Throughout the last generation, the ideological justification of the left has been that there is a demographic problem.
The left used it as a political weapon.
According to the camp leaders and his friends, on his research institutes, if Israel does not withdraw from Judea and Samaria and divide Jerusalem, the Jewish character of the state will be lost.
Within a year or two, a decade or several decades, the number of Arabs west of the Jordan River will exceed the number of Jews.
The Zionist dream will crash.
Anyone who wants to apply Israeli sovereignty to parts or to the whole of Judea and Samaria, everyone said, is in fact anti-Zionist.
He is working to turn Israel into a post-Jewish, post-Zionist state.
The good news is that the black predictions have come true.
As the population data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics towards the beginning of the new civil year indicate, there is a solid and solid Jewish majority.
There are about 6.8 million Jews living in Israel today, which is 73.9 percent of the population.
Together with those entitled to immigrate under the Law of Return, and together with other non-Jews who are not part of the Arab minority, this is a majority of 80 percent.
Due to the high level of fertility among Jewish women and the decline in births among Muslim women on both sides of the Green Line, and thanks to a high level of immigration, the Jewish majority is growing stronger.
As the demographic researcher, former ambassador Yoram Ettinger, testifies, if Israel exercises its sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, the Jewish majority will be reduced to about 63 percent, but it will not disappear.
Moreover, demography is not a strategic threat to the future of the Jewish state, but a winning card of the Jews.
Zionism will wait
But as strange as it may sound, even with the passing of demographic terror, the threat to Israel's Jewish character hovering over the country has not been removed. Demography is dead, long live sociology. It turns out that the Arabs do not need a majority in the Land of Israel to abolish the Jewish state. They only need a minority of Jews to form a partnership with them, and in this way they will succeed, even as a relatively small minority, in ending the days of the nation-state of the Jewish people.
About a decade and a half ago, the left in Israel was almost wiped out. Only eight percent of Israelis identified as left-wingers in a survey of Jewish federations in North America in 2018. In a 2014 poll, only 12 percent of Israeli Jews identified as left-wingers.
They despaired of the election process, and in its place we saw the separation of growing sections of the left from Zionism and the commitment to the existence of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. As employees of anti-Zionist left-wing organizations funded by European governments, left-wingers began to play a key role in the political war against the right to exist of the Jewish state. Leftists joined the boycott movement. They led a legal and propaganda struggle against the right of the state to enforce its laws on its Arab citizens. They waged a struggle against Jewish symbols in the public arena - the Chametz Law, the women of the Western Wall, separate events for men and women, and more.
The political arena has responded to the shrinking left at its own pace.
Meretz, which faced deletion at the ballot box and barely passed the blocking percentage, announced that it had already given up on searching for new Jewish voters and would begin seeking support among the Arabs.
Labor has also stepped up its recruitment efforts among the Arab sector.
Apparently, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, have also worked for years to recruit supporters among Israeli Arabs.
But while the Likud and Shas appealed to Israeli Arabs as Zionist parties (or at least, in the case of Shas as a very proud Jewish party), Meretz and Labor were willing to give up their Zionism in order to win the Arab vote.
In other words, they did not include pro-Israel Arabs, but approached the anti-Zionist Arab parties to take ideological anti-Zionist votes from them.
It so happened that Meretz imitated Zionism from its platform, and the party's motto was "to be free in our country" - without a people.
Creeping ideological milling
As for work, the flag of Zionism of Ben-Gurion and Golda and Rabin was replaced by the flag of feminism.
For example, Abtissam Maraana, who on the one hand compares the establishment of the State of Israel (the Nakba) to the Holocaust, but on the other hand speaks in a female language, joined the party and integrated within it naturally.
The extremism in the center-left was more gradual.
In 2011, as a Knesset member on behalf of Kadima, Avi Dichter first introduced the Nationality Bill with the support of his faction leader, Tzipi Livni.
When he raised her again as an MK from the Likud, Livni was one of the strongest opponents of a legislative initiative that, on the whole, came to strengthen the constitutional status of Israel's Jewish character. Was obvious about the Jewish character of Israel - required in light of eroding the left's commitment to Israel as a Jewish state.
The erosion has intensified during the turmoil of the four election campaigns over the past three years.
When we set out, the four captains of Blue and White were committed to forming a coalition without the joint list (which also included RAAM, before it decided to run alone).
The first to leave the road were people who have a future.
Yair Lapid, Ofer Shelach and their friends supported the formation of a government based on the joint list that supports the erasure of the Jewish state.
After the third election, they were joined by a blue-and-white chairman, Bnei Gantz. That it has no existence without RAAM.
As we have seen since the current government was formed, and despite the beautiful statements of Prime Minister Mansour Abbas, the addition of the Islamic list to Bennett and Lapid's coalition does not express a combination of its elected representatives in the Zionist current of Israel, but a minority of Jews in Israel. Islamic.
The non-passage of the Citizenship Law, the passage of the Electricity Law, the abolition of planting in the "Arab Negev" this week, the non-connection of young settlements to electricity and more, testify to a thousand witnesses that in the current government, the Arab minority absorbed the Jewish minority.
The moral of all this is clear.
In order to rehabilitate and preserve the Jewish state, an overwhelming majority of Jews in the Land of Israel is not enough.
There is also a need to restore the commitment of the Jewish elected representatives to the preservation and strengthening of the Jewish character of the State of Israel.
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