by MK Benny Gantz, Chairman, Israel Resilience Party
Tel Aviv, November 27 - Consensus among non-fascists has it that Bibi Netanyahu has to go, either because he presides over an alleged genocide, or because his corruption and cynicism have sabotaged the integrity of Israeli democracy - and of course the pressure from progressives abroad puts wind in the sails of his opponents here in Israel. Of course they then undermine us as a growing alternative to his megalomania by pushing for a Netanyahu indictment in The Hague for war crimes, which forces the Israeli Left - even the center-left - to close ranks with him, lest we alienate a public that understands that they, not the prime minister, are the primary target, with Netanyahu merely a proxy for all of Israel.
What we wanted, and for so long thought lay within our grasp, was to ride the international disgust for Netanyahu into office, as we sought to coopt left-wing NGO activism and the thinly-veiled antisemitism of the Global Left for our own purposes. It seemed so close, so tantalizing. Then the Global Left shot us in the foot - us, the only faction with any real chance of deposing Netanyahu, a historically unpopular premier embattled by scandal after scandal, responsible for the intelligence and conceptual lapses that led to the current war.
Thanks, "allies."
You might ask, "Will this episode, nay, this recurring phenomenon, of the leftist mask slipping to reveal the true agenda of the international progressive coalition as the destruction of Jewish sovereignty, which offends the intersectional sensibilities of those who never let go of the notion, conditioned into western society, of Jews, collectively, as the source of all ills, at long last disabuse Israel's Left, or at least its center-left, of any hope for true leftist solidarity and constructive collaboration that does not involve the ulterior motive of destroying Israel?"
Do not make me laugh. We are Netanyahu's opponents. We do not learn from our mistakes. We double and triple down on them. He has survived this long because of his skill as a politician, yes, but also in large part because of his enemies' terrific incompetence and failure to read the room. For decades, the Israeli Left could not bring itself, in its hubris, to even acknowledge that the entire premise of its precious Oslo process was egregiously, existentially wrong, and that the electorate was punishing them for that willful blindness; do you seriously think we will let go of the ego-stroking affirmation we get from European diplomats and "human rights" activists when we offer to serve as the Good Jews, as opposed to those Bad Jews who refuse to go along with the genocidal Islamist program?
Exactly.
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