The Torah Judaism party in its two parts, Agudat Yisrael and Degal HaTorah, this week provided a small glimpse into the midst of Bataria, but for me this glimpse ended with great dismay and disappointment.
A debate broke out between the two parts of the party.
He was probably just a trigger for some hostility that is there these days following the municipal elections, but he managed to light a small fire.
The chairman of Agudat Israel, Housing Minister Yitzchak Goldknopf of Agudat Israel, went to the trouble and participated in the settlement conference in the Gaza Strip organized by the parties of the strong right. He stood on the stage and delivered poignant words, from which it was implied that he supports the return to settlement in the Gaza Strip, recalling the words of Rabbi Yitzhak Barashi the first On the Torah, he told about his visit to the Gush Katif museum and stated that he and his party will support any initiative in this spirit of the Knesset.
It was a disjointed speech, which for a few moments sounded as if the person making it was the Minister of Housing of a friendly country in the world who came to visit Israel - the mention of the visit to the museum, the quoting of Rashi's words, and above all the expression of a political position by the chairman of a party on his own accord and without consulting its other members .
And maybe the members' opinion is not comfortable with this position?
And maybe she is comfortable, but does anyone out there understand that the timing is wrong?
And above all, there is quite a bit of pathos in the Minister of Housing's great enthusiasm for the issue of returning to settlement in Gush Katif, which is quite clear because there is not a single voter of his who would build his house there, let alone fight for this right.
Degal Torah's response, which is mainly attributed to MK Gafni, is indeed something in this spirit, but it contains, especially in its wording ("What do we have to do with this political-political conflict"), much of the impudence and turning a blind eye that characterize Degal Torah's style whenever issues are on the table security and policy.
This position of "what is wrong with us and that" is no longer a legitimate position.
She is embarrassing.
"What about us and that?"
- First of all, life in Israel is for us and for each other.
But it's not only that.
Gafni's disregard for the fact that a large majority of his voters, and certainly and certainly of the united party, are extreme political right-wing - is an eyesore.
Even if none of them will go to settle in the new Neve Dekalim, a large majority of them support the positions of the distinct right.
It is true that there are some leftists who are amused by some ancient headline that quotes Rabbi Shech as saying "Territory in exchange for peace", but that was in distant and irrelevant days, and by the way, even then it was a minority opinion based on the desire to differ.
Gafni's disregard for the fact that a large majority of his voters, and certainly and certainly of the united party, are extreme political right-wing - is an eyesore.
Even if none of them go to settle in the new Neve Dekalim, a large majority of them support the positions of the distinct right
The heads of the Torah banner can express themselves as they please, the ultra-orthodox alliance with the parties of the strong right is stronger than ever.
She was always strong.
Now, after the last years of controversy and after the October 7 disaster, it is cast iron.
It is possible to discuss what came first: the security-policy concepts of identity, or the minority alliance and the ideological sacrifice on the subject of the state's Jewishness.
Either way, Goldknopf's presence at the settlement conference was perhaps unnecessary, but completely natural for him.
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