Machiavellianism, the Israeli Simulacra, and the Reign of Perpetual Division

In recent years, Israel's reality has increasingly become detached from itself. Every week seems to usher in a new public storm — a burning issue that divides the nation into binary camps: left vs. right, the Supreme Court vs. the government, the Hosthages vs. Victory, conservatives vs. liberals. But as time goes on, the sense deepens that something doesn’t add up — that something is too simetric, choreographed, orchestrated, managed. Not just mismanaged — deliberately designed.

This isn't just the classic "divide and conquer" conspiracy narrative.something far more refined - An architecture of language-power that manipulates public reality through reccuring false dichotomies. The main purpose is to distract the masses from the true struggle: the one between the people's healthy need to live and prosper and a narrow, well-organized cyncial elite — far more collaborative than it appears on the surface.

Behind the Curtain: Three Power Branches, One Mutual Interest

The Israeli public is led to believe that the major power struggles are authentic and take place between independent institutions. In reality, however, these factions have been coordinating and sharing control in a carefully balanced arrangement since the 1990s, managed by three dominant forces

It is clear that the most corrupt give-and-take relationships occur between the civilian branches — the Likud party and the judicial system. However, the security apparatuses, fully aware of this arrangement, also play a complementary role in enforcing the artificial balance between that same Likud and that same judicial system — a balance without which the entire structure could not sustain itself under normal circumstances

All three present themselves as mediators, or rivals, with the core argument that they protect the interest of Israel as a whole — yet in truth, they work together to sustain a shared system where each has its own media ecosystem, dedicated journalists, and even its own curated enemies — all part of the performance .

Engineered Consciousness: The Public as Actors in a Script They Didn't Write

The average citizen is essentially cast in a play they didn’t audition for. Week after week, we are forced to take sides in headline crises where one or more of the three is the main actor — as if we are facing grand moral dilemmas — when in reality, these are little more than strategic distractions, designed to keep us busy, noisy, and emotionally invested.

Enter a critical concept we must import into the Israeli discourse: simulacrum.

Coined by philosopher Jean Baudrillard, a simulacrum is a representation of reality that gradually replaces reality itself. The media, institutions, and public figures no longer reflect what's happening — they construct what we believe is happening - and that's how they manufacture afreed upon narratives and events.

It's not that these actors never surprise one another — sometimes one uses the media as a smokescreen for a calculated unilateral move.. But in the end, as you already know, there’s always a compromise.

In that sence Israel doesn’t exist in a reality. It lives in a political reality show.

Every Week, a New Crisis — Every Day, a New Binary

The mechanism is simple, repetitive, and stunningly effective. Every week brings a new firestorm — and you must pick a side:

Meanwhile, the truly existential questions are pushed out of the frame:

Failing to See the Obvious

The public is so caught up in this endless loop of scandals, pseudo-crises, and binary debates — that there's no time to pause, breathe, or zoom out. No time to question systems. No time to analyze power structures. No time to realize the most basic truth:

Bibist Machiavellianism: Control Through Perpetual, Scripted Conflict

This is not control through brute force. It is not pure evil. It is a refined, modernized Machiavellianism — where dominance is maintained not through repression, but through mental fragmentation.

Netanyahu himself is not the origin of this model — he is simply its most effective avatar. In this system, the leader doesn’t offer solutions — he manufactures problems. And when you control the problems — you control the narrative.

What ultimately sustains the rule of these manipulative systems is, first and foremost, the consent of the governed — and above all, the power of the security apparatuses and the media. The security forces possess the physical power, which is vocalized and legitimized through the media. In return, the media receives exclusive access to the narrative of those who wield the weapons.

It is precisely this security–media relationship that creates the platform through which the other branches are able to insert their own narratives from above.

So what now?

First — we stop. We refuse to argue inside someone else’s script. We begin to recognize patterns, repetitions, simulacra. We reject the fake questions — and start asking the real ones.

Not "for or against". But rather: Why is this the question right now? And who profits from us asking it?