The word "deterioration" does kindness to the Labor Party, for the variety of affectionate nicknames with which it has run in elections over the years.
It is ironic to think that the recovery and return to "work" only marked the final disappearance of the party, but not the disappearance of its constituents.
There is no connection between Merav Michaeli's party and that of Yitzhak Rabin or Yigal Alon.
No ideological affiliation, no common ethos and no electorate.
If we are already looking for imagination, today the party that is ideologically closest to working in its great days is the Likud.
The Labor Party's electorate, the same electorate that is united under one party ethos - has taken a time-out.
Injury time.
The Oslo dream that shattered glass on the asphalt of Tel Aviv roads, the evidence that Arafat will deceive Israel, the Palestinian refusal and their insistence on not letting go of acts of terrorism and murder - these are the main reasons that led the Israeli left to gather for a long winter.
The Israeli left is not dead, it is waiting.
I am not talking about the people who have always seen themselves as "left" and have traditionally positioned themselves to the left of the Labor Party, while maintaining good neighborly relations with the post-Zionists.
I'm talking about a huge audience of people whose politics are not the center of their lives, neither then nor today.
There have never been political animals, but if you call them "left" they will politely correct you: "center-left".
With the disappearance of the Labor Party House of Representatives they had to choose, literally, and find a new hostel.
To the right-wing party they will never vote, just as I will never vote to the left.
Tribal matter, almost genetic.
On the other hand, I guess the prevailing views today in the party of Abtissam Maraana and Gilad Karib are a little further away from them.
On the cliff of times, the Labor Party's electorate parked itself in a long-term parking lot, and there the parking lot is "There is a Future."
There they wait, and the complete absence of any value line or agenda among the parking lot management only made it easier for them.
Waiting for the new Rabin, waiting for a change.
We are waiting for a political leader who, although he will have to be far from the right, will no less have to be a Zionist, a lover of his people and his country and one who will declare it out loud.
This public is silent and its voice is not heard.
Just as the bibistic, reasoned voice is not heard, the one that does not speak with its hands.
Thus the voice of the normal, ordinary public disappeared from the media.
That voice was supposed to shout today "Stop the Earth!"
It is impossible to continue like this.
Most of them may despise Netanyahu and hope for his disappearance from the political map, but there is a limit.
That's not how they wanted to win.
Not by a police officer immersed to the neck in suspicions of criminal conduct and a public prosecution system that is nothing but the ruins of an improper administration.
I do not know what I would do in their place.
The dilemma is terrible.
Giving a hand to the right-wing struggle is a belly-revolution thought, but on the other hand there is not so much a other side.
If the Israeli center-left intends to wake up, it should do so as long as there is something to wake up to.
Were we wrong?
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