Since the protests against the legal revolution began last year, Prof. Shakma Bresler quickly became one of the leaders of the protest, and a symbol of the demonstrations against the government. Despite all these in the last few months, and in the shadow of the stormy week, her voice is hardly heard.
Last night (Friday), Bresler arrived at Opira and Levinson, and shared the change she underwent on and after October 7. “No one is the same person, I at least want to believe. I got up early in the morning to a phone call that shook our whole house and devoured the cards,” she said. “Like many people, I hoped that the government would take responsibility and announce elections. My and the general public’s ripening is at hand, it is increasing by the minute. The people in the streets are the pillar of fire before the camp.”
where were you on monday night
“At home. I was not at the demonstration because I think something happened on October 7. I am convinced that Israel must go to the elections after this failure and all the years that preceded it. The country must go to the elections so that the government will get back a mandate from the people. There is a process of maturation that needs to happen, a war broke out It is not true to claim that I was the pillar of fire of the demonstrations, there were people who raised the flag in front of me.”
Now that you’re back on the streets, don’t you think it’s right to come too?
“I visit all the time, even if I’m not in the spotlight, and I can say for sure that it’s in my heart. 2.2 million people came out in the last year, and that’s just the promo.”
The right and Netanyahu’s emissaries ran an ugly personal campaign against you, tried to scare you?
“did not succeed”.
So why don’t you go back to the protests?
“Regarding Kaplan, I will decide from week to week. The dilemma that is always with me is a dilemma shared by many in the State of Israel. People understand that without a broad public demand, the government will not do the right thing and return the mandate to the people. I will come at the right moment.”
What will keep you coming back?
“I am constantly between here and there. What I want to feel for myself is that we are doing this thing that will eventually bring about change. I am here to perhaps connect with the public who feel the same way as I do. Duality is difficult, difficult during wartime, when there are kidnapped and displaced persons, there is difficulty. The war of the kidnapped families is inspiring. The second they are called I will come, the whole country will come.”
“The war of the kidnapped families inspires” | Photo: Mirim Alister, Flash 90
In the interview, Bresler also referred to a segment from Channel 14 where Natalie Dadon was invited to the range with a toy gun, and the presenter of the program, Noam Fathi, told her to think she was seeing Shekama Bresler. “The first motivation is not to react to such things. What has happened recently is that I have learned the material. We must not be silent, we must react, the story that one of us who wants to be normal here raises his head and then drops poison machines of this type on him to terrorize him is over,” she said. “I am very proud of the reaction of the normal public, the way they reacted to this video and opposed it.”
Does the incitement make you avoid going back to demonstrations?
“Like the entire public in the country, I also understand that this government will not go anywhere without there being a proper public response to this matter. We waited, we hoped, I hoped too but I stopped. I can’t say now exactly how it will look, but it is clear to everyone around me: citizens Israel understands that this government will not take responsibility and will not return the mandate to the public without a broad public protest. We are ahead of a very difficult holiday period, there will be pain and difficulty. All of us in various circles have known people, and after the holidays I don’t see any situation that the public will not come out and demand the change.”
At the end of her speech, she referred to her political future. “We influence the Knesset, but as a democratic public we want to, when we do not understand that if we are not there even the day after they do what is needed, we will not get what is needed. It is our job as citizens to understand that things will not be resolved and the State of Israel will not get on the right track without us going out and taking responsibility into our own hands “.
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