"Give them something to show them that you are a democrat," the defense minister pleaded with the prime minister before dismissing the reasonableness grounds. Netanyahu did not give, he is leading regime change in all its derivatives. He refused to meet with the chief of staff before the law was passed, and did not heed Galant's urging to show "them" – that is, us, the Israeli public – that he is a democrat.
The wave of sweetness that erupted from the "moderates" has brought a blush to the cheeks of hundreds of thousands of protesters for 30 weeks in a row: Maybe the "revolt against the Likud" is working. But the heroes for a moment – Akunis, Kish and Dichter – holding the hem of the leader's robe, revealed that this was the king's order and that he was naked. Danino explained well from the "moderates": We are against a rift in the nation, but there is a faction decision and we will always vote according to it. Gallant realized: "It's not the right thing to do, but I will accept the majority position." But this is not the majority position – it is the position of a leader acting against his people, his country, his party and his base.
Netanyahu is not submissive to the Levin-Rothman camp, he is its leader. The strategist goes beyond his generals, trying to put the protest to sleep. Last time he did it through the President's House. To explain to his ministers who were eager for battle, he came to the cabinet meeting with a book about Alexander the Great and told about the Battle of Chironea: Alexander the Great's father, Philip II, ordered a tactical retreat to the right flank to pull the Athenian warriors in - and then charge and strike them, the historian explained.
So, a tactical withdrawal ended with the passage of the most extreme wording of the cause of reasonableness. And today - talk of unity before the storming of the Judicial Selection Committee. The battle chosen by Netanyahu is the battle in which the Macedonians defeated the only democracy in the ancient world, Athenian democracy. After him there was no more democratic rule for many centuries, and came the sole rule of Alexander the Great.
Alexander's teacher was the philosopher Aristotle, who taught him the theory of regimes. There are three forms of reasonable rule - the rule of the individual, the few and the many. Good government is one in which rulers rule for the good of their people. Bad rule is one in which they rule for their own sake.
Netanyahu is turning a democratic government that governs for the public into a single government that governs for itself.
Well, Netanyahu, is this your last battle, in which you will crush the only democracy in the Middle East?
The right is no less democratic than the center or the left. The Likud has always been a national-liberal party in the spirit of Jabotinsky and Begin. Therefore, Galant and Edelstein, Gamliel and Dichter, Barkat, Kish and Akunis, Bitan and Danon should be called on not to hide behind the "majority decision of the faction" in an imaginary vote. Isn't it time to stand up as a third of a faction and say to Netanyahu: Either an immediate meeting of the committee for selecting judges under the rules of the game customary in Israel, or joining the majority of MKs who want a Jewish and democratic state?
You can do something for the state and the people: Netanyahu testifies that he is not a democrat. History will judge you, together and separately. A Jewish and democratic Israel is the infrastructure shared by the vast majority of Israeli citizens, and certainly by the Likud base. Take action.
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