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2019-12-21T21:41:25.817Z


Jacob Bardugo


Likud primaries may turn out to be the flywheel of the March 2020 election. The energy that bursts out of the Likud's hard core may be the flame that will convey the message that the Likud is not only strong, but also the significant change agent in Israeli society. All this, provided the ruling party evacuates the message coming from the territory and learn to reconnect.

The next step after the party elections should be the process of upgrading the list, and this should be done through internal elections. However, if that fails, the Likud should allow the winner of the primaries to add five to seven new names to the list.

In the hard core of its voters, Likud's situation is stable. On the other hand, he has a problem with the core of the envelope - especially in the liberal-secular sector, which is currently torn between several options: Bennett's new right, Shaked, seemingly a joint home for the religious and secular; Handel corner of Hauser that blended deep into white and lost promise of commitment to distinct national coherence; And Avigdor Lieberman, who made secularism synonymous with blatant anti-Haredi. What characterizes these three alternatives is their elitist-white character; These are parties with a wink to middle-class based groups.

It must be honestly acknowledged that the Likud ceases to be perceived as a solution in these contexts, and as it learns to return to the territory as a second lesson, so should it be renewed in its human capital. The Likud must bring right-wing voters and the National Camp together with names and names that will become the Kahlonis and the Oshanas, prominent new figures - senior officers, leading industrial and economic figures, as well as media people the general public can connect with. These will signal to the National Camp voters that the Likud is still a party of solutions and moves. A party of action, and not a two-thirds blank page of Gantz, of a constructive economy and a rule of law to fix the systems in a determined way - rather than a surrender to the Blue and White Deep State.

Geula Cohen, from whom we broke up this week, used to say: In Tel Aviv life, Jerusalem understands why. The Likud won election campaigns because he knew how to connect "life" with "why." The Likud must speak to this public - rightists with a more liberal-secular orientation, being the only bridge to the ultra-Orthodox and to religious Zionism.

In the face of Handelman's arrogance and Lieberman's incitement, the Likud must put up a contain and embrace system. It doesn't have to come at the expense of liberal principles, but it has to happen. And, by the way, a hug, the Ethiopian immigrant community, which for years has supported the Likud, should be brought back to the center of the Likud discourse.

If the Likud wants to continue to dictate its political agenda, it must continue its connection to the territory, lead a renewal of the list, and create a plan that will reconnect the people of Haim with the "why" and set a new bridge between liberal and free Israel to Jewish Israel. But all of this could only happen on one condition: the Likud will run the marathon until March 2 with the same energy he ran this week in the 100-meter sprint.

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Source: israelhayom

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