United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus earned the coalition's ire on Monday when a recording of him threatening the Supreme Court surfaced in a media report.
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The first post that popped up in my feed was Yesh Adit MK Karine Elharrar's, in which she hastily took a screenshot of the report and warned: "We are the last stronghold against such a government."
Soon, the rest followed. "I won't allow you and your associates to carry out your dangerous fantasies," Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar insisted.
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli took it even further, saying "The opposition is trying to annihilate the Jewish and Democratic State of Israeli."
It has been less than a year since the unity government took office and it is running a gevald campaign. The level of credibility of this supposed threat is the same as in the promise of those who dissolve their political party hours before the election.
It is not particularly credible because some members of the coalition itself have gained popularity for promising to take care of the institutions in a matter Likud and its associates never dared. I remember one political due that in one sentence promised to "defeat the Supreme Court" and "defeat Hamas."
I also remember who first came up with the notion of bulldozing the Supreme Court with a D9. It was former IDF colonel Moti Yogev, who was a lawmaker for the Habayit Hayehudi at the time. And who was the chairman of the coalition at the time? Now-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
The Supreme Court perseveres proudly, and meanwhile, the government seems to fail to notice their gevald campaign, which put us in terrible danger, if, Heaven forbid, the empire falls. The message is clear: If there is an election, "they" will win, and "we," the government of change, will almost certainly lose. Accept us as a "no other choice" government. Perhaps instead, we should ask ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place.
We are approaching the one-year birthday of the government of healing, and there is very little to be proud of. The coalition rides the wave of enthusiasm that has remained from "having succeeded to bring about a change," as Foreign Minister Yair Lapid put it on Independence Day, and fear of the "monstrous alternative," as Arab Israeli Meretz MK Issawi Frej put it.
Above all, this government lacks a unified vision of our future, or at least a common ideal that could light the way. Refraining from taking a stand is negligence, and the events of the last month also prove that we have nowhere to run.
This leadership vacuum is filled with a pro-"unity" and anti-"division" rhetoric, which has recently made a U-turn. In this case, too, the government struggles with setting a personal example. You see, one cannot inspire others to quit smoking if one is known to take the not-so-occasional puff.
When in less than a year, the coalition loses a minister (Eli Avidar), a coalition chairman (Idit Silman), and an entire political party (Ra'am), and when MKs Nir Orbach and Yair Golan have a feud on social media, and MKs Abir Kara and Shirly Pinto provide ultimatums – one can really see the "unity" that characterizes this government.
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