The chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu called on Israeli Arabs to form another party • The move may actually give Netanyahu an advantage in the struggle to neutralize the legal-political warfare against him • Opinion
MK Avigdor Lieberman in Tel Aviv, June
Photography:
Gideon Markovich
Avigdor Lieberman has come a long way since his statement in 2006, that "collaborators should be executed as they did in Nuremberg."
This, following a meeting of Arab MKs with Hamas.
In an interview with News 12 this weekend, he is already asking Israeli Arabs to come out against MK Mansour Abbas and form another party. This time it is a much more serious meeting than Hamas; it is a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Arab Knesset members have become wanted since the election eight months ago.
Initially, as a parliamentary base on which the submarine government of Ganz, Ya'alon, Shelach, Lieberman and Yair Golan will be established.
Mansour Abbas' RAAM faction is now becoming part of Netanyahu's parliamentary activities.
It was already mentioned that a year ago, Natan Eshel wrote an article in which he called for Arab representatives to be involved in power.
As far as Netanyahu and the Likud are concerned, the cooperation with the Abbas faction has been a continuation of the budget assistance projects in the development of the Arab sector since the beginning of the previous term of the government, after the 2015 reconciliation.
As long as the Likud draws a clear line between political moves and the fight against terrorism, and activities for economic integration and the provision of all services to Arab citizens, as for every citizen in Israel, the move against a legitimate RAM faction.
It would be a historic act if the Corona Cabinet were to be joined by an Arab MK, perhaps in the presence of a minister.
Bottom line, if we do not succeed in mobilizing the ultra-Orthodox and the Arabs for the overall fight against the virus, we will go back into quarantine even before the liberation from the second quarantine.
Lieberman's attack belongs to a genre that gives every move of the prime minister an explanation of personal benefit.
But the personal benefit, so to speak, aids the functioning of the government and it may also give Netanyahu an advantage in the struggle to neutralize the legal-political warfare against him.
Abbas said he did not oppose French law.
If the system does not know how to postpone legal proceedings against a prime minister in an emergency, then it seems that a special law is needed for this.
The interesting thing is who from the left-submarine coalition was chosen to curse the detent between the prime minister and the Arab sector.
Lieberman is a partner in the process of purchasing the submarines, and in this respect he should be assigned due to disgust with Moshe Ya'alon and his friends.
But if he is willing to get his hands dirty and delegitimize the Arabs - everything will be forgiven him.
After all, the submarine coalition is also a coalition of the beauties of the soul.
None of them will go cursing the Arabs, for that they send Lieberman on the attack.
The riddle is, who still supports it.
Voting for Lieberman means neutralizing the Knesset's ability to unite in a functioning government coalition.
This is the blame that has been lying on Lieberman since he resigned from the government at the end of 2018 and refused to join the coalition in April 2019.