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Opinion | The National Struggle Prior to the Struggle in Government | Israel today

2022-01-15T21:35:35.726Z


True, the amendment to the Citizenship Law proposed by Minister Shaked is only temporary and partial, but in the meantime it is essential to close loopholes. • Will the Likud vote against and join the chain of stupidity and irresponsibility?


The entanglement with the rioting Bedouin in the Negev, under the auspices of Ra'am, ostensibly justifies the Likud's radical line toward the government: opposition at all costs and in all matters. To fall, because of its internal contradictions, and its reliance on a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and the post-Zionist leadership of Labor and Meretz. To the ground.

Such a concerted effort would suffice to overthrow the hybrid government concocted by Lieberman and Lapid.

More things will accumulate, such as quarrels over the responsibility for the corona's failures, another dubious pearl from Yair Golan's bridle, another nationalist or Muslim blackmail of Ra'am, another problem with the settlements - and the famous "belly" of Ayelet Shaked or some MK From the coalition it will hurt to the point of overthrowing the government.

But in this tactic lies an overly optimistic expectation of the values ​​and identity stability of people like Saar, Bennett or Shaked.

It is based on the assumption that there is a certain limit to their ability to succumb to Islamist blackmail, a breach of trust or deny themselves, and beyond that they will overthrow the government.

But the truth is that there is no such limit.

Those with the optimistic assumption do not take into account the depth of the conscious damage caused to such crossroads, the loss of the normative boundaries that characterize them more and more.

A historical story to illustrate: In the English labor movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a radical and pacifist leader named Ramsey McDonald.

He was the first Prime Minister ever on its behalf (1924 and 1929).

In the middle of his second term he split his party, defected with a group from it, and eventually formed a government with right-wing and center-right parties while leading a tiny faction in parliament.

Reminds you of someone?

No one expected him to be true to his values ​​anymore ...

Bennett, Shaked and Saar glide down a slippery slope.

They gambled irresponsibly, severely damaged their identity, and now they and their faction members should be expected to do all the wrong.

There is no basis for hope that they will recover in the face of the government damages they have set up.

While they have an interest in preventing the government from drifting in delusional directions, they have little ability to do so. Shaked is desperately trying, for example, to thwart the flooding of the country through "family reunification," which is nothing but an organized invasion. Every year thousands of Arabs will become citizens of Israel. The Likud must not continue to use its radical tactics on this issue as well and refuse to support the temporary amendment to the Citizenship Law, which Shaked's post-Zionist and Islamist "partners" do not support, of course. It is better for the Likud to listen to Dr. Yuval Steinitz's proposal under Dr. Gadi Taub's "gatekeeper" And this struggle has not yet been decided. In which one should win. It must not be abandoned for the sake of fighting a government, even a very harmful government like the current government.

True, this amendment is only temporary and partial.

It is not enough to block Arab immigration.

In the near future it is necessary to drastically reduce the High Court's ability to determine immigration policy, and a substantial and stable amendment must be made to the Citizenship Law, based on national considerations. But now it is not politically and politically possible, The residence permits, despite the concessions in it. The GSS flooded us with Arab immigrants who cooperated with it.

As usual, our security establishment does not see much beyond its tactical nose.

Will the Likud now join the chain of stupidity and irresponsibility?

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Source: israelhayom

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