“If I ask you to take a sentence that begins with the word ‘I made a mistake’, what did you make wrong?”, Roni Cuban turns to Avishi Ben Haim. The propagator of the “first and second Israel” theory stares at an unclear point in space, is speechless for long seconds, then replies with a forced and disgusted smile: “I don’t want to answer that for you.”
This is an amazing moment when Cuban exposed Ben Haim’s bluff and brought a knockout to the man who undoubtedly exacerbated the rift in the nation with a shallow, divisive and clearly unfounded theory. A theory that even if it has a kernel of truth – there was indeed deprivation here for years – was used by him to grant immunity to Aryeh Deri, Binyamin Netanyahu and Co., the main ones responsible for perpetuating oppression and inequality in society.