Parliamentary bankruptcy took place in the Knesset • At the same time as the Israeli government, promiscuous politicians like Torch, Shalom and Lieberman form a kind of government within parliament • Opinion

"We'll talk in the dark about the crowds at noon." A key phrase breaks down Psalms, which is probably the most widely read text in the State of Israel these days.

Netanyahu and Gantz sworn to 23rd Knesset before empty plenary // Photo: Knesset channel

At the same time as the Israeli government, promiscuous politicians are set up in the image of Yair Lapid, Ofer Shalah and Avigdor Lieberman as a kind of government within the Knesset. I do not have enough imagination to think of the moves that can be made from the Knesset committees to sabotage government activity and to impose fast-paced legislative measures. In a presidential regime like in the United States, a congressional situation is possible for me, since the president is the executive arm and has considerable executive power. The prime minister and the government have no power that is not pumped out of the Knesset. Therefore, what was done yesterday was a severe sabotage of the parliamentary regime, which the State of Israel will find difficult to recover from. A few days ago, the New York Times's Thomas Friedman wrote the obvious: promiscuous politicians risk the public during the epidemic. The High Court is putting tough competition on those politicians.

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But the unfortunate heroes of the establishment of the joint Arab-list government with the blue-and-white government are members of Knesset Zvika Hauser, Yoaz Handel, Hili Trooper, Orly Levi-Abaxis and perhaps some others. They vowed not to support such a government; But right now, if they take part in voting for the next few days, they are doing exactly what they announced they would not do. It is an alliance with a Palestinian nationalist body in the management of crucial areas of state life.

And how did we get to this place? A group of Colonel Nicholson generals from the Bridge on the River Kwai invested all in building a great bridge that, at the very moment of an existential crisis, serves the invisible enemy. Mad detail: The famous whistle tune from the movie is called "Colonel Boogie's Marsh." Colonel Nicholson, who employed his captive soldiers by the Japanese in the construction of the bridge, forgot that the bridge served the enemy, and there was a greater purpose than the morale of the soldiers in captivity: the victory in the war over the Japanese enemy. Just like General Gantz and Colonel Boogie from our school. Nicholson so sympathizes with the bridge that at the end of the book he summons the Japanese to eliminate a commando squad that came to blow it up. In the film, the ending is different: Nicholson realizes his horrible mistake; It falls on the operating lever and the bridge explodes. The key in Benny Gantz's hands is whether his termination will be a sabotage of the national effort, or a commitment to a united leadership against the visible enemies, as well as the plague.