The camp has turned the "only-not-bibi" into a leading sentiment, and its call to invest in health and well-being is more relevant than ever • 11 seats?
Does not make sense, but it happened • Interpretation
The feeling is that Michaeli is shrinking work and killing Meretz on purpose
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Oren Ben Hakon, Gideon Markovich
The left is reaching the fourth round of elections when, at the most optimistic forecast, it can hope for 11-10 seats.
There may be pleasant surprises, but the fact is that the Labor Party is standing in the polls for 6-5 seats while Meretz is fighting for its life.
Her critics point to a gradual departure from the mainstream of Israeli society, adherence to failed political conceptions, a willingness to compromise on the symbols of Zionism and a poor dialogue with the social and geographical periphery.
These are significant background factors, but the election does not address these issues anyway.
And even so, in front of them the political left had at its disposal a battery of industrial ventilators that were supposed to provide a windfall at hurricane intensities.
It is the left that has finally managed to turn the "Rak-La-Bibi" into a leading sentiment that mobilizes masses for demonstrations and moves voters between parties.
It is the left that the Corona crisis has illustrated the relevance of its call for investment of resources in public systems, and especially in health and welfare.
Photo: From the Facebook page of Merav Michaeli (Archive)
It's the left that Biden's victory (and Trump's defeat) was meant to inspire and model for him to import.
It is the left that should have garnered so many seats from the growth of the Arab-middle class, which is interested in a pragmatic rather than a separatist political partnership.
It is the left that, despite its electoral inferiority, is still dominant in the media and in the mechanisms of shaping consciousness.
11-10 seats in the optimistic forecast?
It does not make sense.
But it happened.
Left-wing voters, yes yes, the socialist left and seeking territorial compromises, prefer to give their vote to Yair Lapid's mediocre and lackluster bourgeois party, whose success in any case depends on Singapore's Naftali Bennett and Betar Saar. How does this happen? And momentum, without stopping to ask: What exactly? About 6-5 seats that could come at the expense of deleting Meretz?
The results of the primaries she insisted on did not give her successful tools.
The work list consists of mostly anonymous figures, and devoid of any public weight.
Those of them who still made headlines, made a shame there.
But the left applauded.
Michaeli dismissed the possibility of reinforcing the unimpressive list with well-known figures with a proven track record.
Characters like Ofer Shelach or Ron Huldai - helpless in independent but attractive parties within a list - were weighed, placed on hold, and given a polite rejection call.
We were left with Abtisam Maraana and Emily Moati.
But the left applauded.
Meretz could now be treated.
Instead of maximizing differences and positioning itself as a ruling reserve party located in the central Zionist current of the left, labor propaganda invaded Meretz's territory: gender identities, civic equality, and distributive justice.
A sophisticated purple chic that has increasingly reduced Meretz's living space, disintegrating it from its particular identity.
Who needs it now?
Thus the most important energy engine on the left was steadily eliminated precisely by its ideological partner;
Cannibalism which gradually shut down the old combustion engine of the peace camp, which kept it alive even in its difficult hours.
But the left applauded.
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And the left, which has a hard time making mental calculations or admitting its tendency to drift after trends, continues to applaud - without realizing that it is being eaten from within.
Michaeli will not pay a price for the collapse of the left, because it does not reach him as the hopes of change.
She managed to establish a broad consensus that 6 seats would be a victory.
Everything this time sits on the shoulders of Yair Lapid;
He is the one whose loss in the upcoming election could be devastating to continue on his way.
The thing is, in order to be successful, he must have a thick left belt next to him.
This is the last thing Michaeli can give him now.
The feeling creeps in that the left-wing lover is shrinking work and killing Meretz on purpose - perhaps to throw Lapid out of the way.
The Likud should send her flowers.
And the left?
clapping.