work for us.
