Update: 450,000 march and Bibi still has no clue

"It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
Quote variously attributed to George Elliot, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and the Talmud among others


OK.  This threatens to get repetitive.  450,000 people show up around the country to demand a better life and Bibi et al. do nothing.  But I can understand that, Benjamin Netanyahu wants you to know that he's a smart, clever, intelligent fellow and if he were to opine on this movement we would know him for what he is.

Here's a clue for you Bibi, because you obviously don't have one.  These protests that you've seen grow from week to week didn't sprout fully formed like one of your wackadoodle foreign policies.  They are the public face of the private resentment we (I'm one of the 450,000) feel after years and years of callous mismanagement of our country.

And they're not about just one thing, be that the price of food, the high rents in the center of the country, or any of a dozen others.  The protests, the marches they all come from a deeper discontent that will not go away with a few words and the appointment of a "blue ribbon committee" to investigate matters.  If it's any relief, Bibi, they're not about you specifically either, so they won't go away when you do (as you surely will).  They're about us, about the country we want for ourselves, and our natural desire to not be taken for suckers.

Now, two possibilities present themselves.  Either Bibi already knows all this and behaves as he does out of sheer malice, or he doesn't know all this (but should) and anything I write here will make no impact on him.

"You can lead a horse's ass to knowledge, but you cannot force him to think."

Quote attributed to Dorothy Parker.