Democracy in IsraeL in Danger!

Lev POSTOLOV

DEMOCRACY IN ISRAEL
IN DANGER!

            "The state must be governed
             not by power-hungry individuals elected by citizens,
             but by professional technocrats."

                SOCRATES, "Discourses on the Republic,"
                (15th century BCE).

            "The end of democracy is tyranny."

                PLATO, "The Republic,"
                (14th century BCE).

             "The people are worthy of their ruler."

                Marquis Joseph de Maistre, philosopher
                French ambassador to the court
                of Emperor Alexander I (in a letter
                dated August 27, 1811 with reflections
                on the new laws of the Russian Empire,
                introduced by Alexander I).

So fate
Perhaps suddenly decided
That something small -
(smaller than
the Lviv region in Ukraine) -
Sate of Israel
Became a clear illustration
Of the three epigraphs placed
Before the first lines
Of this poem.

During the long -
Almost 17-year
rule of Israel
Of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
He selected "for himself" -
(consistently and methodically) -
To the highest echelons
Of the country's governance -
(with the participation of his wife, a professional psychologist, -
and his infant son) -
People based on the principle
Of personal loyalty to him,
And not to the state and the people.

As a result, Benjamin Netanyahu began to feel himself
In the real world, as Prime Minister,
not a servant of the people, -
a senior official
of the country's governing mechanism,
but the First Consul
of the family ruling
Israel Triumvirate, -
"Prime Minister of Israel,
Prime Minister's Spouse
And Infante, son-heir."

Over time,
Civic activity
of the country's voters
As we approach the 80th anniversary of Ben Gurion's
Proclamation of the
Re-establishment, -
(after 2,000 years
since the Exile
into the Diaspora

by the legionary cohorts
of Flavius and Titus in 76 AD
and, finally,
by Hadrian in 137 AD
from the former Roman Province
of Judea, renamed Palestine
by Hadrian, in order to forget
the harsh and uncompromising
five-year resistance
of freedom-loving Jews
to his cohorts, as before
to the cohorts of Flavius and Titus,
of almost all Jews), -

the Jewish Democratic
State,
has fallen to the point
that more than 40 percent
of voters on election days -
Declared Non-Working, -
Bypassing the polling stations,
families rushed out into the countryside
To grill shashlik.

This gave Benjamin Netanyahu, -
a party functionary
of the petty-bourgeois Liberal Party,
the opportunity to
time after time
through crowd manipulation, -
(and, thanks to his talent
 as a political intriguer), -
settle himself almost continuously
for four-year terms
in the Prime Minister's chair.

During the 16 years of this,
almost uninterrupted
reign, -
(which exceeded the total term
 of the premiership of
 the founding fatherof the state –
 Ben Gurion himself), -
Benjamin Netanyahu managed
to form a cohort
of the heads of the security agencies –
the army, intelligence, counterintelligence
and other key ministers
based on the principle
of “loyalty to the King,
not to the kingdom”.

This Team of the sovereign's chosen
Highest Responsible
Security Guards of the country, -
(essentially a besieged military camp
 with a large convoy), -
Since its very birth
Surrounded by
Irreconcilable Muslim enemies
Who for centuries have been unstoppably, -
(with varying success), -
Driven and irresistibly moving
Towards achieving the original
StrategiC Goal of Islam, -
the transformation
of the Planet of Humanity,
the Earth, into a Global
Islamic Caliphate, -
Have learned the Rules of the Game, -
to click their heels in acquiescence
to the words and opinions
of the Prime Minister, -
as orders to act, -
(for the sake of preserving their
 well-paid post), -
Playing along
with the Strategic Concept of
Disinterest-de-Hamas Leadership
imposed on them by the
Prime Minister, -
(which usurped all power
 in neighboring Gaza/Hamasstan), -
In a military clash
with Israel in exchange
for suitcases filled with millions of dollars
from their patron, Qatar,
transported, -
(with the permission of
 the Prime Minister personally
 by his agreement
 with the Government of Qatar), -
they missed the preparations
and slept through the border breach
by a 3,000-strong horde
armed and trained for this, -
(literally "before the eyes"
 of Israeli border
 round-the-clock observers), -
Hamas militants, armed
to the teeth with not only
combat small arms,
but also anti-tank missiles
and RPGs
accompanied by a crowd of thousands
of volunteers from
the "peaceful villagers of Gaza",
which resulted in murder and rape
and In half a day of plunder
More than 1,260 people, -
(from infants to snow-bearded old men),
were exterminated in 22 peaceful villages
in southern Israel.
Former prisoners of Nazi camps
where Jews were exterminated.


Text originale:

Лев ПОСТОЛОВ

ДЕМОКРАТИЯ В ИЗРАИЛЕ
В ОПАСНОСТИ.

    «Государством должны управлять
     не избранные гражданами властолюбцы,
     а технократы-профессионалы».

              СОКРАТ, «Беседы о государстве»,
              (XV-ый век до нашей эры).

    «Конец демократии - тирания».

               ПЛАТОН, Трактат «Государство»,
               (XIV-ый аек до нашей эры).

    «Народ достоин своего правителя».

                Маркиз, Жозеф де МЕСТР, философ и французский посол при дворе
                Императора Александра I-го, (В письме от 27 августа 1811-го
                с размышлениями по поводу новыз Законов Российской Империии,
                вводимых Александром I-ым).
   

Так уж судьба
Наверно вдруг решила,
Что маленькое государство
ИзрАиль, -
(размером меньше,
 Львовской области в Украине),-
Стало наглядной иллюстрацией
К трем, помещенным
Перед первыми строками
Этого стихотворения,
Эпиграфам.

В теченье долгого, -
Почти 17-тилетнего
Правления ИзрАилем
Премьер-Министра
Беньямина НАТАНИЯhУ
Он подбирая «под себя», -
(последовательно и методично), -
В высший эшелон
Управления страной, -
(с участием жены, -
 профессиональног психолога, -
 и инфанта-сына), -
Людей по принципу
Личной преданности ему,
А не государству и народу.

В итоге Беньямин НАТАНИЯhУ
Стал ощущщать себя
В Реале на посту Премьер-Министра
Не слугой народа, -
Высшим чиновником
Механизма управления страной,
А Первым Консулом
Семейного правящего
ИзрАилем Триумвирата, -
«Премьер-Миниситр Израиля,
 Премьерова Супруга
 И инфант, сынок-наследник».

С течением времени
Гражданская активность
Избирателей страны
По мере приближения
К 80-тилетию с момента
Провозглашенья Бен ГУРИОНОМ
Воссоздания, -
(после 2000 лет
 с ИзгнаниЯ
 в РассеяниЕ по миру
 когортами легионеров
 Флавия и Тита  в 76-ом году
 нашей эры и, - в заключенье, -
 Адрианом в 137-ом году
 из бывшей Римской Провинции
 Иудеи, -переименованной Адрианом
 Палестину, чтобы забыть
 о жестком и бескомпромиссном
 5-тилетнем сопротивлении
 свободолюбивых иудеев
 его когортам, как прежде
 когортам Флавия и Тита,
 почти всех евреев), -
Еврейского Демократического
Государства,
Упала до того,
Что больше 40-ка процентов
Избирателей в дни выборов, -
Объявляемых НерабочимИ, -
Минуя Избирательные участки
Мчались семьями на природу
Жарить шашлыки.