Q&A: What Should Be Done About the Coalition
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What Should Be Done About the Coalition
Question
Hello Rabbi. From what you’ve said in many places, it emerges that the current coalition is bad for the state and for the public as a whole. I think so too, and it seems to me that many others do as well. My question is: what do you think should be done about this? Do you think that public leaders, rabbis, and educators in our community are doing enough about it? Should there be demonstrations separate from the left-wing protest movement? If there are demonstrations, will you take part in them?
Answer
What should be done is everything possible. I will definitely take part in demonstrations, regardless of left or right, as long as they are about the right issues. Not about a hostage deal, for example. Not about false accusations.
Discussion on Answer
Zevulun
Haredim.
What are the right issues? Minister Amsalem’s style versus Yair Lapid’s polished style? The coalition agreements and the draft law versus the bribery of Arabs in the previous government? The “regime coup” versus the system of absolute justice that exists today, before the military coup disrupted the “regime coup”? The security situation versus security abandonment expressed, for example, in handing over gas reservoirs to the enemy without the matter even being brought to a vote in the Knesset (de-mo-cra-cy or not democracy)? I’m definitely curious to know.
Maybe the way I’m presenting the questions sounds provocative, but I really am curious to know, and the question is completely informational: which of the government’s actions—or failures to act—outrages you so much?