In recent years, Yair Lapid has been considered the responsible adult of Israeli politics.
Not because he is free from incitement, manipulation, breaking promises and exercises, but precisely because he excelled at them.
Lapid was amazing at doing politics, and above all spinning around Netanyahu a web of webs that eventually led to his downfall.
All of this was true until the appointment of MK Rinawi Zoabi to the Israeli consulate in Shanghai. , Even disturbed, so it is doomed to get stuck.
First, it was a political appointment.
So it is true that foreign ministers have a quota of political appointments at their disposal, and there is even justification for foreign ministers to place their confidants in central embassies, but there is a gap between a political appointment and a political deal.
Did not fit the role.
Zoabi, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
If Lapid had checked properly, he would have discovered that 22 years ago the High Court criticized a similar deal, made with then-MK Yossi Katz from Labor. Of the Likud ", did not check to the end. So much so that even the movement for the quality of government came out against the Zoabi deal.
Moreover, Rinawi Zoabi's positions were professionally impractical.
In the Foreign Service, Arab diplomats serve who, for example, are not in love with the anthem and avoid singing it, but they know how to humble their positions.
Not so with Zoabi, who is a political figure who brings her well-known positions to the position.
Will not represent Israel
From the first moment it was clear that with her background, Zoabi would not be able to represent the State of Israel.
How, for example, could she have justified to the Chinese authorities the actions of the police on the Temple Mount, if in her opinion they were "violent policemen in front of a crowd of worshipers"?
Is that what she would say to her Chinese colleagues?
Or would she lie and recite the Foreign Ministry's position?
The mine was there from the first moment.
Whether he thought the government's predation would overcome the obstacles, or whether he did not pay attention to them before the deal, Lapid's arrogance overthrew him.
Half a year after the formation of the government, he behaved like Netanyahu after five years, and lost caution.
He paid the price yesterday.
Beyond the immediate political calculations, there is a much more significant in-depth insight.
Silman's resignation from the right, and Zoabi's resignation from the left, sharpen the extent to which the government before us is not a unity government.
It is a government of extremes, which excludes considerable sections of the people.
This is the root of its shakiness.
The government has not brought about change or healing, and now it is also paralyzed in the Knesset - just as its members argued against Netanyahu.
After three years, has not the time come for a brave group of MKs to stand up and restore stability and sanity to our lives?
Were we wrong?
Fixed!
If you found an error in the article, we'll be happy for you to share it with us
