The Left loves to accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of political paralysis, but it is unwilling to reflect on its own actions and realize how its leaders are abandoning all morals and values to achieve their goal.
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What we are witnessing is one of the most delusional political approaches in our history, for the Left is convinced that the moment Netanyahu is out, all Israel's problems will be solved.
There will be no more poverty, no more inequality, the periphery will receive bountiful resources and investments, gaps in the health care system will disappear, as will racism and the exclusion of Israeli Arabs. And the cherry on top, the justice system will become more just and fair in an instant.
This is the Left's view, in short. It is this belief that allows its leaders to accept Yamina head Naftali Bennett as prime minister without skipping a beat. In a single day, the person who came up with the "Singapore Plan" became a coveted ally, and the historic partnership between religious Zionist and left-wing parties is beginning to reemerge.
But has anything really changed? If you strip class interests down to their essence and remove the ideological aspects, those interests are largely similar.
Behind a vast portion of the "Anyone but Bibi" movement lies a class alliance, an echo of the time when the interests of the socialist Left to a large degree overlapped those of the Mizrahi movement. Both spoke of such values as socialism and a welfare state.
In contrast, the present religious Zionism values the free market and capitalism more than building settlements. One look at the Singapore Plan makes it clear.
It is no wonder that Bennett's "alliance of brothers" was formed, first and foremost, with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, a representative of the upper-middle class, an established political leader from the center of the country. The Left is even willing to give up the appearance of a social-democratic welfare state.
How did hatred towards Netanyahu become the glue that keeps such opposing ideologies together? Simple. Behind that hatred lies also, or perhaps primarily, disgust towards his supporters. This is class alienation, which is also not devoid of an ethnic aspect.
Looking at the entire spectrum of the anti-Netanyahu bloc, one struggles to find a true leftist, one that represents first and foremost the poor, the working class, and the periphery.
No leadership is brave enough to abandon class connections in favor of a leftist economic approach that would free Israel from its marginalizing and racist politics. From Meretz to Yamina, it is the class interest that overrides ideology.
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