Nitzan Weisberg: There was coercion Israel timeNitzan Weisberg: There was coercion Israel time

Nitzan Weisberg: There was coercion Israel time

The idea that history has a tendency to repeat itself is at least 2,500 years old and probably originates from the “History of the Peloponnesian War” written by Methodydes. Mark Twain humorously claimed that history does not repeat itself but it sometimes rhymes. Whether we believe that this is a deterministic loop over which we have no control or a tendency that awareness and political involvement may minimize its damage, how we remember history has future importance.

Therefore, it is important for me to write sharply and clearly: during the Corona period, there was coercion here.

I have no desire to determine whether the forcing of an issue was justified from a purely epidemiological point of view or not. I assume that in the coming years we will see published studies that hold one way or another. I also have no desire to determine here what were the motives of those who engaged in coercion. I am willing to assume that a significant portion of those who engaged in coercion believed that they were acting from moral motives and not from lust for power or greed or other moral weakness.

Now that we have put these two issues aside, it is important to understand what coercion is in general so that we can recognize it throughout history, throughout the world and when it presents itself in our lives as “there is nothing to do”, a moral order or a law of nature.

It is important to understand what coercion is in order to be able to recognize it throughout history, throughout the world and when it presents itself in our lives as “there is nothing to do”, a moral order or a law of nature

The tendency in our pornographic culture is to understand complex processes through short and extreme scenes. We imagine that the extreme case, the most visual image, is what defines a phenomenon. This is probably why everything including everything reminds us of the Holocaust. But in many fields we have learned to understand that an extreme visual image does not define a phenomenon.