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Just don't stay home

2020-02-29T23:15:15.166Z


Nadav Shragai


Don't stay home. You who believe that the State of Israel is first and foremost a national home for the Jewish people, and not the state of all its citizens; You, the Likudniks who in April 2019 voted in the ballot box and in September you voted for your feet - and now that you are tired and angry, or indifferent or discouraged - must know that your further absence from the ballot box is not just a protest. It is also an actual vote in favor of who and what you do not want: a government that relies on MKs who are fans of terrorism and the Jewish state's deceivers.

No party and leader expresses exactly their voter preferences, and elections are not a plan as per your request. They are choosing "bad in the minority," in "value." Your further absence from the polling station will increase the relative weight of the joint list, the hidden / visible partner of Labor-Meretz Bridge and white blue, in the total number of votes counted, as well as the power of Lieberman, who removed all the disguises and no longer intends to join the left.

If the hundreds of thousands who voted for Likud in April and for all of us and the new right and identity remain on election day - they will actually increase the power and influence of personalities like Ram Ben Barak, who promised to remove the word "Jewish" from the national law, or Yair Lapid, The praise of the terrorists and Rafi Peretz, a former pilot and military chief, who was deported from Gush Katif and went to blossom the Negev.

Skipping the ballot again could also lead to Israel losing the historic opportunity to set the borders of our country to the east and apply sovereignty to all communities in Judea and Samaria. Gantz and Blue will not do so without wide international agreement. That is, they will not.

There is no math to allow Gantz to form a government without relying on the joint Arab list, one that does not recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and that some of its members understand Palestinian terror and identify with some of its goals.

The dependency that will be created on the joint list is intolerable Zionist and security. It could lead to a veto on military operations in Gaza. It may bring about a renewed study of the Palestinian narrative and the Nakba story in the Meretz-style education system, and it may also bring about the end of the judicial and judicial system reform, in which Ayelet Shaked has begun and needs further empowerment.

On Election Day, members of the "abstention party" remembered the disastrous Oslo, the disengagement that brought us the state of Hamastan and also the damage created by the Barak government with its consent to partition of Jerusalem. It may come back.

Abstaining from voting will increase the relative weight of left-wing parties, raising the prospect of such more promiscuous adventures. So even if Netanyahu and his bloc parties are not your cup of tea - don't stay home again. Avoiding - especially this time - is actually a vote for the rival political camp.

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Source: israelhayom

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