What hasn't happened in the last week? Which campaign promise has not been broken? What law, rule or custom has not been thrown into the political trash can? And mostly, which new heights has the Israeli parliament reached thanks to Blue and White's alliance with Yisrael Beytenu and the Joint List?
A coalition with the Joint Arab List as an optional vote has been established and used "more than once" now; the Arrangements Committee has been set up against Knesset bylaws and the Joint List has been allowed to head a committee that is responsible for bereaved families..
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Facing neither media nor public barriers this week, this camp's appetite is growing by the minute. Even more so, the High Court of Justice has kindly provided it with the last nail of the coffin of democracy, forcing the Knesset speaker to resign for the first time in Israel's history.
And what about the way Blue and White is going about is? It only has one path, only one political move: establishing a shadow government at the Knesset's expense. As we have already been made to see, Blue and White will not "carry the political gurney", even when Israel lays wounded on top of it. Difficult times don't call for difficult measures, it seems. On the contrary, Blue and White's purpose is to establish a new Executive Branch at the Knesset's expense, fully subordinated to the Judiciary, with the sole public purpose of laying landmines in the way of the ones who carry the national gurney.
And at the end of that road, its purpose is to lead this battered and bruised country to yet another elections, after a series of anti-democratic laws finally anchoring what many in the Right already think: some Israelis are first-class citizens while others are second-class citizens, and the latter don't really have freedom of choice.
All of this raises another question: are there no 10 lawmakers among the 61-MK majority who are horrified at the utter disregard Blue and White is showing to our parliamentary system of government; at their undermining of the relationship between the opposition and the coalition, between the Executive Branch and the and the Legislature and between them both and the Judiciary? Is there no one saint who opposes this move? On the contrary, the left-center-Liberman-Joint List, backed by the media, is closing ranks.
We have seen it all before in major forks in the road, like the 1993 Oslo Accords and the 2005 disengagement. We have seen and heard it all, but have yet to learn the lesson. Because the Right is full of saints; ones who brought down governments that were "not right-wing enough" or that were the first to blink in the coalition game.
The Left crushes every remnant of unity, and the Knesset speaker, a Likud lawmaker, ends up being the one to step down fearing a civil war.
The coming days and weeks will be difficult. The coronavirus pandemic only raises the stakes and the Right will come under pressure to splinter and yield, and to clear the path for the Left's fallacies. But the Right must, once and for all, close ranks and display airtight unity. It is time for the Right to remember the past, clearly understand the present, and remain united for a better future.
