“We don’t make deals with Satan.” In Kyria, a man chants into a megaphone “We don’t make deals with Satan.” In front of the government complex, children, wearing kippahs and papillotes, color signs to the glory of the IDF. On the other side of the street, there are twice as many demanding the return of the hostages “NOW”. This is the perspective of the majority of Israelis, and the one that will win Tuesday evening in the government debates, even if they will last longer than expected. Jewish supremacist parties, which publicly oppose the agreement, have only six seats out of 37 in the government. Even if they manage to attract the votes of the right wing of Likud, and certain ultra-religious people, that will probably not be enough.
But more than ever, around this quasi-existential debate, we see the ideological divisions that divide Israel emerge. Meytal’s neighbor, Alice, is convinced that she is part of the silent majority. “Do you hear the noise from those across the street? It is the same noise as the demonstrations against judicial reform. They only represent forty families, at most” said the young woman, piercing blue eyes that see even further. “The problem is post-modernism, which wants us to save ourselves first. But that’s not us, not us Jews, she says. We are the eternal people. If we think as a nation, and not as individuals, this agreement makes no sense.