It was NOT an Insurrection in America

By Rabbi Dov Fischer August 9, 2021

To call what happened in Washington D.C. on January 6th an Insurrection, is not only preposterous but is an intentional lie.  Lies like these fragment society and impugn national sovereignty.

Israel suffers similarly from the Left’s never-ending false alarms that “our democracy is in danger.” Such mendacity speaks the ultimate forbidden taboo — insurrection — out loud when it has not happened and was not the mind of anyone serious. When you tell enough people that thousands tried a Hitler-style putsch or a Bolshevik-style takeover or military coup, you reduce America’s Constitutional republic and Israel’s own democracy to Haiti, to Zimbabwe, to Arab countries, to Muslim countries, to Communist countries. That is not who America or Israel are, and it is perilous even to suggest otherwise.

In Israel, it is the Left which regularly has trampled democracy. It was the Left who saw a majority of votes in 1992 go to the center and right, yet bought off two right-wing Members of Knesset to pass the historically nightmarish Oslo disaster. Today, three decades later, it is the Israeli Left which carved a government with the votes that had been given to Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked – willing partners – to work for a right-wing and religious government.

These acts of perfidy truly make a mockery of democracy. What is the point in giving people the “democratic” right to choose if, after they choose, an opposite result gets superimposed on the voters anyway?............To Read More....