[Finance Minister Netanyahu's economic program is being challenged by Vicky Knafo, a "single parent mother", who has made a protest march to Jerusalem against cuts in social benefits. Her march has received extensive media coverage in Israel.]
Perhaps someone can explain to me what a single parent mother is? A single parent family? I never encountered this term before the last decade. At one time, everything was far simpler. There was a family, consisting of a father, a mother, and their children. This was the natural and correct state of affairs. There were, of course, exceptions to this. There were widows, divorc?es, and other less respectable women. But all these situations were relative to the simple, natural, and proper framework - the family in which there is a father and a mother, who are jointly responsible for bringing up their children.
Until the thought police of the Left came along and confused everything for us.
The family is the foundation stone of the nation. What can destroy the nation more than removing the meaning of the concept of the family? The destruction of nationality is the primary aspiration of every progressive liberal (as in John Lennon's ?Imagine?). This is even more true in the case of Jewish nationality (as in Shimon Peres' New Middle East).
So, how it is possible to destroy the family without risk? Without being criticized? Without arousing public resistance? The answer is: everything is a family.
The post-modernist methodology does not lie, it only says that everything is true: Everyone has his own truth, and now everyone has his own family. Two men or two women are a family, a single woman or a single man is a family, and the children who have become part of this sorry state are children in a family - a single parent family.
From the social aspect, the real victims are the widows and the divorc?es who for objective reasons couldn't preserve the framework of their marriage. Is it right to compare a widow left to look after her children with a woman who, of her own free will, chose to give birth to children without a father? Is it right to compare a divorc?e and her children with an irresponsible woman who chose to make her children orphans? All of them have been put into the same category by the thought police and are now referred to as ?single parent families?. I have a neighbor whose wife was murdered by Arab terrorists on her way to the settlement. He has also been put in the same category as those other women and defined as a single parent family.
Now, matters advance rapidly to the next stage. After overcoming the difficulties of the language and introducing the term ?single parent family?, the next objective is public awareness. The media are full of this, and without understanding the significance of the issue, the poor nation swallows this sweetened poison.
It now only remains to gather up the fruits of victory. This is now the job of the industrious MKs of the Left, who are, as usual, joined by high-minded MKs of the Right, such as Zvulun Orlev from the Mafdal (NRP). If every woman who chooses to give birth outside the marital framework is a family, then she deserves all the benefits of a family. In fact, she deserves even more, because she's not just a family, but a wretched one. In this way, the strength of the Left combines with the strength of the wretched.
We have thus reached a situation in which properly married couples are contracting a fictitious divorce and continuing to live together in an unmarried state, in order to enjoy the benefits of a single parent family. The number of single parent families in Israel has increased by 500% over the last ten years.
But all's well that ends well. The main thing is that we have destroyed the concept of the family, given social legitimacy to any other form of life outside marriage, prevented many new homes being set up in Israel and, finally, we have encouraged divorces of good families and the splitting up of homes that have already been established. What will remain in future generations of the magnificent national tree after the worms have attacked it? This is of interest to no-one - the cameras are now directed at Vicky Knafo.
Of course, everything said above does not apply to the obligation of Israeli society towards widows, orphans, and women who were forced to leave their husbands after honest attempts to bring up a family together. However, those women who chose to give birth without a father have deliberately brought orphans into the world - having no father and only an irresponsible mother. Now, these same women want to transfer to society the responsibility for their actions. One cannot blame them - they are the result of our enlightened society. But perhaps the solution lies in adoption by a real, two-parent, family.
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Moshe Feiglin is head of the Manhigut Yehudit faction in the Likud party and a former prime ministerial candidate.
Perhaps someone can explain to me what a single parent mother is? A single parent family? I never encountered this term before the last decade. At one time, everything was far simpler. There was a family, consisting of a father, a mother, and their children. This was the natural and correct state of affairs. There were, of course, exceptions to this. There were widows, divorc?es, and other less respectable women. But all these situations were relative to the simple, natural, and proper framework - the family in which there is a father and a mother, who are jointly responsible for bringing up their children.
Until the thought police of the Left came along and confused everything for us.
The family is the foundation stone of the nation. What can destroy the nation more than removing the meaning of the concept of the family? The destruction of nationality is the primary aspiration of every progressive liberal (as in John Lennon's ?Imagine?). This is even more true in the case of Jewish nationality (as in Shimon Peres' New Middle East).
So, how it is possible to destroy the family without risk? Without being criticized? Without arousing public resistance? The answer is: everything is a family.
The post-modernist methodology does not lie, it only says that everything is true: Everyone has his own truth, and now everyone has his own family. Two men or two women are a family, a single woman or a single man is a family, and the children who have become part of this sorry state are children in a family - a single parent family.
From the social aspect, the real victims are the widows and the divorc?es who for objective reasons couldn't preserve the framework of their marriage. Is it right to compare a widow left to look after her children with a woman who, of her own free will, chose to give birth to children without a father? Is it right to compare a divorc?e and her children with an irresponsible woman who chose to make her children orphans? All of them have been put into the same category by the thought police and are now referred to as ?single parent families?. I have a neighbor whose wife was murdered by Arab terrorists on her way to the settlement. He has also been put in the same category as those other women and defined as a single parent family.
Now, matters advance rapidly to the next stage. After overcoming the difficulties of the language and introducing the term ?single parent family?, the next objective is public awareness. The media are full of this, and without understanding the significance of the issue, the poor nation swallows this sweetened poison.
It now only remains to gather up the fruits of victory. This is now the job of the industrious MKs of the Left, who are, as usual, joined by high-minded MKs of the Right, such as Zvulun Orlev from the Mafdal (NRP). If every woman who chooses to give birth outside the marital framework is a family, then she deserves all the benefits of a family. In fact, she deserves even more, because she's not just a family, but a wretched one. In this way, the strength of the Left combines with the strength of the wretched.
We have thus reached a situation in which properly married couples are contracting a fictitious divorce and continuing to live together in an unmarried state, in order to enjoy the benefits of a single parent family. The number of single parent families in Israel has increased by 500% over the last ten years.
But all's well that ends well. The main thing is that we have destroyed the concept of the family, given social legitimacy to any other form of life outside marriage, prevented many new homes being set up in Israel and, finally, we have encouraged divorces of good families and the splitting up of homes that have already been established. What will remain in future generations of the magnificent national tree after the worms have attacked it? This is of interest to no-one - the cameras are now directed at Vicky Knafo.
Of course, everything said above does not apply to the obligation of Israeli society towards widows, orphans, and women who were forced to leave their husbands after honest attempts to bring up a family together. However, those women who chose to give birth without a father have deliberately brought orphans into the world - having no father and only an irresponsible mother. Now, these same women want to transfer to society the responsibility for their actions. One cannot blame them - they are the result of our enlightened society. But perhaps the solution lies in adoption by a real, two-parent, family.
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Moshe Feiglin is head of the Manhigut Yehudit faction in the Likud party and a former prime ministerial candidate.