It is not clear to what extent the state commission of inquiry decided on yesterday will issue dramatic decisions, but what is clear is that the current government's decision to investigate the previous government set an unfounded precedent, as it is probably not a one-time decision on an exceptional case. .
It is quite clear that the next government will do the same as its predecessor, and God forbid it will happen again.
Yesterday's decision reinforces the feeling that the members of the current coalition, more than came to govern - came on a campaign of revenge.
Coalition members come from a world of different values and perceptions, until it comes to Netanyahu. There is a consensus about him. The right will be willing to hand over territories and the left will build more outposts in Judea and Samaria if they know that somehow the move will harm Netanyahu. Netanyahu has been the axis around which the Israeli governments have operated for the past decade, and he continues to be the most significant axis in the current government, of which he is, as is well known, not a member at all. Once Cabinet members identified a threat in his character, through a plea deal that would shuffle the cards for them, they rushed to line up, forget again the abysmal differences between them, abandon, once again, their past views on the issue, and make a decision to investigate him before he could harm them himself.
All the recommended talk about the need to maintain the rule of law, the gatekeepers, the supremacy of the enforcement system - vanished as if they were a bunch of politicians now manning the chairs around the cabinet table, preferring to sweep its conclusions under the rug and put a legal tribunal on its own.
Those people who want to authorize the attorney general to oust an incumbent prime minister, through the law that a person with an indictment will not be able to serve, have put a stripe on the same ombudsman who ruled that Netanyahu did nothing wrong in the affair.
Netanyahu.
The connection point of the coalition, Photo: Coco
Even before the forms were submitted for Netanyahu's signature as part of the plea deal, there are those in the Likud who are already thinking about the day after.
The question of the identity of the leader who will come after Netanyahu is a question that currently interests those who see themselves as candidates for leadership, their families and associates, and less so the Likud voters and party functionaries.
The most acute question that will be asked of them, if Netanyahu resigns, will be whether the next leader - temporary or permanent - will strive to join the existing government in exchange for lentil stew, how much he will succeed in sweeping all faction members with him, and if he will forgive Gideon Saar and others. His leadership.
Mandelblit.
The government ignored his decision, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Contrary to the image that is often tried to infect them, the Likudniks actually know how to forgive.
Some of the retirees in the past were warmly received after being beaten for sin and returning home.
Benny Begin, Dan Meridor, Tzachi Hanegbi and others were married when they returned to the Likud after an adventure outside it.
Even other Kadima refugees like Zeev Elkin or Avi Dichter were received with applause, despite the great damage that party left to their longtime party.
But maybe this time the story is a little different.
After all, the Kadima government was elected in its own right, which is impossible to say about the current government, in which in a sense all its partners took part in one of the great deceptions of Israeli politics.
Giving them a pardon would be a pretty bad example for those who would seek to commit more political crimes in the future.
Were we wrong?
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