Since the formation of the current government, one gets the impression that it has enjoyed etrog and support among many of the media.
Although criticism can already be found in newspapers and television studios of the performance of the prime minister and his ministers, it seems that sometimes it comes to go out of duty. That the left is invested to the neck in the existence of the current coalition?
First, in the last decade, the right has permeated the understanding that the excessive power of the justice system is a strategic issue. According to them, behind abstract concepts such as "human rights", "reasonableness", "proportionality" and "purposefulness", lies a judicial revolution that robbed much of the legitimate powers of the Knesset and the government and transferred them to unelected centers of power. From dealing with illegal infiltrators, through the struggle to enforce planning and construction laws in Judea and Samaria, the Negev and the Galilee, to the opening fire regulations to the election of pro-terror MKs - a long line of judgments and legal opinions made it clear that without reform to restore balance , Right-wing governments have no chance of successfully promoting camp policy.
In a long process, the demand for a balance between the authorities has become one of the flagship issues of the right.
In fact, those who built their political careers around the demand for a counter-revolution to the judicial revolution were none other than Naftali Bennett and especially Ayelet Shaked, who even ran in the election with the slogan "Shaked will win the High Court, Bennett will win Hamas."
Now things are clearing up.
If the right has marked as a strategic goal the reduction of the power of the judicial system, then the strategic goal of the left is reversed by 180 degrees: preservation, fortification and even expansion of the power of jurists.
The left can register two strategic achievements in the current coalition: the first is the crushing of the right-wing majority and the removal of the air from the sails of the struggle to restrain the judicial system.
Not only is the right-wing majority crushed, but the leaders of the right-wing struggle to restrain the jurists - Shaked and Bennett - are the ones who have shattered the right-wing hopes of restoring balance between the authorities.
The second is the fortification and even expansion of the power of the judiciary in relation to elected officials. The first step taken by the current government was the appointment of Amit Isman, the editorial candidate, to the position of State Attorney. An attorney general, six Supreme Court justices and dozens of other senior officials will be appointed in the next term. Even more important for the left is the bill promoted by Justice Minister Gideon Saar, which would ban a person indicted from forming a government. On elected officials.
The political deal at the base of the current coalition is simple: Bennett and Shaked have received what is important to them - respect, power and especially two years to the right-wing chairman of the USSR.
In return, the two gave up on the flagship issue on whose behalf they built their political careers: the struggle in the justice system.
The left, for its part, has given two years as prime minister to a party with only six seats, but can register a strategic achievement in the form of crushing the right-wing struggle against the judiciary, strengthening its power, and apparently increasing its power over the political system.