This is no longer an issue of left versus right or coalition versus opposition: The train is going off the tracks. The ongoing dependency and reliance – of both political camps – on anti-Zionist parties who openly undermine the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state was demented from the start and has now been revealed as pure insanity. It is a threat to the Zionist and Jewish character of the state.
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Everyone is guilty. Those who wish to rely on these MKs – some of whom support terrorism – to keep the government afloat, and those who wish to bring down the government using the very same MKs. Some of whom we should recall went to Acre a year ago to stand by the rioters who torched buildings, murdered, and lynched Jews. One of them (Ahmed Tibi) even served in the past as an adviser to the mass murderer, Yasser Arafat.
The problem, let me stress, is not reliance on Arab MKs, but reliance on MKs who identify with our most bitter enemies. The fact that we have so quickly become used to this dependence, which is growing in legitimacy, is a certificate of poverty for all of us.
Only a year-and-a-half ago, such comportment by Zionist parties would have been incredulous and no one would even have imagined it. Most of us would have classified it on the spectrum between wild imagination and a nightmare. One could fill entire books with the promises by Bennett and Netanyahu that they would never rely on these parties. But both broke their vows. Netanyahu when he tried to establish a government and openly courted Mansour Abbas and his colleagues from the Israeli branch of the "Muslim Brotherhood" and Bennett who drove down the path paved by Netanyahu and broke down the gate.
This shift, more than it says anything about the anti-Zionist Arab parties, who have not changed, says a lot about us. The Zionist camp is now willing to compromise on its basic values and to couple the Zionist locomotive with anti-Zionist carriages that openly undermine the existence of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.
These carriages are leading the Zionist train off the tracks. It's happening on the Temple Mount, in the Negev, in the prioritization of budgets for various projects, and the agenda of the government. On the margins, it is also influencing Israel's foreign and defense policy. And this is just the beginning.
The longer dependence on these parties and their MKs continues, regardless of the political purpose – establishing a government, keeping that government afloat, or bringing that government down – their anti-Zionist appetite will only grow and this trend will grow deeper. Therefore, we require a new consensus that prioritizes the Jewish-Zionist collective over party factionalism led by the desire for victory over the opposing political camp. Whoever seeks to put power above everything, or opposing the ruling coalition above everything – even at the price of dependence on anti-Zionist elements, who often identify with the enemies of the state – will sooner or later lead to the end of the Zionist dream and reality of a state for all its citizens, the significance of which is clear for all to see: The end of the State of Israel as a Jewish-Zionist state.
The fact that those who would prefer the State of Israel did not exist are in a position of strength and hold the balance of power is a disaster. The only way to deal with this reality is to smash the existing political paradigms and alliances so that a new government arises in the Land of Israel whose agenda is Zionist and which is not threatened by the enemies of Zionism.
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