They say that the war is an event, of an order the likes of which we have never known; that it is a wake-up call and that we must rouse ourselves from the political illusions that preceded it; that it requires us to be sober; that while it was not sought, is now necessary; that it started with a traumatic event beyond any context; and its steps must be carefully plotted.

In his article, Yuval Kremnitzer examines these concepts – event, disaster, sobriety – and claims that precisely in the call to disillusion with previous ideologies and adherence to calculated realism hides the danger of the seemingly rational choice that is worst of all. He examines the prevalence of “disastrous realism” on the political discourse in Israel, the position it conveys of the subject, and the impasse it leads to, and asks what is required of us in order to demand an end to the war.

https://doi.org/10.70959/tac.60.2024.3557