How can Gantz offer a recipe for national reconciliation when, even in his own home, he is unable to formulate a consensus on the core divisions? Behind the hidden passwords is deceptive
Before you lead the country - it is best to formulate unity within the party around the core issues. Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz // Photo: Gideon Markovich
The high political, social and economic achievements of the Netanyahu government in the term leading up to the current election year are significantly credited to the conceptual coherence and basic agreement that existed between the coalition partnerships. The 55 block reflected real harmony. Agreeing on state goals is the one that has prompted the government to make decisions, and to elevate the country to a path of cleansing across all levels.
Blue and white is the absolute negative, and that should be said in a clear voice. The inner contradictions in it rise and fall in the one year of existence. Things often come to an extreme absurdity. Every day a different representative from the party comes up to disprove his predecessor's statements. Ram Ben Barak once promised to amend the Nationality Law, and the next day Zvi Hauser declared that the Nationality Law would not be changed. At one time, Yael German declares that we will have to make "a sort of separation" from the Palestinians, and the next day, Yo'az Handel makes it clear that the valley will be annexed immediately.
These are not internal arguments between different shades that belong to a shared worldview. This is not a dispute between two brother streams in the labor movement. These are sharp disagreements, around which the Israeli political debate is being organized for generations. What exactly can the party's chairman, Benny Gantz, offer to Israeli society a recipe for national reconciliation, when within his own party he is unable to formulate a minimum consensus on the issues that party Israeli society?
The idyll that we saw on Saturday night at the end of the campaign cannot cover the rift that has already been revealed: the distress overshadows the utopia. What will happen exactly when this total disagreement reaches the Cabinet table? What decisions can be made under such a sharp ideological polarization? Not only will white blue not be able to bring reconciliation to Israeli society - it will bring the controversies to the table of government, and make the focus of national decision-making a conflict. This is a sure recipe for acute systemic paralysis that will only further aggravate the political crisis. Blue and white will also drag the government, the executive branch on its various bodies, into the political plunder.
This handicap is exacerbated when one considers the partnership: Labor-Bridge-Meretz, on the one hand, and Lieberman, on the other - all under the dependency on the joint list. The basic foundations of each of the divisions in such a coalition are a blatant and severe violation of the other Partnership's founding principles. Can anyone seriously take a course of applying sovereignty to the government of Tamar Zandberg? Can a preventable attack in the Gaza Strip be conceived under the threat of Ayman Odeh's disbelief? Can one seriously discuss the repeal of the nationality law when one of his drafters sits in government? Is it possible to imagine economic reforms with the consent of Nissancorn and Amir Peretz? of course not.
Basically, the "origin of the plunder" presented by Benny Gantz - whether a minority government or the miraculous lie and the 60 left-wing bloc will be achieved (without the joint) - is an eye-catcher.
The impassioned talk of "unity" and "progress" must not be deceived. The latest Netanyahu government has given Israel an unprecedented view of progress and development, precisely because of its conceptual cohesion. The damages of a blue and white led government is a sure recipe for blasts, and its damage can be severe and devastating to society and the country as many times as a passing political crisis.
