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Just before the speeches and intimidation begin, we must remember and not forget: the people we call "elected officials" decided last night, to take billions and spend them on their annual party


2022 Election: The unbearable ease of contempt for our money

Just before the speeches and intimidations, self-compliments and threats begin, we must remember and not forget: the people we call "elected officials" last night decided, cynically, to take billions that could change the lives of hundreds of thousands - and waste them on what became their annual party.

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Nir Kipnis

21/06/2022

Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 08:41 Updated: 09:06

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While the citizens of Israel are staring blankly at the deteriorating relationship between their salary and its purchasing power, there is one group that not only is not harmed, but continues to celebrate even more.



Her friends' next party will raise billions that could save patients with serious illnesses, improve the quality of life of children with special needs, do good to hundreds of thousands of elderly people, most of whom are insulting old age, save women from violence or better reward IDF combat units



. The role of those elected officials. How did Prime Minister



Ehud

Olmert once say he has not yet been convicted? "This is my workplace."

All this in fine words, but in the current Knesset, it seems, the shame has also disappeared.

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The money that could have changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens will be spent on the annual party of elected officials (Photo: Reuven Castro)

There is no initiative, there is only incitement

It is easy to divert the fire in the

direction of the unfortunate statements of Miri Regev and Yuval Steinitz, who deny concern for soldiers, rape victims, the elderly, the disabled and Holocaust survivors, in the name of the need to return to the ministers' offices.

It is easy to divert



the fire

to the ultra-Orthodox: it is known that they do not serve in the IDF, participate in the labor force only in part - and ask for budgets to raise far more children than a secular citizen can ever afford to give birth to (knowing he can not finance them properly).



The fire in the

direction of the kibbutzniks, who do not like the residents of the nearby settlements to come and bathe in the bend of the stream that they lovingly nurtured and protected, in their opinion, with blood - as if the surrounding residents who served on the kibbutz gate served in foreign armies



.

Towards the settlers, who in the name of a seemingly extremist ideology, which is not only acceptable to the "world" but also to most of the residents of the State of Israel, employ the security forces - and further confront those who risk their lives to protect them.



It is very easy to quarrel, what is more, the useful idiot will always be found, call him, say - David Amsalem or Yair Golan, who in one statement will send the ballot not necessarily to his potential voters, but mainly to his opponents, even they swore to take advantage of election day to go To the sea (at the end of October still pleasant on the beach).



Because they know this well: the harder it is to convince Israelis to choose someone or something, the easier it is to convince them who not to choose.

And the ostensibly elected (ostensibly, because whoever manages to say from memory - whoever took 15th place on the Likud lists or has a future for the current Knesset, will win the award) knows this:



We have not yet managed to digest the dissolution of the Knesset and the intimidation has already begun: Netanyahu's opponents are terrorizing us with Itamar Ben Gvir, his fans with Ahmad Tibi.

It would have been funny if only a week ago those who feared Kahanists had voted in favor of applying emergency laws to the settlements, while those who feared the West voted against them.

Just before the circus begins, remember that none of the 120 "elected officials" whose heart beats every time he passes the credit card at the supermarket checkout (Photo: ShutterStock)

Housing is a designer's name

Bizarrely, this mambo-jumbo from people we would not buy mangoes from for NIS 70 per kilo, somehow manages to bring the citizens of Israel to the polls (in high percentages) every time again.

This is despite the fact that what really interests us is not in the Israeli-Arab conflict (which is resolved - or rather, in the inability to resolve it in our generation - about 80% of those who have not yet fallen to the margins), but how much it costs us to move the cart with the weekly purchase at the supermarket , Or soaring housing prices.

For our elected officials, "housing" is a designer's name.



It is true that the leaders of this government can claim that the economic situation is the result of a global crisis.

They are right of course, only that when they talk about the fantastic growth of 2021 for example (a year that was divided almost equally between two governments), they forget to say that it too was dependent on global variables.

In other words: more luck (or bad luck) than intelligence.



Fate wanted and Israel's economic situation is better than that of most countries in the world, including countries we are used to looking up to with longing.

What it means?

That in the public coffers huge sums have accumulated.



The government may decide to use them to alleviate the growing plight of more and more Israelis to finish the month (a small example: further reducing the excise tax on fuel, which goes beyond the immediate effect it has on the amount paid for a full tank, also has a horizontal effect on reducing costs Production and transportation).



It can also, of course, decide the complete opposite: to appreciate that the global crisis is with us in order to stay - and save money for a day that will be not only gloomy, but downright gloomy.

What she can not do is spend the billions on another election festival.

Lapid and Netanyahu.

One of them will laugh at our expense (Photo: Flash 90, Olbia Fitoussi)

The joke at our expense

Soon they will hear a lot of nice words about the great intentions of those who ask for our voice and in front of them will also hear words of incitement against the political opponent, the one who only yesterday laughed at the buffet and planned how to appoint each other to key positions.

A little tip from us: Do not believe a single word that comes out of their mouths.



If we reduce the controversy to the two contenders for the crown, then Netanyahu had the longest period of time given to the Israeli prime minister to bring about changes and reforms.

He chose to focus all his desires on his political survival, ostensibly for our sake and in fact at our expense.



Yair Lapid, who married to the throne (initially as the main bridegroom in the formation of the "government of change" and probably also as interim prime minister until the upcoming elections), also expressed disgust at the "national emergency government" Spent only five minutes as an alternate prime minister before passing the Norwegian law that introduced the pain of every sin.



He promised change and brought mostly imitation (and he did not invent anything: what are Miri Regev's "to the government we have chosen" speeches, if not the old Mapai hymns, which treated the public service as a job placement company for "our friends"?)



. I have a small request for you: Just before it all begins, remember the cynicism, shamelessness, pretentiousness and arrogance.Remember



that not a single public figure whose heart beats when he passes the credit card at the checkout, for fear that the credit card company will not honor the charge



. Choose one public that does not know where to raise the necessary amount for the next payment of the rising



rent.Remember that all those people who plan public transportation for us, have not seen a bus from the inside since military service, that the people in charge of our health receive the best care from the greatest experts. Hours on the waiting bench or months waiting for an MRI scan.



Look at the shameless faces of all those people who will tell us in the coming months how good they will be and how terrible the alternative is and remember that these are the people who look at the faces of the sick, the elderly, the soldiers, the women who live in fear, the desperate drivers in the traffic jams. A few more billions on a dumb election that none of us want and with each passing day, at least and less of us care how it is decided.



We saw the Bibi governments, we saw the government just not Bibi and we realized that the only joke that is enjoyed equally on both sides, is the joke at our expense.

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