How convenient for a coalition that has types in the opposition like Ofer Kasif or Ahmad Tibi.
When they are documented beating police officers or interfering with them in the performance of their duties, the belligerent tone can be vented.
Prime Minister Bennett and Homeland Security Minister Bar-Lev can severely condemn the crossing of the line and back the police and security forces, while Deputy Minister Avir Kara is already collecting signatures for Kasif's removal in light of his "anti-Israel behavior."
But the commotion surrounding Kasif's slap at the cop is nothing more than an effective laundry hideout for another embarrassment.
Silver is the same silver, and Tibi is the same Tibi - both are located at the far end of the substantive opposition, and are tired of being recognized for their prominent, overt and consistent defiance of the core values of Israeli statehood;
The same statehood that the government of change has vowed to restore.
If you already want to pretend to be shocked by anti-Israel and contempt for the security forces, it is worth doing so around a figure for whom a "political accident" has opened the door to the State Hall.
The reference is to a tweet by MK Walid Taha, who stated: “How ugly and miserable the face of the damned occupation!
The occupation also murdered Sheerin Abu Akala, remembered in blessing, in cold blood, and also prevented the masses of participants from mourning her death. "
A right-wing man, MK Nir Orbach, immediately responded that "the basic mistake is in the word 'occupation'" and "enough with false terminology", which drew a response from his coalition member, Meretz member Musi Raz, who recommended that he review "the definition of occupation before you He claims that there is no such thing. "
Although Taha made sure to attribute the journalistic "murder" to an abstract essence - the "damned occupation" - it sometimes happens that abstract signs have tangible signs: the occupation is the State of Israel, and its operatives are the soldiers and the security forces.
And they, implied that every toddler is capable of tapping, in the role of actual killers.
Acknowledge that this is a much more ringing slap in the face, mainly because it lands on the cheek of the chairman of the Interior Committee of the Knesset of Israel.
The explanatory damage here is marginal;
The Israeli government also presents a somewhat ambivalent stance regarding the killing of the journalist.
More disturbing is the truth that Walid Taha grew up from a land that is not fundamentally different from that of Kasif or Tibi.
And the fact that it is precisely these two, and not Taha, that takes the coalition leaders out of their serenity suggests something profound: we can tell ourselves an Orientalist tale of "bad Arabs" and "good Arabs," but the reality is that the coalition partnership with an Arab party did not bring the expected historic turn.
Just like in Oslo: the leaders lament the acceptance of the "other" narrative and compliment each other on the "courage" to make a change, but down here the tension between the groups is only getting worse, and the violence in recent months is deepening suspicion.
Stoning in mosques, rage marches, T-shirts with guns, and we have not yet begun to digest, as a society, the meaning of terrorist attacks coming from Hura and Umm al-Fahm.
Mansour Abbas is a brave leader, knocking on the coalition table, but we do not feel it here.
vice versa.
The government's dependence on RAAM adds sin to crime: When the coalition succumbs to RAAM's budgetary demands only to gain another temporary finger in the plenum, it paints the Israeli Arabs, reluctantly, as sending their representatives as a cynical and extortionate pressure group recognizing weakness, not as determined Fight for coexistence for heaven's sake.
Is that what the partnership is all about?
Restrained by venomous rhetoric and budget transfers?
In this way, the government of change destroys the vision of a coalition partnership between Jews and Arabs and gives it a bad name, a bit like Ehud Barak destroyed Oslo to the left.
Do not be surprised if like him, the change government will also ask for credit at the end for proving that there is no partner.
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