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After a shaky year, the Right is flocking to the polls

2020-03-01T21:42:27.656Z


Limor Smimian-demanded


We went through three election campaigns. We were exhausted - but we won. No, not yet in the election itself, but really. In the return of the sober vision of reality.

We got a chance to start over. Do what we didn't do in 1977, 1992, and 1999. Because unlike the '77 revolution, we loosened our feelings of inferiority to the left and realized that a change in the bureaucratic and legal system is no less important than ideological national moves. And unlike in '92, we are unmoved by the attempt to bring us down on the pretext that the right-wing government is being turned down, identifying the "stinking exercise" of the left, and being aware of its own involvement in corruption. And unlike '99, we developed national responsibility, and we realized that it is forbidden to overthrow the right-wing government on the naive whim that salvation will actually come from the left. And above all, we got the opportunity to continue to stick to the good we have had for the last four years. The right-wing government, with the best economic and political achievements the State of Israel has ever known.

But all this did not happen easily. It was an uncomplicated, shaky and undermining year in which the right-wing delegitimization reached new highs. The prime minister is portrayed as the enemy of the state, his voters are subjects, disgusted and "illiterate" and his dark and money-thirsty coalition members star in anti-Semitic ads. This incitement, which has indeed caused us to bend over and over again, sometimes to crack, sometimes to shame, is so much increased that we no longer see it. On the contrary, we woke up, straightened up and stood on our feet, ready for the final battle. We are always proud to protect the soul of our Jewish and democratic state.

Because what started a year ago as another "just not Bibi" exercise turned out to be a systematic campaign for a rewrite of the Declaration of Independence, in which the National Law is repealed, the Law of Return is seen as unequal, and the preferred model is the state of all its citizens. In the new scroll, democracy is no longer the rule of the people, but the inheritance of the thinking man; The voter is right. In the new scroll, the democratic state is subject to one governing system, and the law is subject to interpretation by those sitting on the throne.

And along with the debate over the country's foundations, she returned to the arena as well and beautifully. The left breast was released from the bottle this time earlier than usual, since Rabin was "right" and security before the elections, under the "Likud B" party - and was dragged to Oslo only after Barak changed the party's name to "One Israel" and joined the bridge, and only after winning it became Arafat's recycler at Camp David, and similarly, Olmert ran against Ariel Sharon's photos, and only after the election did Abu Mazen hand over the Western Wall to a napkin. She forgot this time she was still campaigning and was exposed. After Ofer Shalach mentioned the party's support for the disengagement in Judea and Samaria, Gantz changed his support of the century plan with the consent of the Palestinians The international community (ie, opposed it), and Amir Peretz revealed the agreement to establish a minority government with the support of the joint list.

The past year, then, has given us a chance, but a taste, too. An alarming taste of the opposition and the danger that lies - not in the loss of office, but in the end of the road. And the taste is so bitter that we flock to the polls. Flocking, as long as we are homia.

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Source: israelhayom

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