They also indulge in overwrought language that he loves, to the point that no one heeds them anymore when a bona fide candidate for those descriptions in fact emerges.
Jerusalem, November 23 - A lad whose propensity for provoking others into frenzied activity through his repeated false alarms, thus undermining his credibility, has taken up with critics of Israel in profligate dispensation of epithets comparing a leading political figure to German fascists, following decades of hurling the same vitriol at Israeli leaders with far less to link them with Hitler's ideology.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, a character from an ancient fable whose story made it into English only in the last several hundred years, expressed his excitement today at finding kindred spirits among Israeli and foreign activists and pundits fond of invoking analogies to Nazis when discussing any Israelis to the political right of Stalin. Those voices, he reveled, also indulge in the same overwrought disaster-is-coming language that he loves, to the point that no one heeds them anymore when a bona fide candidate for those descriptions in fact emerges.
"I've found my people," he gushed. "I've never felt more at home."
The boy noted his particular appreciation for the consistency of his newfound colleagues in applying the same intensity and vitriol to diverse figures outside the Israeli Left. "Whether it's Begin Netanyahu, Sharon, or someone with not quite as much influence," he explained, "they give it their all. There could be some guy of marginal importance somewhere in Israeli politics, and my crew will seize on the more extreme elements of that person's rhetoric, ideology, or associations, and declare in serious tones that they 'can identify processes' that remind them of Nazi Germany in the 1930's. Others will just yell. Either way, this is fantastic. This is my place."
"I also like the way the Left holds near-total control of the culture and its institutions, but warns of impending fascism from the Right," he continued. "And that's not just in Israel. It's gotten to the point that the 'counterculture' and disdain for traditional institutions and values have achieved cultural hegemony but they still insist they carry the mantle of the underdog. The risk of fascism taking over is now more likely to come from the Left, because of the fear they stoke about fascism from the Right. theirs is a self-fulfilling prophecy in a way and to a depth that I was never able to engineer. It was basically a matter of luck in my case whether an actual wolf would eventually come along - these folks are making the dire future they deplore actually happen, I gotta hand it to them."