Upcoming Israeli Elections: What’s the Point?

A book I read once by Victor Frankl, a Viennese psychologist who survived Nazi concentration camps, said that people who had a purpose in their lives were much more resilient in the face of suffering, adversity and privation than those who didn’t.

As the fumes from the various campaigns leading into the Israeli election leak slowly into my field of awareness, I’m struck by the fact that none of the major parties seem to represent any sort of vision or idea of a national purpose.

I mean, if you were to ask Bibi, Ganz, Yaalon, Gabai, etc-”why are we Jews here? What are we here to do? Why do we need this country?”-they would probably mumble something about the Holocaust, never again, etc.

Maximum, they’d mouth something about being a Light Unto the Nations, which in our current context I guess means being really nice to sexual degenerates and the Druze, while simultaneously selling high grade weapons to every shithole country in the world.

The election discourse I’m hearing ranges from “urgh, Likud STRONG!” to “we’ll give all you losers free money if you vote for us.” I assume Lapid is doing his whole “if not for the Haredi and settler parasites, you’d all be rich” thing again, and Evet is promising Russian retirees from Rishon that if he becomes the Defense Minister, Ismail Haniyeh will be dead in 48 seconds, but haven’t heard their spiels.

The whole thing reminds me of a giant oak that falls over one day, and you see that the inside is hollow. Meaning, I see sudden and rapid changes in the political and moral landscape on the horizon. A nation with no purpose can’t exist in the face of adversity, and God promised us both adversity and continued existence, so I assume a purpose will emerge into the national consciousness.