About six months ago, nine days before the expiration of Benjamin Netanyahu's mandate, when right-wing leaders and New Hope insisted that they not sit in the government headed by him, I was offered to be the one to resolve the political crisis.
I was offered to be prime minister for a year.
It took me exactly a few seconds to reply, "Thanks, but no."
I did this out of respect for democracy and the will of the voters, out of national responsibility and concern for the State of Israel.
It is not possible, I thought, for a person who received nine seats, equal to about a third of the number of Netanyahu-led Likud voters, to distort the will of the voters.
The Likud note clearly reads, "The Likud led by Benjamin Netanyahu for prime minister," is what the voter stated.
At the time, I felt that my morals and the respect I felt for the will of the voter were shared by other elected officials, but in time I was surprised to discover, together with you, that this is not the case.
In fact, today the prime minister and the deputy prime minister together received fewer votes than Netanyahu and the Likud.
Thus, in this act they both made all the actions of the coalition illegitimate, distorting the will of the people.
Try to imagine it was me in their place.
Try to imagine the headlines and the studios.
But, as we have all seen, what they are allowed to do is not allowed.
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This government, whose heads are grossly violating any election promise at the expense of the entire public, which is collapsing under its burden, is mistaken in thinking we will be forgotten.
They "take money and give it to politicians to buy quiet."
I did not say that, but a torch.
At the time, we did not know how this sentence became a strategic plan in his head.
This is the same torch that Ricky Cohen from Hadera wants to ask him "Where is the money?".
Well, Ricky Cohen is not waiting for an answer, she sees how her money is distributed to every man who can overthrow the government with the flick of a finger.
After all, even without core studies, every child knows how to calculate that if the head of a party with four seats received NIS 53 billion, the ultra-Orthodox parties - which during Netanyahu's rule counted 16 seats - should have received NIS 212 billion.
How much did we actually receive?
Not even a tenth of that.
Add to that writing off debts of tens of millions to a local authority, just because the coalition member is a local resident.
Imagine for a second you were transposed into the karmic driven world of Earl.
What a media festival it was.
"I invested the coalition money that the Shas movement received for the benefit of the whole of Israeli society, despite the many attacks of the 'Aryeh Deri type that distributes money to the ultra-Orthodox.'
In contrast, the coalition funds received by each MK in the current coalition, they chose to invest in reforms in the US, in stray cats, in environmental youth movements.
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I invested the coalition funds received by the Shas movement in lowering the prices of public transportation and water - the billion shekels given to me, all for the benefit of the whole of Israeli society. Add to that The weakest in society, regardless of religion, race or sector, despite the many attacks of the type "Aryeh Deri distributes money to the ultra-Orthodox." And why? Because such is Shas, the most social party in the Knesset. In contrast, the coalition funds received by each MK in the current coalition, they chose to invest in reforms in the US, stray cats, environmental youth movements and more.
And if all this is not enough, then it seems that the coalition is more determined than ever to dismantle the two axes on which the State of Israel has been based since its inception - Jewish and democratic.
I have always said that Shas is the guardian of Judaism in the country, and I was right. There was not a single worshiper there to find out, this is how it is when their sole purpose is provocation and separation among the people.
Kosher certificate (archive), Photo: Yehoshua Yosef
Take, for example, the kosher reform: Beyond their intention to uproot Judaism and eliminate the rabbinical institution in Israel, there is a social and economic harm to the traditional public, to business owners and their customers.
In the State of Israel, there will be an expensive kosher jungle.
The traditional public, for whom it is important to maintain basic kosher food, will now have to choose whether he needs kosher food from a private body, and God forbid he may bring prey into his home, or he must take more money out of his pocket and receive kosher food.
"A house of the Gentiles," Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Zatzokal called Bennett's party. really.
As for democracy - I, Aryeh Deri, a student of the Torah yeshivot, should teach Bennett a lesson in democracy?
From representation, division and chairing of committees, to a law proposed by Gideon Saar, which prohibits respect for the will of the electorate and deprives the only person entitled to a mandate to form the government, Netanyahu, the right to form it.
And the Corona cabinet?
As a government minister, who has played a key role in dealing with the Corona crisis, the discussions in the Corona Cabinet are critical and have an impact on the lives of all of us.
The contempt and constant absence of Lapid and Lieberman from the Corona cabinet deliberations are lawlessness in her name.
I have never encountered such blatant contempt for the public and escape from responsibility on the part of government ministers.
And the climax?
It reached the peak of morbidity.
The Corona cabinet was not convened for two weeks, but when they kindly requested that it be convened, the Minister of Health, Horowitz, was absent from most of the meeting, in order to win the picture with Abu Mazen.
Imagine that Litzman used to do this when he was Minister of Health, in order to criticize (differentiate) the Rebbe of Gur?
Finally, today, when both the Jewish and the democratic are in real danger and our money is being distributed everywhere, we are present with a new phenomenon - the criticism has disappeared.
Because what they are allowed to do is forbidden to us, most of the citizens of Israel.
