On much less than what is happening now, Nir Orbach declared in the previous government that "the experiment failed," and continued to snowball until the end of the Bennett-Lapid government.
What did that experiment fail for? Mazen Ghanaim of Ra'am voted contrary to the coalition's position on extending the Judea and Samaria regulations. If Orbach declared that the experiment had failed on a Knesset vote, what would members of the "full-right" coalition say about the terror rampage throughout Israel?
Members of the government. Failed, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
When you say "full-fledged right-wing government" you mean mainly an iron hand, harsh military responses, a zero-tolerance policy. But during the three months of a "full-right" government, the State of Israel has suffered gunfire in the north, gunfire in the south, brothers and sisters rising in a painful storm to heaven, murderous attacks, riots on the Temple Mount, terrorists from East Jerusalem, and erosion of deterrence. All of these are the result of a policy of containment.
It is true that it is impossible to change the security reality in just three months. But it is no less difficult to explain the dozens of comments and tweets by members of the current coalition attacking the previous government for incompetence, for handcuffs because of Mansour Abbas, for soft responses, weakness and weakness.
The car of the terrorists stops, one of them fires from the window: documentation of the attack in the Jordan Valley // The use is made in accordance with section 27A of the Copyright Law
The result test determines
The right base is screaming - did you promise? Exist. Can't sustain? So what did you promise? If it was just about security, that's enough. Quite a few right-wing voters believe, even before the current round of security, that the experiment failed, or at least that this is not what they thought would happen in a right-wing government. It is true that most of the media is mobilized, that the protests are fueled and that the PR campaign fails, and yet what counts is the test of the outcome.
In the test of results: the economy has taken a hit, the cost of living is showing no signs of easing, relations with the United States are in question, governance is stuck in quarrels between the minister and the police, and even the crowning glory – judicial reform – has been managed calmly and has caused such significant social damage that even right-wingers wonder whether appointing two conservative, overcoming or senority judges is worth the fuss. Add to that the dismissal of Gallant and the classless flick-flick backwards – and you've got a particularly bitter feeling.
The demonstrations to protest the legal reform. Was it worth it 😊, Photo: Amir Goldstein
The only solution
One of the most important conclusions of recent years is clearer than ever: half-nation governments do not succeed. The Bennett-Lapid government left the Likud, the religious and the ultra-Orthodox out, and did not survive in the face of an effective and belligerent protest against Idit Silman, Nir Orbach and others. The right-wing government left the liberals, the center and the left out, and they took to the streets and set the country on fire with an effective protest, which halted the legislation and underscored the general sense of chaos.
There is a connecting line, and perhaps even a common solution, between tense security days, painful disasters, social rifts and a wobbly political situation – unity. Just unity.
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