Orich and Feldstein
King Claudius in this case is the reigning chief of the Israeli Secret Service, the man most responsible for the disaster of Oct. 7, who is still running the service with no apologies. Just this single fact is enough for the casual observer to understand how dysfunctional certain aspects of Israeli society are.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Why would I, or anyone else for that matter, identify with Rozencrantz and Guildenstern…er, Orich and Feldstein? It is because of who they are. They are the poor saps who got caught with their hands in the Qatari cookie jar. Allegedly. Now that jar has fingerprints of some heavy hitters in Israel who had backed-in semi-trailers for their fair share but were long gone by the time someone (Lady MacBeth at the attorney general’s office) decided to put the lid back on the jar. Cue the police sirens and spotlights on the two poor souls standing there holding a couple of crumbling cookies. They are pointing towards the fast-fading sound of the long haulers shifting into eighteenth gear. Claudius, er…Prospero waves his wand, and no-one hears the trucks make their getaway. Everyone wants to hear from Orich and Feldstein, but that is an impossible task, because they were thrown into the dark pits of the Israeli Secret Service with no legal representation or family visits, and Lady MacBeth made sure that there was a gag-order in place. And that is the reason everyone wants to hear from them, or about them. Where there is smoke there must be fire, correct? That, my friends, is the power of the Secret Service. They can bury you alive.
And we know, do we not, that there but for the grace of G-d go you and I, the perennial last in line. As I write this, I feel the heat of those spotlights and I can almost hear: “Step away from the jar! Drop those cookies!” The rest of us. Last in line. Following the rules until someone changes them willy-nilly in the middle of the game, then enduring white-collar torture until we betray our best friends.
Read all about it here.
That's the American contingent, evidently. There is an Israeli counterpart who partook of those Qatari big bucks. That is more concerning to me.
This is evident to many, if not the majority of Israelis. The Oct 7th massacres and war forced upon us has removed many masks. Those who are still unable to see what is going on are brainwashed by the very mistaken concept of land for peace, or they are somehow allowing themselves to benefit from the qatari's gargantuan ultimate plan of world sharia islamist conquest through corruption.
Of those, our ancient sages tell us: למינים ולמלשינים אל תהי תקווה