So much has happened lately. Leave, so much has happened in just the last 24 hours. A new president for the United States, a new minister of defense because the previous one, Yoav Galant, was fired in the middle of a war, threats from Iran for the third time, 101 abductees and abductees whose hourglass in captivity is only moving forward while we are here waiting for them, alarms, a promiscuous north, an elite that is not sure what got us excited more than a year ago The new season of ‘Wonderful Country’ opened just like that, in the emptiness we feel every morning, an emptiness that has so much in it and that there is no way we will ever forget it.
due disclosure I previewed the satire of the beginning. Who, like me, a devout viewer of the last two decades, remembers that the previous seasons also started with a boom that made us feel like this in the face. The current opening skit, combined with the mindset, did it again in a big way. On the menu, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s chant of ‘forget’, as he mentions the indigestible amount of omissions, and the countless Israelis who have been forgotten compared to the hope of total victory.
And in a sharp transition, because it’s impossible not to: Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf and Knesset member Aryeh Deri for their opposition to recruiting ultra-Orthodox, the new US president Donald Trump coming out of a McDonald’s potato chip carton, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari, and his director’s version, is he an IDF spokesman “L in Arabic by Avihai Adrei, who always seems a bit more aggressive in his translations, to say the least, and who might be Irena in the version of the spy, the perfume, and the smell of cigarettes. For those who didn’t understand the spin-off, I recommend consuming the full version sponsored by Moti Meman who is accused of spying for Iran. And of course, the couple Netanyahu, Minister Gideon Sa’ar who didn’t understand a year ago how Netanyahu could fire a minister in the middle of a war, and his replacement is Gallant Israel Katz. Of course, the Lexicon also had Sinwar and Nasrallah from the next world, Ness and Stila who had already planned the continuation of the elimination list which turned out to be particularly reliable.
Another skit that made me sad in my heart because there is nothing more accurate than it: Abba Hatzova, a song about a boy and a woman whose father, and her husband, have a virtual relationship with them through the mobile phone because he has been in the reserves for a year. A father who is not really present, and only exists in his rectangular version in the most important events. A father who is a model for far too many fathers now. This skit is a proof of poverty for anyone who opposes serving in the army, and for anyone who believes that we will manage. We’re not, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. As usual, stamp on the pony.
At the end of the show, that famous punch to the stomach came again. And this time to our softest belly. The Prime Minister and his wife are sleeping in their bed, while Netanyahu is having a bad dream. And in his dream, like Joseph’s essay from the stories of the Bible (and Joseph’s genius imitation in ‘The Jews Are Coming’), Hatupa begs Netanyahu to release them already. Because the time has come. The skit ends with his demanding her to be short, and by him reassuring himself that the resurrection is at hand.
It’s fun that ‘Eretz Fahadrah’ is back, always a pure pleasure. And in the same breath, the understanding seeped into me that what is happening here is a bit too much. At least as it seems now. There is probably no solution in sight, despair is not an answer either. What can help? Discovering that we all feel exactly the same, and thanks to yesterday’s ‘wonderful country’, and in general, this distress of the many is more than half a consolation.
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