The Islamic State’s friends are in trouble di Uri Misgav

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar in 2012.
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 The Islamic State’s friends are in trouble. Days have gone by without another video documenting the decapitation of a hapless Westerner. Like drug addicts, they desperately need their next fix. Yes, the times are troubling. Other issues are making the headlines, like the cost of living and the defense budget. And there’s always the occupation and the settlements. So now the Islamic State’s friends are getting angry. They’re shocked by this organization, but they desperately need it. God only knows what they’d do without the Islamic State, which came out of nowhere like a long-lost childhood friend. Ever since, they’ve been muttering their friend’s name to themselves, quivering. It’s almost as if it were something erotic. It’s best to stay away from the Islamic State’s friends; they’re quick to anger. Their words are caustic. They have no limits; they’re past the point of absurd. Their prime minister accuses the White House of forgetting American values, and their interior minister announces his resignation so he can be there when his baby son takes his first steps. But in the meantime, he wages an all-out war on the Supreme Court. Perhaps influenced by their passions and desires, the Islamic State’s friends seem to have adopted an apocalyptic mind-set. Apocalypse now. If they’re no longer allowed to jail thousands of Africans without trials in a concentration camp (“an open facility”), the country is doomed and the world will end. Some of them have even compared the Supreme Court to the Islamic State. The Islamic State’s friends have appropriated Zionism, patriotism and Israel itself. It’s forbidden to offer criticism, questions or alternatives. Like rabid dogs, they sink their teeth into any kind of opposition or clearheaded logic. Pavlov would have had a great time with them. The defense budget is already humongous and they make absurd demands to increase it? Islamic State. A nuclear submarine costing billions after a weeks-long stalemate with Hamas in Gaza? Islamic State. Continued funding for the settlement and occupation enterprise? Islamic State. Citizens who can’t make ends meet? Islamic State. An entire generation with no hope on the horizon? Islamic State. The Islamic State’s friends have even lost their most basic powers of logic. Benjamin Netanyahu stalks the halls of the United Nations and Congress uttering “ISIS is Hamas and Hamas is ISIS,” and no one stops to ask: “Wait a minute, Mr. Prime Minister. If Hamas is ISIS, why did you leave Gaza without destroying Hamas? And shouldn’t we work out a deal with Muslims more moderate than the Islamic State?” The Islamic State’s friends have no time for any nonsense. They don’t even have time for the Islamic State. They first have to deal with a more terrible enemy: our people in Berlin. Berlin is driving them crazy. Not New York or London, where there are just as many Israelis who have jumped the mother ship. They aren’t fleeing the Islamic State, they’re fleeing its friends and the situation they’ve created. It’s an ironic historical joke, and the Islamic State’s friends are fuming. What have we become that our national pride has been defiled so? How low can we sink? Berlin?! Maybe there’s something to it. But the joke’s on them. They’ll go down as the ones who caused the destruction of the Third Temple. Deep in their hearts, the Islamic State’s friends are terrified. One day they’ll be left alone with the Islamic State.

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