In its new incarnation, the left no longer seeks to replace the people - but to cure it of its diseases • And what are its diseases?
The insistence on electing Knesset representatives himself, or if you will: "bribery, fraud and breach of trust", and in short: "go"
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Illustration: Shimon Engel
There are moments in a person's life
when he feels old.
For example, when he had to learn how to make a bank transfer in a telephone widget, or alternatively, when he had to adapt morning news to new names for the political blocs in Israel.
We, the swamp dryers, have lived several (and several more) good years with "right", "left", and did not feel deprived.
Although we did not know where to convene the Arab parties and the ultra-Orthodox, there was no special need to define a bloc, since at that time the world had not heard of the television graphic artist profession, whose job it was to draw a large cake and then cut slices of it in different colors. In the right camp.
Hint: left camp.
Sometime in the second half of the previous decade, it became clear that Netanyahu's tenure as prime minister was not a transient mistake of a handful of idiots, but crucial evidence of the very tangible existence of a right-wing camp.
Moreover, it seemed that not only was the right-wing camp growing - it also regularly threatened the rule of the left, and also managed to annex to it the bearded parties from the ultra-Orthodox wing.
As such, the left became the Graphic Artists and Copywriters' Party.
As is customary in the advertising industry, the left in its new incarnation has tried to brand itself as something fresh, attractive and vibrant, and by no means should be called the deterrent "left".
For the left has succeeded in exhausting itself on the majority of the electorate, and has lost not only its aura of prestige, but also lost in the test of natural multiplicity.
Fortunately, the graphic-copywriters' party was able to unite with the central media bloc, and thus the new terms that would be used by the left-wing bloc in its current incarnation could be easily introduced.
The left has always excelled in catchy slogans: "New Middle East", "Victims of Peace", "Peace Now", "Substantial Democracy", "Social Protest" - all these and others were used as polished posters for a shimmering and glamorous product, which became a handful of dust.
Sometimes there was also blood, and prosperous settlements that were destroyed.
The continued failure of the left-wing camp to increase the slice of graphic artists' cake initially caused understandable embarrassment and existential confusion: how?
After all, we are the good and just.
Why did the public reject the defective product we sold to him, despite the tempting packaging?
This question was too difficult to resolve, as it required a comprehensive mental account.
Therefore, instead of a mental account, the joint list was attached to the left bloc.
Although the list members' leftism was mainly expressed in a certain tolerance towards terrorists and a desire to establish a Palestinian state, as is customary on the left, on the other hand, it was difficult to turn a blind eye to the fact that the joint list refuses any form of Jewish state.
The left has overcome the difficulty and leaves an eye.
In the September 2020 election,
it turned out that even this cake did not go well, as the Blue and White faction and a few other MKs in bulk felt uncomfortable with its ingredients. True, Ganz and his associates still knew in the depths of their souls that although they were not really left, they were not completely right. Come - look at the right-wing camp, what form it has and who heads it. To their distress was added the recognition of the failure of the term "center". No one really knew what it was. In an experiment conducted among focus groups, it turned out that most subjects think "center" is a nickname for a group of generals retired Smftziaim noisy political spin, and then fade to unfunded pensions.
again Hgrfikaim-kofiriitrim-tksort Party met and suggested: "just not Bibi." born in a popular slogan, away from the offices decorated. in fact, risen from implicit criticism regarding the ideological emptiness of the left, His eternal hatred of the right and its leaders, and his stubborn refusal to accept not only the decision of the voter, but also the character and preferences of the people. And this, unfortunately, does not look good at the poster level, nor at the studio level. Imagine a TV presenter shouting: "Oops!
It is no longer possible with these right-wingers!
Why not let us continue to elect a prime minister like we used to? "It looks childish, it does not look democratic. It is better to say with a serious face:" Attack on gatekeepers, danger to democracy, listen to another tape of Sarah Netanyahu. "
Therefore, an option was tried." A bloc in favor of Netanyahu "and on the other hand a" bloc for replacing Netanyahu ". It is clear to any connoisseur that these are very cumbersome names, long, and most importantly - the left bloc deserves a more elegant name, right? The new one, the left, no longer seeks to replace the people - that is, it certainly seeks, but knows that there are things that are said only in the heart - but to cure it of its diseases. And what are its diseases? : "Bribery, fraud and breach of trust", and in short: "Go".
The new packaging
was a resounding success, among other things because the three leaders of the left-wing camp are the flesh and blood of the media party: Yair Lapid, a reporter for the "camp," a Channel 2 star and former Yedioth Ahronoth;
Merav Michaeli, Galatznikit, and later presenter at Keshet; and Nitzan Horowitz, also a graduate of Galatz, who was a reporter for Haaretz, News 2, and Channel 13. , Are there veteran media people, who speak the language and family members in all the influential studios and newspapers?
Undoubtedly a coincidence, but one whose benefit is on its side.
And what about the right, final name that will fit the healing change bloc?
Well, I'm neither a graphic designer nor a copywriter.
Also, I may have been drowsy when the best commentators in the best studios explained to me that something "is not a matter of right or left," just as I just did a sponge when asked Gantz why he is too stately, damn it.
It has always been right versus left, and it is still right versus left.
Just left.
With the same right-wing hatred and the same aversion to democracy.
Like in the good old days.
