As a member of a generation that grew up on the "naughty drink trope", I like the image of hardness that describes the struggle between the parties.
It's nice to imagine Lapid sticking a plastic straw into the heart of the Labor Party, and shriveling it up like the bunch of grapes that we used to turn into a small aluminum ball as children and throw away in the shopping center.
In recent years, the left has given itself a powerful straw: the personal, legal, media and obsessive pursuit of Netanyahu and his family has made the left forget its important task: the formation and fulfillment of an orderly Mishna in an era when it became clear to most of the people of Israel that as far as the Palestinians are concerned, we have no partner.
As long as the left is satisfied with hating Netanyahu and his invented "bibists", it actually remains ideologically with the archaic two-state vision, and electorally it depends on the mercy of the Palestinians: if the territory is calm, the left may succeed in scraping another mandate, if not - and this, unfortunately, is the more common situation in Israel In the last 140 years - the left, without an ideology relevant to the post-Oslo era, will continue to shrink.
On the other side - all the characteristics that Mapa'i had in its heyday are today on the right: security hawkishness, commitment to the future of Zionism and settlement, affinity to Judaism and Hebrew culture and an ideological youth movement (Bnei Akiva). The destruction of the Mapa'i by Bennett and Shaked is also a golden opportunity for the right: It allows the Likud to join the moderate part of religious Zionism, and to position itself as continuing the path of the historical Mapai, only without the part of the combines in the Histadrut and the racism towards the Mizrahi ethnic group.
And so, through his sole fault, today the left is waging a crusader battle - it shoots arrows from the ivory towers it has left at specific targets in order to achieve tactical achievements, because the image of the entire battle cannot be changed without an ideology, which provides an answer to the reality of the jihad we are experiencing.
This is exactly what the chairman of the election committee, Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit, did last week: he shot an arrow at a single target - Amichai Shikli, and disqualified his candidacy on the Likud list. Why does Shikli justify such an effort on the part of the judge, who needed 37 pages of legal arguments to justify The fact that he is acting contrary to the unequivocal recommendations of the district court and the speaker of the Knesset?
Because Shikli is a clear symbol of the process of turning the Likud into a continuation of the historical Mapai: a kibbutznik, a fighter, a hawk, a head of a seminary, well-versed in the Jewish bookcase and an uncompromising ideologue, who did not deceive his voters. In short, Amichai Shikli is the "Safra and Seifa" of Shampa. She dreamed of him, and establishing his political home in Likud makes him a target worth a fellow Chief Justice wasting an arrow on.
Aharon Barak stated that the intent of the law is to prevent an MP who left his party from acting contrary to his promise to the voters for favors. In the case of Shikli, the other members of the faction broke their promises to the voter and received favors. Shikli remained loyal to his voters and outside the government. Judge Amit went out of his way to contradict his opinion His colleagues explicitly stated that he did not act against Shikli, but against the new Mapai.
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