Israel is in psychosis; The State Cannot Distinguish Between Life and Death
Israel's police commissioner Dani Levy’s statement was not a slip of the tongue but a glimpse into the Israeli consciousness of 2026. A state that releases murderers for coffins, risks soldiers for bodies, and declares victory while handing the keys back to Hamas is a state that has lost its grip on reality.
When Israel Police Commissioner Dani Levy calls a bereaved father and tells him "you are receiving your son just as he left," he is not merely making a phrasing error. He is reflecting, with chilling clarity, the national psychosis we have entered. For the system, the difference between the living Ran Gvili who left home and the dead Ran Gvili returned in a coffin is negligible. The "goods" were delivered. The line was crossed out. The case is closed.
But this statement is just the tip of the iceberg. It is the symptom of a disease that has been worsening for two and a half years.
The Cult of the Dead and Abandonment of the Living
How did we reach a situation where the boundary between life and death is so blurred? It begins with reckless deals where living murderers are released in exchange for cold bodies. It continues with risking living soldiers, sons of mothers waiting at home, to retrieve corpses from the heart of Gaza. When a state is willing to pay in the currency of life for the currency of death, it sends a message to the collective subconscious: their value is identical.
The Commissioner, as a state figure, simply translated this equation into words: "Just as he left." From his perspective, the mission was accomplished. The "minor" difference, the pulse, the breath, the future, was erased by the need to close the circle and present a victory image.
The Imagined Victory in Gaza
This disease does not stop at the morgues. It seeps right into the war cabinet and the war rooms. Just as the Commissioner does not distinguish between the dead and the living, the Israeli leadership does not distinguish between victory and defeat.
We stand and talk about "Absolute Victory" while on the ground reality laughs in our faces. Hamas, the very enemy we "defeated," is returning to rule the areas we left. We are handing Gaza back to murderers but selling the public a story of heroism.
It is the exact same blindness. Anyone who can look at a corpse and say "he returned just as he left" can look at the return of Hamas to power and say "we won." In both cases, reality is merely a recommendation. The truth is whatever we decide it is.
Devaluation of Life as a Norm
The greatest danger is that lies and deception have become our natural state of being. We have grown accustomed to words not representing facts, but rather wishful thinking or political spin.
When you blur the line between life and death, you necessarily blur the line between right and wrong, between achievement and failure, and between survival and national suicide.
Commissioner Levy did not invent the method, he is just its current victim and our mirror. The State of Israel of 2026 needs to look in this mirror and be horrified. Because if we do not wake up from this delusion and start distinguishing between truth and lies and between life and death, we will discover that our future here is also nothing more than imagination.