Many people on the "left" and on the "right" enjoy hating the center, because its opinions are not unequivocal and radical. They take pleasure in despising the center, thus demonstrating contempt for the public at large, seeing as selecting the center is a display of public maturity, based on the understanding that the "era of the clear-cut stance" is over. The truth is that the radicals themselves – the anti-Zionists and the ultra-Zionists – speak exactly in the same language (despite the fact that they interpret things differently).
The political centrists express their mixed standpoint, a little bit of this and little bit of that: both a Jewish and a democratic state. This is a complicated viewpoint, replete with internal paradoxes – but we must remember that the ideological supermarket characterizes many parties today, even Meretz, and it is the formula of democratic rule.
