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Opinion | The Zoabi Affair: When National Honor Goes to Penalty | Israel today

2022-05-22T21:23:18.079Z


Lapid's reconciliation meeting with Zoabi and her escort entourage recorded a new low • We will probably never know what was really promised, and what will actually be given behind closed doors • Political blackmail is a final institution as a legitimate tool in this government


Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online.

The method is to constantly point out some catastrophic danger - now it is "Ben Gvir will be Minister of Internal Security", or "Tibi-Bibi government" - to justify emergency moves that would normally have been carried by black flag bearers in convoys to Jerusalem.

But in the Rinawi Zoabi affair, if this farce can be called that, a bottom line of bad taste has been crossed.

In the worlds of interpretation, anxiety has reached the fate of the government to the point of attaching the nickname "Bibist" to Rinawi Zoabi, and threats against Netanyahu, that is, leading a "violent and forceful camp" with the help of "his foolish followers."

The panic propaganda led to the prime minister going out of his way on Saturday night, dedicating an entire post to the historic importance of the "rescue government" he set up specifically to redeem the State of Israel from the disasters caused by the 12 years of camp he once claimed to lead.

At this time, the partner and brother, Yair Lapid, mobilized his followers for the war in the coalition ranks against the "dark forces" that threaten it.

There is no line of demonization and intimidation from Netanyahu, the Likud and his supporters that was not crossed last weekend.

Folding: MK Jida Rinawi Zoabi remains in the coalition // Photo: Oz Avital

So in war - all the more so in rescue war - as in war, do what is necessary.

Wow!

A few things have been done in the last year to save the rescue plant: budget line after budget line, waiver after waiver, blackmail after blackmail.

And yet, at Lapid's reconciliation conference with Zoabi and her escort entourage, a new low was recorded.


We will probably never know what was really promised behind closed doors, and what will actually be given.

Okay, let's call this "political bargaining."

Extortion is a final institution as a legitimate tool in this government.

Oh well.

But how is it that the Israeli government gets down on its knees to beg for its return to a coalition of a figure who was reportedly quite close to being disqualified from representing the state in the diplomatic service - due to its reservations about Israel's core values?

The Israeli government is on its knees.

Bennett and Lapid (archive), Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The coalition claims the camp is "violent and forceful."

Netanyahu and Ben Gvir, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon, Yehoshua Yosef

The question arises, did Bennett and Lapid even bother to read the contents of Zoabi's letter of resignation before sending their representatives to "resolve the crisis"?

Did they understand the meaning of her reasoning?

No, what's troubling about the story is not (just) the money or the budget or anything that Yair Lapid used to do.

What should activate the anger instinct is the world of values ​​of Rinawi Zoabi;

The things she says and thinks.

Any Zionist government with a minimal backbone would refuse to enter into negotiations with it.

on the contrary.

Let's leave.

But not Bennett and Lapid, who in the mission of their lives to save Israel from the Likud and Netanyahu, commit - and keep - to "do everything" to bring Rinawi Zoabi home.

And her return home are embodied for official confirmation and symbolic acceptance into the statehood of her worldview, the one that does not remember the national anthem, and the one for which the month of Ramadan was "unbearable" because of "violent police on the Temple Mount" - and not because of an incitement and terror campaign that ended in 19 Israelis.

Rinawi Zoabi went up to the State Department to meet with Lapid, but the feeling was that national honor was going to be fined.

Were we wrong?

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Source: israelhayom

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