The ink on the lamentations over the schisms that we all now need to recover from has not even dried, we have not yet processed the emotional calls for reconciliation, and the second the right-wing bloc shrinks slightly, the second a tiny chink of light reveals an opportunity for a fresh battle against the right-wing rule and Netanyahu – the left is back in business. As always, they are reconciled when they are faced with defeat, they long for unity when they cannot establish a government, and they are concerned about the will of the people only when it represents their position.
The democratic elections are over, and the non-democratic struggle has begun. In other words, it is now time for the dubious tactics where the only goal is to circumvent the voters' decision at the price of changing the rules of the game in the middle of the game, and in many ways, at any price.
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It started with the fresh petition to the High Court of Justice, which apparently was already written and laying in wait, just like the arsenal waits for the order to fire, so it could be filed the day after the election. What haven't we said and written about such petitions and the attempt to de-facto cancel a Basic Law and the unreasonable demands from the High Court to intervene in the role of the president? In addition to the legal issue, what is no less interesting is the "moral" justification which has suddenly come up in the reasoning; in other words, the need to "balance out" the voters' decision with the need for safeguarding integrity.
To put it simply, at the basis of the demand for "balance" is the assumption that the will of the people is insufficiently balanced or logical, and the High Court is called upon to decide between a democratic decision and the will of the minority to force its views on the majority. This same elite group which holds a crystal ball that defines what integrity is, together with its new tools that must be deployed in the name of this very definition, believes that its word is more important than the will of the people.
And if we dared to think that we had seen and heard it all from the anti-democratic production line of the left, a new ruse has suddenly popped up. Blue and White Knesset members are considering initiating a bill that would uniquely mean that Netanyahu cannot form the next government. Those great, untiring opponents to "personal" laws (like the so-called French law that would allow political leaders to avoid criminal prosecution while in office) want to alter a Basic Law, for personal gains, in a retroactive and perverse way in order to essentially annul the choice of over two million Israelis in Netanyahu as their candidate for prime minister.
In order to do this, they are building a shady coalition that simultaneously relies on MKs Yoaz Hendel, Zvi Hauser, Avigdor Lieberman, Ahmed Tibi and Heba Yazbak. Because they have no problem with a party that is opposed to the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people deciding who will be the next prime minister. All in the name of "morality" of course. Even though that had the necessary majority in the last Knesset, they waited with the decision for another round of elections, thus deceiving and keeping their true intentions from the public.
But what's new? One can recall other personal, retroactive legislative changes led by the left. That is what Rabin did during the Oslo process (by asking Gonen Segev and Alex Goldfarb to split from their party and join the coalition); it is what Ehud Olmert did to be able to appoint Shimon Peres his vice prime minister. This time, however, the personal change is far graver, as it is not just for the sake of one person or another, but rather it punishes a significant part of the people. It blatantly crushes the democratic will of the people all in the name of hatred for one person.
