Despite the endless war, and the rivers of blood, Israel and its modern forms have tried in their 170 years, including seventy-five years of the independence of the State of Israel, to maintain the image of the public who dreamed for two thousand years of a deeply free, pluralistic, peace-seeking, egalitarian state. What is amazing, and considering the murderous reality, is that Israel most of the time and in part of the value space, also succeeded in this.

In the value sense, the influence of the ancient dream on the return of Zion was less successful; Although the dream prevailed in all communities of Israel, for thousands of years, and its main intellectual support was in the Jewish East, still, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, during the awakening to the return of Zion, the Ashkenazi racial attack against the East in Judaism took place. This attack affected the Israeli democracy that was born out of the awakening, especially starting in 1977, when the recognition of the injustice permeated the second generation of the Eastern communities and brought them to respond; One response was the Eastern organized crime that emerged in the early 1970s. Another response is the biased vote to the political right, mainly out of the need to gather under a political definition or political recognition. But despite all this, Israeli democracy is still not broken. She began the process of correcting the social and cultural injustice, and she lasted.

The influence of the ancient dream on the war was and remains very deep, and despite the horrors of the war, and all its confusions and tragic results, still, even on this level, Israel remains a democratic country, which fights as a democratic country fights, according to international conventions, and according to original Israeli values ​​and laws of war With a seniority of thousands of years, from which the values ​​of modern warfare were derived, for example the purity of weapons and instructions to open fire.

But even if Israeli democracy held up well, the internal and external events weighed on it. For example, the form of the Palestinian war, in which in large part assassins ambush unarmed civilians, including helpless children, butcher and shoot them from the ambush; A form of war that there is probably no democratic country in the world that would not fail to respond to it. Israel most of the time did not fall to this low. But reality affected her and gave birth to people like Ben Gvir with extreme political views.

Recently, the electoral failure increased: the horrors of the war, along with the eastern electoral bias, united the two deficiencies, on the one hand the eastern anger and on the other the social and political result of the war that brought extremism to the heart of the consensus, to the rule of an electoral act. The captive eastern electorate radicalized its positions, while the fourth equality between the political blocs, brought up a legal government, Lapid Bennett, but one that acted contrary to its stated political beliefs when it was established, headed by an inexperienced prime minister, who does not have a strong and influential political base, and is managing as one man show, an atmospheric party that could at any moment double its strength or disintegrate.

We wrote about these two political motives, about Ben Gvir's strengthening which in our eyes expressed the value destruction of the East, and on the other hand about the agreement that the inexperienced Lapid signed with Lebanon, which gave Hezbollah and Iran a victory, we wrote here in the last two weeks in preparation for the 5th election. But even though we wrote, even our lines from which the conclusion was in terms of writing on the wall, still this writing did not penetrate to the end to our knowledge, and we also estimated that even in the five elections equality would be maintained. It did not happen. The destruction of Eastern values ​​did indeed change the picture, and to it was added the failure of the Lapid government in the naval negotiations with Lebanon. Hezbollah and Iran talked to Israel on the war level, while the Lapid government talked to Lebanon/Hezbollah on the political and commercial level. A distinct dialogue of the deaf. The public wants justice That Israel will talk to war mongers, in their language, and not submit to ultimatums and finger pointing.

Now the question is, will the expected coalition do what the wars did not do, and the Ashkenazi racial attack against the East did not do? Will the coalition of Deri and Netanyahu topple Israeli democracy into the abyss? Will it destroy the separation of powers that is the foundation of the democratic regime? Will it bring about the changes that our political commentator, former vice president of the Central District Court, Avraham Yaakov, warns about in the opening article this week?

we don't know But, if necessary, we will turn to the Supreme Court in cooperation with many others. And if necessary, we will be called to take to the streets.