Daphne and Itzik

THE STORY starts with Daphne Leef, an editor of short films, daughter of a composer, unable to rent an apartment in Tel Aviv. She is fed up. She announces on Facebook that she is going to live in a tent on Rothschild Boulevard and asks if anyone will join her.

Some do. Then more. Then even more. In no time, there are more than a hundred tents on the avenue, one of the oldest in town, a quiet residential neighborhood. Other tent cities spring up all around the country. A mass movement has come into being. Last Saturday, 350 thousand people demonstrated in Tel Aviv, 450 thousand throughout the country. That would be something like 18 million in the US, or three million in Germany.

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The Return of the Generals

AT THE beginning of the week, Binyamin Netanyahu was desperately looking for a way out of an escalating internal crisis. The social protest movement was gathering momentum and posing a growing danger to his government.

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Eingeflößtes Gedächtnis

SEIT MEHREREN Wochen befinden sich unsere Armee und Marine in einem hohen Alarmzustand, um tapfer eine tödliche Bedrohung unserer bloßen Existenz zu verhindern: zehn kleine Boote versuchen, Gaza zu erreichen. In den Booten sitzt eine gefährliche Bande bösartiger Terroristen, in Person älterer Veteranen aus Friedenskampagnen bestehend.
Binyamin Netanyahu hat unsere unerschütterliche Entschlossenheit, unser Land zu verteidigen, bestätigt: Wir werden niemanden die Blockade brechen lassen, um Raketen zu den Terroristen in Gaza zu schmuggeln, die sie dann abfeuern, um unsere unschuldigen Kinder zu töten.

Dies ist sogar für Netanyahu eine Art Rekordleistung: kein einziges Wort ist wahr.

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Instilled Memory

FOR SEVERAL weeks now, our army and navy have been in a state of high alert, bravely facing a deadly threat to our very existence: ten little boats trying to reach Gaza. These vessels are carrying a dangerous gang of vicious terrorists, in the form of elderly veterans of peace campaigns.

Binyamin Netanyahu has affirmed our unshakable determination to defend our country: We shall not let anyone break the blockade to smuggle rockets to the terrorists in Gaza, who will then launch them to kill our innocent children.

This is a kind of record even for Netanyahu: not a single word is true.

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