We are 70 days out from an election, but it appears that nothing of substance has been debated on the airwaves.

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This means that strategic questions that could very well shape the future of our children and grandchildren are put aside while we focus on various electoral gimmicks and political fluff.

Just several days ago a barely noted decision was reported in the papers. The Knesset's Special Committee on Arab Society Affairs decided, with only one member present at the vote, to allocate tens of millions of shekels for a program that would help prevent violence and reduce disparities. Just several weeks earlier, that same committee (and its single member present) approved a budget of 200 million shekels ($60 million) for a small Arab town because some of the Arab MKs in the coalition made this a condition for their continued support of the government. With those two small steps, the taxpayers had to bid farewell to 250 million shekels ($73 million).

The attempts to put more strings attached to such budgets failed due to political pressure by Arab parties, essentially paving the way for crime organizations to win the tenders and get the funding. 

The heads of the State Party Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar said in their merger deal that the goal of the newly formed electoral bloc was to prevent a bi-national state. But they are part of a government that has given Palestinian nationalists unprecedented ministerial powers and has moved Israel in that very direction. Their party may want to create a more "stately" Isreal but in the process, they will make it much less Zionist. 

Israel is gradually being reduced to what was originally planned under the 1947 Partition Plan, but this time it the government's own making. It is also because the Israel Land Authority, which decides on zoning matters, is blinded by its pursuit of profit rather than national interests.

It has made it all but impossible to expand Jewish communities in the Galilee, but at the same time greenlighted an unprecedented plan to bolster Arab villages and cities in the same area. The Arab city of Sakhnin will double in size by 2040, as will several other Arab communities nearby. Meanwhile, the applications by Jewish communities to develop their by expanding their urban footprint have been rejected time and again. In southern Israel, polygamous marriages between local Arab residents and Palestinian women have sucked the state's resources for funding of social services, with fake divorces that follow. 

Most of the Israeli public is not fully aware of the extent of the land grab of the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria, nor are Israelis aware of the massive funding the EU provides for elements that promote this effort, with the goal of establishing a Palestinian state on the majority of the land there. 

If Israel doesn't wake up, its eastern border will be Route 6. The so-called "security-oriented political center"  have been warning of a binational state but in practice has been championing of a policy that would keep Jewish presence largely along the coast rather than have a contiguous Jewish presence on the real eastern border, the Jordan Valley, and the Judea Desert. 

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I did everything I could in recent months so that the Yamina Knesset list would garner a significant number of votes in the elections and Naftali Bennett would be Israel's prime minister. I believed in him, his integrity, and his love for Israel and Zionism, and I supported him with all my might. Even at this time, it is completely clear to me that his intentions are good. Yet this is not the path.

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You said loudly and clearly: "I won't be prime minister with 10 mandates. That not moral, and it's not democratic." To my mind, you are right. The premiership should express massive public support, public support we didn't earn.

Every decision you make as prime minister will require the de facto approval of the Yesh Atid party, a party that is three times as large as Yamina but shares none of its founding principles - not on questions of the relationship between the legislative and judicial authorities or questions of policy or public security.

There is no real agreement on issues concerning the State of Israel's DNA either. Yesh Atid is identified with President Reuven Rivlin's talk of a "collection of tribes" and opposes the nation-state law. Yamina, on the other hand, has no qualms about the State of Israel's definition as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

One week before the election, you explicitly wrote: "Share so we can fight the fake news. Bibi's spin is an absolute lie." You said: "These are my principles for the next government: 1. Lapid will not be prime minister. I am a man of the Right, as are a majority of voters. 2. The next government that will be established will be a right-wing government. 3. We will establish a right-wing government that cares."

In retrospect, it turns out the spin was Yamina's: Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid will be prime minister, and although a majority of Yamina's voters are members of the Right, the government that will be established tomorrow is a government of the center-left, with the addition of a few fig leaves from the Right. Yamina broke a majority of its promises to voters, through the gross violation of the most basic of democratic codes: Tell the truth to voters and make an honest effort to meet your commitments to them.

Now for the significance of the decision to establish a left-wing government: From a societal standpoint, this is in no way a "unity" government, but rather an elitist government that excludes over a million right-wing voters while offering a stinging slap in the face to the lower classes and the traditional Jewish sector, portions of which supported us forcefully and now find themselves in a state of shock.

When it comes to the balance of power between the legislative and judicial branches, we are handing the State Attorney's Office and the judicial branch a victory. They have proven that through the use of show trials, an elected prime minister can be taken out of office, with no conviction necessary.

I would gladly be less suspicious of the judicial system, but remarks by its leaders, such as Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber and former State Attorney Shai Nitzan, don't leave much room for doubt as to their political motivations. In conclusion, with the forming of this government, we should expect to see the establishment of an incomparably strong judicial system.

In the international arena, let us not be mistaken: The establishment of a left-wing government that includes those who side with the International Criminal Court will be yet another blow to the nationalist-conservative axis. We should expect to see victory parties in Washington, Ramallah, the Gaza Strip, and above all else, Iran.

In the Talmud, there is an ancient commentary on the difference between a path that short and long and a path that is long and short. Unfortunately, Bennett has chosen the short path, and for that, we will all pay a price.

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