Senior journalists in religious Zionism have proposed a deal: Netanyahu's retirement in exchange for closing all his cases • In practice, this is a surrender to the protest of the extreme left • Opinion
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From "On Blindness" (2008)
Last week,
several columns
were published and
several tweets from senior Zionist journalists were tweeted, based on a deal: Netanyahu will resign as prime minister and the cases against him will be closed, one way or another.
All the writers are my friends and good people.
But only one of them is Kalman Liebskind.
Kalman is a friend, partner, brother, and his text in Maariv on the eve of the holiday was like a box in my stomach.
Because I grab from him a real compass, a man whose mouth and heart are straight as a spirit level, the feeling of distress has not left me until now.
I felt it was not fair to make such an offer at a time like this, when we are so close to revealing the truth.
So I was amazed that the super-researcher Kalman, who exposes the system's failures week after week, de facto agrees to surrender.
After all, the stench rises from every corner.
A large public is convinced that there was a rough sewing of a prime minister here, a hunting trip that began with phishing, continued with selective enforcement, contamination of investigation and extortion of witnesses and ended in a precedent-setting case.
I am not interested in participating in a discussion about timing, it is unnecessary in my eyes and misses the point.
That is why I would like to turn to my favorite colleagues, with utilitarian logical arguments:
A little more than half a year ago, the third election in a row took place in a year, elections that took place after the indictment was filed against Netanyahu.
About 30% of voters voted for the Likud led by Netanyahu.
The highest result of the Likud since the 1988 general election.
In addition, the Basic Law of Government explicitly states that a prime minister can serve in his position until a final verdict is given for an offense involving dishonor, without inventions of fortifications.
A citizen who respects democracy, the public, and the law was obligated to accept the law and allow the state to run as a series, certainly after a unity government was formed.
But, surprisingly, not only in the political system were there those who tried to carry out a targeted thwarting of democracy, but also a small anarchist left group is operating through riots that have violence to thwart the democratic election, shouting that it was done in the name of democracy.
Poor display of anarchism, hypocrisy and lawlessness.
The far-left's attempts to thwart the national public's election can still be understood, and Blue and White's support for the protest can hardly be understood, which I can not understand how my comrades fell into the trap of engineering anti-democratic consciousness, arguing that Netanyahu should resign due to left-wing anti-democracy.
In practice, my friends are proposing to surrender to the "Woodstock of Hate" which numbers a few thousand left-wingers, demonstrating that even in an emergency like no other it refuses to suspend the protest until two weeks of rage has passed?
In Netanyahu's proposal, my friends, unfortunately, internalized the left's propaganda messages and turned their backs on the huge national camp of Likud voters, which allows me and my fellow members of the national-religious sector to be part of the majority, and to promote religious Zionism beyond its actual political magnitude.
Beyond the moral and
ethical
question
involved in my friends' proposal, I think it is also utilitarianly contrary to the interests of religious Zionism and the national camp.
The result of such a move would be the strengthening of the left-wing camp fighting against the views of the national camp and the severe damage to the struggle for the identity of the State of Israel as a Jewish state with a democratic regime.
It is important to mention in this context that Brigadier General Amir Hashakel, one of the founders of the leftist demonstrations and one of their symbols, clarified in a Facebook post, when he went out to demonstrate against Netanyahu in December 2016, that he does so because Netanyahu is unable or unwilling to evacuate settlers. Necessary for Israel This was before the investigations began.
Or, for example, Nitzan Weisberg, the niece of Ehud Barak and one of the leaders of the left-wing protests, founds the "Strengthen" organization that Barak attended and tweeted: "At the launch party of" Strengtheners "at Koli Alma - with my brilliant niece Nitzan The state. "
After all, Mrs. Weisberg had fought her religion before her war on corruption, that was her ticket.
The demonstrations are attended by MKs from the joint list and carry signs against the occupation, apartheid and more. Was it because of the anarchy that this small, anti-democratic and far-left group that receives strong echoes from the left-wing media sowed, that my friends fell and they offered to surrender Strong?
Do my friends not see that the leaders of the riots are the most bitter political rivals of the national camp in general and of the religious public in particular? Which settlements and which settlers does Amir Hashakel seek to evacuate? Who is accused of religion in education and in general, the religion for which "Strengthen" was established?
What healing process are my friends and partners Kalman Liebskind talking about, when he offers loyal partners who are Likud voters to abandon their vote for reconciliation with the rioters on the left?
In my humble opinion, this is not just an immoral and anti-democratic proposal, but a blindness to historical dynamics.
The extreme left protest was intended to overthrow the right and replace the Jewish state with the state of all its citizens, no less.
If MKs Ahmad Tibi, Ayman Odeh and Aida Toma Suleiman take part in these demonstrations, they fully understand what I have written here.
After the last election,
and contrary to the commitment of the electorate, the former chiefs of staff did not hesitate to cooperate with Balad either, ie those who sent soldiers into battle against murderous terrorists, cooperate with those who support these terrorists at worst, or refuse to condemn them, at best .
And another key point: raising a white flag by the same group means one thing: every right-wing leader will henceforth be in danger of being ousted by a small group of officials in the law enforcement system run by left-wing influences and media outlets that back it up.
This result will turn any right-wing leader into a lame duck by definition.
If so, Netanyahu is not the target, he is the means.
The goal is to neutralize the right and promote the end of Israel as a Jewish state and make it a state of all its citizens, all through the High Court and the legal oligarchy protected by the perpetrators of the riots, and the entire national camp must defend against this anti-Zionist and anti-democratic result.