Far-Left Baffled Why People Hate Them For Siding With Enemy

Gal-On called the thinking of the non-Left “mysterious.”

Tel Aviv, November 12 – Leaders of Israel’s extreme political left wing expressed puzzlement today over the rest of the society’s animosity toward them for calling the EU decision to label products from outside the Green Line a positive development.

Yariv Oppenheimer of Peace Now, and Udi Selfhater of Yesh Gvul, two prominent activists on the Israeli Left, told reporters today they never understood why taking the same position as Israel’s bitterest opponents on almost every issue might make other Israelis upset at them. The two spoke at a press conference where Mr. Oppenheimer praised the EU decision, saying, against all evidence of precedent, that it would make Israel stronger.

“This is a helpful move, because it gives Israel another reason to dismantle settlements and establish firm borders,” he said, either forgetting or dismissing the disastrous outcome of the 2005 Gaza Disengagement. “And I just don’t get why saying such a thing, which promotes a policy that would encourage the Palestinians to maintain their intransigence and violence in hopes of further concessions, should provoke anger or hate against me or my ideological peers by the rest of the country.”

“I would think that statements by Palestinian leaders disappointed by the move would be enough to indicate that it is good for Israel,” added Meretz Chairwoman Zehava Gal-On. “Saeb Erekat, for example, said the decision falls far short of what he wants, which is an all-out economic boycott of Israel. Shouldn’t the fact that Erekat doesn’t like it a hundred percent convince the right wing to get behind it?” Gal-On called the thinking of the non-Left “mysterious.”

Experts have no conclusive explanation for the phenomenon, but offered several hypotheses. “It may well be that people outside the Left simply lack the mental capacity to judge what is right,” offered Meretz MK Ilan Gilon. “I mean, aside from being human smegma, they might  be genuinely stupid, so they don’t know what’s good for them. Anybody with a brain knows what’s good is to cut ourselves off from our ancestral homeland and holy sites, do what the congenitally antisemitic Europeans want, and put ourselves at the mercy of whatever regime eventually takes root in the areas we abandon.” He added that they were also so manifestly unintelligent that they wouldn’t even realize he was speaking ill of them, so his words would likely not have any electoral consequences – and anyway, only Haaretz would report what he says, and right-wingers are too stupid to read Haaretz.

Others disagreed, noting that many right-wingers appear to be intelligent, functioning members of society, if uniformly supportive of genocide and racism. “My guess would be that they’re just blind to the injustice of Jewish sovereignty,” said MK Jamal Zahalke of the Joint List. “Unlike the Europeans, who were very careful for many centuries not to allow such a thing to happen.”