The video of Gilad Sharon's official announcement about joining the Likud list in the preliminary election race is 51 seconds long.
This is a fairly routine video: Sharon looks at the camera and presents his opinion, why he deserves to be included in the Likud list for the Knesset.
There is a repetition of words like "security" and "the national camp", jabs at Bennett's right and Avirah parties, a statement that "the Palestinians are not believed" and promises of a free but compassionate economy.
Sharon is of course not unique, worthy videos like this and less from candidates in the primaries for the Likud list are currently the most common animal in the political landscape.
But Gilad Sharon is not an ordinary candidate.
Beyond the family baggage and his genealogy, Sharon carries with him a history of personal, dominant and important involvement in the policies and actions of his father, Ariel Sharon, and these should disqualify him not only from candidacy for Likud and any right-wing party, but from the political system in general.
Here is a reminder of Gilad Sharon's plots:
In 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon carried out the disengagement plan, while trampling on all his promises during the election period, creating an artificial coalition and even using opposition parties eager to hit the settlers in order to preserve his government and his plan. This plan was baked, designed and operated from Sharon's famous farm forum The father - a forum in which his son, Gilad the candidate, was a significant element.
As far as the evacuation of Gush Katif settlements and the political logic behind the plan is concerned, it may be possible to forget or forgive, if we assume for a second the unimaginative thesis that the essence of the plan was to rescue the Sharon family from criminal investigations.
The evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip carried an internal logic that is conceivable;
Many on the right - personalities like Netanyahu, Dichter and others - saw the plan as a reasonable risk, and the public also had extensive support for the plan and for Ariel Sharon.
The problem is what happened around the program.
At the same time as the evacuation, a gruesome show was held by the creator of the farm forum, which also fueled the fire.
Israel's enforcement systems conducted an operation to suspend democracy;
Thousands were arrested and detained;
Blacklists were prepared by the Shin Bet against innocent civilians, demonstrators were beaten, and a wave of venomous demonization against opponents of the plan swept the media in an active vortex of the Israeli establishment, which included vicious briefings that came straight from Sharon's office. Gilad Sharon was complicit in all of these by act or omission, and the worst of all He doesn't even have the sense to be sorry, he didn't bother to apologize,
to strike for sin or to consider doing soul-searching.
Now, in an act bordering on satirical, he asks the people who were thrown into the detention cells with their families to help him enter the Knesset.
Gilad Sharon should be persona non grata in any party that values freedom, liberty and democracy in Israel.
Trusting those who see no problem with dictatorial conduct in front of innocent citizens, moves on the scale between innocence and stupidity.
It is not about revenge or settling accounts, but about the need to come to a political reckoning with those who live in peace with the denial of civil rights, mass arrests or political persecution.
To delete all of these requires much more than a 51-second video.
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