Q&A: Bibi or the Right
Bibi or the Right
Question
Hi Rabbi Michi, in one of your recent columns (about Bennett and Bibi, etc.) you advised Bennett to propose a government led by the Likud without Netanyahu. (I don’t understand what was new in that column, since everyone has been saying for years already that he should make room and move aside, but that’s not the point.) I completely agree that this is the right and proper move, and I wish it had already happened, but why not equally suggest to Hauser, Hendel, Sa’ar, and Elkin that they stop boycotting Netanyahu? After all, just as Netanyahu is paralyzing the political system, they are also paralyzing it. So what makes this different from that? (Each of them, whether Netanyahu or Sa’ar, is preventing the establishment of a right-wing government: Netanyahu because returning to his seat matters to him more than the right, and Sa’ar, because of personal conflicts with Netanyahu, is unwilling to sit under him.)
Answer
I’m not a political adviser. I suggest that they promote what seems right to me and to them. And in my view, Bibi has no place in government. Clearly, the political logic is equivalent. Moreover, as I wrote, if Bennett had proposed this, he would have been giving up his own seat, and therefore he could demand in return that Bibi give up his. But Bibi can’t demand that they give something up, since he himself is giving up nothing. But as I said, that’s tactics, and it’s less important. I’ll just conclude by saying that this is not (only) about personal conflicts. They oppose this scumbag on substantive grounds.
Discussion on Answer
I don’t know whether Bibi sold off (approved for Egypt) one of the best submarines in the world (against the position of the entire military and political echelon here in Israel) because he had shares in the steel there.
But he is suspected of it.
Others aren’t.
He really is scum.
There is also a lot of good on the left.
Why is there any necessity for the label “right”?
They too are the beloved children of the Holy One, blessed be He, and apparently much of the good here exists thanks to them and thanks to the self-sacrifice they have.
It was specifically people from the Likud who gave the Arabs Sinai, Gush Katif, northern Samaria, and Hebron.
What advantage is there in the right?