A thin line differentiates between an official party-political discourse, and a value discourse regarding the character of the State of Israel, which is also a political discourse. We say a line is thin, but the current cynical politics does not even recognize a thin line. For the current politics, everything is party politics, and there is no other discourse in Israeli existence, why? Because in a partisan political discourse, the administrations victory is guaranteed, since this discourse is infected and not simple & practical, in the historical context of the social development of Israel's rise. That is, if a newspaper writes a certain thing, one must assess the partisan direction of the wording of the text, and quickly determine the partisan political position of the writer. And especially the partisan political motive. And that's the look of it all.

I remember one time 26 years ago, when I was in the office of then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and I asked him, "Are you not afraid?" Now when the country is in turmoil and publics and communities are confronting each other, and with every irresponsible statement of yours, more secularists and ultra-Orthodox are against each other, leading to an outburst of ultra-Orthodox anger towards the Supreme Court? Doesn't the irresponsible talk that could lead to a civil and political breakdown scare you?

And what did Mr. Prime Minister reply? The man whose (equally) irresponsible regional policy has brought Iran to the brink of a nuclear bomb, and will surely be required to give explanations in a state commission of inquiry? The person who brought cynicism to Israeli politics, to a country that is fighting for its life, and that any public error could bring it from the cliff to the abyss? The prime minister simply waved his hand, rolled it in the air, and with a face full of disdainful expression, hissed the words of vanity: Leave it, it's all politics.

Benjamin Netanyahu's words should of course not be interpreted as the truth, neither then nor now when he is putting together the Ben Gvir coalition (and intends to change the Basic Law so that Aryeh Deri will be minister, you should read it twice), but as the need of Benjamin Netanyahu and the coalition he is now establishing , to place any discourse that expresses concern about the direction in which Israel is going, in the governmental party political arena, because in this way of public speech, this coalition, which has a black flag flying over it, has an excellent explanation: the public chose us.

True, the public chose them, and of course that must be respected. But the public did not choose the destruction of the democratic regime in Israel. no way. On the contrary, a recently published survey made it clear that the majority of the public, including those who voted for the right, are opposed to harming the judiciary; And we add: for all the reasons for which the public chose the extreme right (cf. here previous articles on the value destruction of Eastern Jewry, for example), it under no circumstances chose to distort the balance of power between the legal and party public systems in such a way that politicians could do as they pleased without a legal restriction which This is the cornerstone of the democratic regime. This is the foundation of the State of Israel, and of the dream of the rise of the Jews in their land, and this foundation did not stand up to election and did not stand up to a referendum. There were empty slogans about the judiciary (and there were also correct diagnoses), but the discussion about their deep meaning, regarding the political revival of Israel, was not even opened. What's more, there is no non-partisan political institution worthy of such a discussion (see our previous proposal to change the public structure, and to establish a supreme elected house, an ethical authority, Beit Atseret Am).

The Israeli public recognizes the reality of the life of its state Israel, and it is completely clear to them that an attack on the democratic regime, in the arena of the very sensitive communities that make up Israel, means the moral and then physical destruction of the State of Israel; The patriotic Israeli public who fought and sacrificed so much for the freedom and liberties of the Jews and therefore of their country and for the rise of the Jews in their land of Israel, certainly does not want this. And no dismissive hand waving has changed and will not change this basic fact. One only has to read the ancient and modern writings of Israel to understand this. (And Benjamin Netanyahu is an educated person and a devout reader).

Therefore, any Israeli body or organization whose origins are rooted in the partisan political arena, and which it refers to by its very nature, should now hold back, and should beware of falling into the trap of the far-right coalition that wanted to transfer the discourse to the partisan governmental political arena, instead of where it should be in the political value arena.