WhatsappTranslated from the Hebrew, written by Dr. Ran Baratz in Makor Rishon.
Corona or not Corona, after lying to his constituents in the election, Gantz and his Blue & White party on the left now smell power and is not stopping at anything to seize power
The “Just Not Bibi” bloc has a significant and deserved recognition: 61 seats. And as always when it comes to the left, there is no consideration of practice, fairness, propriety, honesty or public visibility that will stop them from fulfilling the only agenda of interest to members of the bloc: just not Bibi.
In stark contrast to her repeated promises before the election, Blue & White relies on the support of all the members of the Arab parties, including the most radical and anti-Zionist. The slope on which they roll is particularly slippery. The day before the election, Boogie Ya’alon shouted “Enough with the lies!” on the claim that they intend to rely on the support of the Joint Arab list party; Immediately after the elections, Yair Lapid already changed the version to “we will only rely on their vote one-time”; And when Netanyahu raised the need for unity, Gantz’s first demand was that the Joint Arab List be in government as well. Within a few days, we had gone from “never,” to “only one vote,” to “swearing allegiance to one another.” It’s no longer a slippery slope, it’s a free fall.
Blue and white also trumps governing norms in the speed of Grand Prix racing. Now, in contrast to the usual practice, the party intends to appoint a Speaker of the Knesset on their behalf before a coalition is formed.
The party also flashed three anti-democratic laws: one restricts the prime minister’s term to two terms, the other discontinues the tenure of a prime minister who has been indicted, and the third prohibits the commissioning of a prime minister on an indicted MK.
As you know, an abandoned right-to-left debate about democracy. The left is inclined to argue that its essence is the protection of human rights and minorities, and the right sees democracy as a framework of rules that gives citizens political rights designed to exercise their sovereignty. The Blue and White Laws directly violate the political rights of Netanyahu’s supporters, who are a minority eight in this Knesset. Thus, they gain the rare status of laws that are considered anti-democratic on both the right and the left.
If we compare all this with the way the right is conducted, we immediately see, as the children say, that it is “not forces”. For example, for about four years, the Right has been thinking of “French law,” which rejects investigations against an incumbent prime minister at the end of his term. The right is hesitant, undecided, submits non-submissive, corrects, undecided, again submits non-submissive, and assures strictly: The law will not be retroactive, it will not be personal, it will not stop Netanyahu’s investigations, it will be soft as cotton, and we will In any way, God forbid, no harm will be done to the assistant of a junior clerk’s deputy. And after all that? Still dare not legislate. Like the same famous parable originating from the Mekhilta Derby Ishmael, the right also eats the stinking fish, both punished with lashes and expelled from the city.
In contrast, the left only recognizes a stub of opportunity, and immediately goes for massive space bombing. He enacts retroactive, personal, anti-democratic laws designed to end Netanyahu’s tenure. He breaks his election promises without blinking – and when he is heard, he cries out: “It’s racism!” As if he himself hadn’t promised two or three weeks ago not to look at the joint list. It tramples any parliamentary practice, and when implored that it does not violate the norms set by fair play rules, it grins to the heart of the sky; What is he running for in the elections, if not for exercising the power he received?
If the right had acted a little in the left’s resolve, Netanyahu’s investigations, which had consumed so much national resources and made Israel an even more dysfunctional state, would never have come. “When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk,” says “the ugly” in the famous spaghetti western “the good, the bad and the ugly.” But the right is even boring himself with tedious talk and debates, polemics and debates, purity and spitefulness that have been going on for ten years now, while the left shoots the bundles even before publishing the sample results, easy and material before being sworn into the Knesset.
The hand remained suspended
One might ask if the right is not behaving here properly and statefully, as it maintains the dignity and dignity of our political institutions, adheres to norms and is careful to make changes – even when it considers them necessary. Would we like to resemble the aggressive left, that nothing is sacred to him and whose purposes are sanctified by all means?
The answer is that, as with any conduct, there is a measure here. It is good that on the right one is acting decently and moving away from being sidetracked – to the point where it harms his political mission. The left-wing triviality is exaggerated and evil, but demonstrates its commitment to its voters, while the right, with the utmost rigor, fails to advance the agenda in its name. If what the Right has to show at the end of a decade of rule is mostly Hannah Babylonian manners and manners, then he is not a loyal representative of his public, which also requires achievement, reform and right-wing policy.
In the same matter, it is also worth noting that if the left-wing government emerges, and even for the short period of time it collapses, a burst of bureaucracy will emerge. The officials, including in the enforcement systems, will immediately be required to downsize to their positions as policy executives set by the ministers. Because the left glorifies officials as gatekeepers and “professional” and “expert” policymakers only as long as they serve as an auxiliary to right-wing policies. Once he takes power, the officials will return to be officials.
The differences between the right and the left are evident. Still, during these harsh days of Corona, politicians are required to rise above their ego and hostility and unite in an emergency government. So far I have divided the blame equally between right and left. Since then, Netanyahu has responded to the unity challenge and reached out to Gantz, but the left, including Lieberman, has continued with small political games, tricks and irresponsible propaganda. Only on Tuesday did Yair Lapid upload a video claiming that the order to stay in homes was given by an illegitimate government, with a strong implication that it was intended to serve Netanyahu politically and not to maintain public health.
The top of the blue and white, with the exception of Gabi Ashkenazi, is behaving with egoism, revenge and pettiness, which proves that the last thing we can do is to trust them in times of trouble and crisis. The right can learn determination from the left – but the left still has to learn national responsibility.
