Miri Regev is a convenient political target.
I can write with my eyes closed a review article on it.
Its exposure on the cover of "7 Days," while calling for an Eastern revolution in the Likud, is delusional even in the eyes of right-wingers.
Where have you been, Mrs. Regev, in all the years you have served the rule of Ashkenazi men?
Since when are you interested in gaps and peripheries, beyond conflicting headlines?
From Sderot, it is easy to see that Regev's power is only in her mouth, and that her only strategy is to light a fire of hatred and populism.
Regev was the one who called for a Sderot conference without any announcement or apology.
Regev was also the one who tried to prevent funding for the important southern cinema conference in Sderot.
But it is more important to find our point of truth in Regev's Torah provocation.
She is not a leader and can not show action, but she is certainly a politician who recognizes opportunities.
Regev's call for the Likud to connect more significantly to the periphery is a correct call, and it is the important thing.
The Likud lost the last election in the periphery.
Anyone who looks at the voting data in Sderot sees that more than 80% of the voters voted for the right-wing parties and the Netanyahu coalition.
But, the much more important and interesting thing is that close to 50% of eligible voters did not go to the polls at all.
Those who remain at home are the largest party in Sderot and in many other peripheral cities, Jewish and Arab.
The suspicion, distrust and alienation of the social and geographical peripheries towards the political system in general, and towards the Likud, which during 12 years of rule has done very little in their favor, are the great disappearance of the political system.
An in-depth study by the Israel Democracy Institute shows how in 1965 Herut learned to understand this, and began building branches, promoting leaders from the periphery and finding real solutions to living in poverty and distress.
Thus it became a governmental alternative and led to the historic political upheaval of 1977, from which the left has not yet recovered.
In fact, this is the move I led in March 2018.
As part of the peripheral headquarters we set up, in a few months we established about ten new branches of activity.
In Yeruham, Sderot, Afula, Tamra, Rahat, Beer Sheva and more.
Those who do not understand that this is the only place from which a governmental revolution will come, prefer to stay in the comfort zones, bang their head against the same wall and hope that for the time being this century will bring different results.
And for those who are afraid of Eastern speech: I wish for a day when the gaps between Amzaleg, Said and Katz, for example, will not symbolize deep and structured discrimination. We are still far away. Just as I am not afraid to examine gaps between women and men and between Jews and Arabs in Israel, so I should not be afraid in terms of gaps between Ashkenazis and Mizrahis and between peripheries and the geographical and economic center in Israel. There are no shortcuts, and no blessing in closing eyes.