Mr Netanyahu, I feel ashamed

I received recently a direct message to me, from you.
I don’t know you personnaly.
I suppose that my name is part of a file used to win votes in next election.
As the trend is now to use marketing method to individualize politic argumentation.
But, as politics is a community matter, I prefer to share my reaction to your personnal message with my fellow citizens. This is it : I feel ashamed

I feel ashamed in the name of Israel democracy. Yes, Israel is a democratic state. But your political action is more and more distorting it. Probably more for electoralist alliances than for intimate conviction, you bring this democracy close to the autorative, populist democracies which are flourishing in the East European states.

I feel ashamed, in the name of the minorities in Israel. You confirmed clearly in your last declaration that the status you assigned to those minorities is different from the status of Israeli Jews. This difference being based upon difference of religious appartenance, is in itself a negation of the basic humanity principle : all men are equal, out of religion, gender, colour and condition.

I feel ashamed in front of the hypocrisy, consisting in declaring the minorities populations being citizens of the state, together with declaring that this country is only for the Jews. I feel ashamed when arabic language is downgraded to a second class national language.

I feel ashamed in the name of Zionism. Theodore Hertzl defined Israel as a state for the Jews and not a Jewish state. David Ben Gurion confirmed the creation of the Israel as a secular state, assigning Jewish religion to its natural individual role, out of the political field, and introducing faithfulness to Judaism through some traditional signs, as Shabbat, in the public life. The last national law is a treachery regarding the original principles linked to Zionsm.

I feel ashamed in the name of secularism.  When, for electoralist reason, you introduce the more extremist and racist religious party as the next Likoud partner, you re-enforce the deviation that makes religion and religious parties impulsing the main tendancies and orientations of the main governemental decisions.
Giving the education minister to a responsible of a religious party, found its conclusion when introducing a religious approach into a national secular system.

I feel ashamed in the name of justice. As a French-Israeli citizen, I have a deep respect for the independance, the power, of the Israeli Justice and Police authorities and systems. This makes me me all the more ashamed when I see the Minister of Justice attacking them, trying to downgrade the Supreme Court power, distorting the balance between juridic and legislativ power. When I see yourself, criticizing judges and police officers in your personal case, as you should be, by function, their first defender.

I feel ashamed in the name of ethics. I know, through personnal experience in France and in Algeria, that an occupation army becomes automatically unrespectful of moral laws. I know the complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But I know that letting rot the actual situation, conducts inevitably to make Israel being infected by immorality. Immorality through indifference and through action.
I know that illegal immigration is a difficult and a delicate question to treat. But I know that the lack of humanity and the lack of rationality are conducting a country to the worst.
I am ashamed to see Israel democracy being downgraded by loss of ethic obligations.
I know that illegal immigration is a difficult and a delicate question to treat. But I know that the lack of humanity and the lack of rationality are conducting a country to the worst.
I am ashamed to see Israel democracy being downgraded by loss of ethic obligations.

I am ashamed in the name of equality. You probably know better than me, that Israel is at the lowest level of economical equality amongst worldwide nations. In spite of a booming economy and technological development. Which indicates that the social and économical repartition is and becoming each year more inequal.
This inequality is all the more striking that it touches essentially childhood.

I hope now that the next election will help to stop all those  derivatives of Israeli society,  re introduces in the political life of the country, real democracy, respect of minorities, fidelity to Zionism principles, application of secularism, defence of justice, return to ethics, re conquest for equality and make me feel again proud to be Israeli/French.

With all respect,
Jonathan

Jonathan is the writer name for an Israeli/French citizen, living in israel for 6 years.