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Opinion | Warrior, ideologue, but as if | Israel today

2021-11-09T00:38:00.491Z


Shikli says he refused tempting offers from Bennett only to continue to adhere to his principles. MK Amichai Shikli is the new superhero of the Israeli right: young, handsome, intelligent, graceful and uncompromising. . Every day he trills the coalition. Wearing his cloak of values ​​and flying towards the next status on social media and studios, who are happy to host the brave, fearless rebel. Hands by right but the voice is the voice of the opposition. The bearer of the banner of public cou


MK Amichai Shikli is the new superhero of the Israeli right: young, handsome, intelligent, graceful and uncompromising. .

Every day he trills the coalition.

Wearing his cloak of values ​​and flying towards the next status on social media and studios, who are happy to host the brave, fearless rebel.

Hands by right but the voice is the voice of the opposition.

The bearer of the banner of public courage, integrity and especially courage, is the original "Abu Yemina" - and everyone else, including the Prime Minister, are just a faded imitation.

But MK Shikli does not retire and form a single faction. He too has a cloak that protects him, no matter what is written on it, the main thing is that he can fly.

Grasping opinions and worldview is beautiful and exciting.

But when you are not willing to pay a price for your opinions and continue to act as if everything is allowed, it is already opportunism.

Shikli relates that he refused tempting offers from Bennett only to continue to adhere to his principles.

What he forgets to tell is that if he really has the courage to continue to serve as an independent MK, he will not be able to run in the next election on behalf of any existing faction and then he has no chance of becoming part of the Likud.

Yes, this is the real story: the fear of getting bald from here and there.

It is clear that if the man is running in the next election in an independent party, his chances of passing the blocking percentage are slim.

Thousands of Facebook likes and Twitter tweets are pleasing to the ego.

Actually translating popularity on social networks into practice voting is not a picnic.

Ask "New Land" and Eldad Yaniv.

Quite a few Knesset members have in the past acted as single factions.

Ben-Gurion, the man and the legend, was left alone in the battle after members of the List of Israeli Workers' Party chose to merge again with the Labor Party.

Former Minister Yosef Paritzky, who recently passed away, acted in the Knesset as a single faction after he could no longer continue to be part of a "change," and in retrospect this move was one of those that helped dismantle the party.

Even Orly Levy-Abacis, who can teach quite a few politicians a chapter on opportunism, did not dare to behave as Shikli behaves: In 2016, when Yisrael Beiteinu entered the coalition, Levy-Abacis remained out and acted as a single faction.

Only Amichai Shikli continues to go with and feel without: he neither endangers his political future nor continues to enjoy the image of the honest and decent rebel.

So true, Shikli shouts that the king is naked.

But the time has come for those around him to shout "Hey, Amichai - we see you too".

Source: israelhayom

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