Guest post by RaP
A funny thing happened on the way to the recent Israeli elections: A lot of Israeli Jews got lost along the way! How so you may rightly ask?
For most people the Israeli method of elections is puzzling. Basically it is based on the "proportional representation" model. Votes are cast for parties and the votes are then added up and divided "proportionally" so that if party X receives 10% of the vote it will get about 10% of the members in the 120 member Knesset. There is also a requirement to meet a minimum threshold percentage to "qualify" for the final dividing-up of the percentages. This was done to eliminate gadfly small parties and keep them from splintering the Knesset that would hinder forming governing coalitions and setting up governments. For the last election the minimum threshold required was raised to above 3% of the required total in order to be in the running for the final division of votes for numbers of seats. Thus many smaller or smallish parties decided to "unite" in order to surpass the minimum threshold requirements as well as to strengthen their chances against larger parties.
The one group that figured out all the angles and put into motion a "solution" was Israeli Arabs and a small group of Israeli Jewish Communists who work within those parties. The Israeli Communist party under various names has long merged into and morphed into an Arab Israeli party. In the recent elections four diverse and conflicting Israeli Arab parties united know as the generic "United Arab List" and as a result they did exceedingly well becoming the third largest single block in the incoming Knesset almost doubling their representation to 14 Knesset members! That means that this group has basically succeeded in crowding out most of the small Israeli Jews' parties some to near or virtual extinction and others to bare bones numbers that has sent them reeling.
It was probably the main reason that the new Israeli Yachad party headed by Israeli Sefardi ex-SHAS veteran political leader Eli Yishai just missed making it into the Knesset where the smallest parties under the current allocations are not less than four members. Thus four popular well-known Israeli Charedi and Orthodox Jews, consisting of Sefardim and Ashkenazim, under the guidance of Rav Meir Mazuz, representing a huge group of Charedi and Orthodox Jews, as well as serious Religious Zionist voters disgusted with Bennett's "Bayit Yehudi" party's flippant attitude to serious Torah Judaism were shut out of the new Knesset because the Israeli Arabs united and organized in such a way to pump up their own numbers that ensured that parties like Yachad and Eli Yishai and his ally Zev Marzel were "defeated"!
They know this quite well and some of the new Israeli Arab future Knesset members have openly bragged to the press that they are proud of the fact that managed to keep Eli Yishai and Zev Marzel and all of Yachad out of the next Knesset. And who do the Arab Israeli new Knesset members represent? Communists on one side and real dyed in the wool Arab Islamic fundamentalists with full regalia and all as the new anarchists to sit in the Israeli Knesset historically mainly meant to be a place for all Jews to have a political voice. This is a cruel twist of political irony. True, that this is the way a democracy like this works and the Arab Israelis deserve their well thought out and well funded and executed Pyrrhic victory, thinking they have now "stormed the Bastille" but they are living in a fool's paradise because only in Israel would Jews allow something like this to get off the ground. In Arab lands they long ago kicked out all the Jews, confiscated their property, and now that they don't have Jews to persecute, they have taken to killing Arab Christians and burning down their churches, as they all fight and kill each other with Sunni versus Shia, Arabs versus Iranians, and secular versus Islamic radicals. While in Israel they adopt the language of moderation and talk like lawyers and hot TV celebrities as they smile for the cameras, win debating points and make sure to provoke fellow Israeli Knesset members into furious rages with open support for Hamas and all sorts of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist invective.
This affected not just Eli Yishai and his Yachad party forcing them to shrink into political oblivion, but even a hardened political operative like Avigdor Liberman the leader of Russian Israelis in the Knesset rightly called it a "political assassination"! Just what does that mean?
All the Israeli political parties received outside financial and political help and boosts. Likud has its super-capitalist backers overseas while Labor has its ultra-liberal backers who pumped money and advisers in. Charedim got plenty of backing from rich American backers and advisors. Seems Liberman and his part did not get such backing from Russian Jews abroad, maybe because they are not as open-handed as other groups, but one thing is for sure, the new "Arab List" party received lots of good help and advice for itself that worked.
There was a group that came in to Israel from the USA according to multiple news sources headed by people who had helped to get Obama elected that allied with Israeli leftists and radicals. This new group dubbed itself "V15" and it was assumed they were working mostly to hand the Labor block a victory in the "2015" elections -- but this is just one dimension of what they were up it now transpires.
It is very possible and even probable and totally conceivable that "V15" actually means the goal to elect into the Knesset of the Jewish state, 15 Israeli Arabs that in turn would squeeze out problematic smaller parties like Eli Yishai's Yachad party that voiced strong views about Arabs by its member Zev Marzel, as well as shrink down and neuter as much as possible any and all other Israeli Jewish parties by cutting down on the number of Knesset seats they could hope to have and hence voices in the Knesset for Israeli Jews would be shut down and put out of action, and it worked. Not quite 15 maybe, but 14 is excellent for them and those 14 now take over slots and crowd out Israeli Jewish voices in the Knesset that should rightfully and historically belong to Jewish Israelis who founded the Jewish state of Israel not as a venue for Arab nationalism and anti-Israel and anti-Jewish diatribes but as a voice for all Jews first and foremost something virtually all Charedi and Orthodox Jews understand all too well.
Maybe it is a measure for measure from Heaven above, that once upon a time Rabbi Meir Kahane HY"D stood as a new voice in the Knesset but he was ostracized and at one point when there were going to be new elections in his time it was predicted he would gain huge increased support and votes from Israeli Jews to the tune of also perhaps from 10 to 15 potential new Knesset members. But PM Shamir and his cohorts panicked and they banned Kahane and his party from the Knesset for being "racist" and soon thereafter Kahane was assassinated becoming the first victim of Arab terrorism aka Jihad in America that came into full view on 9/11 when over 3,000 Americans lost their lives to the same Islamic radicals out to destroy not just Kahane, Israel and the Jews but to crush America and bring the entire Western World to its knees and bow down to Islam by the force of their swords!
So now instead Israel has allowed some proven Arab racist Knesset members who have even faced serious sanctions for their anti-Israel bashing and ranting and actions visiting terrorist groups abroad. While the Israeli Supreme Court supported them, now with the help of "V15" who mobilized the Arab Israeli vote like never before there are now at least 14 of these people. So that when in the past Israeli Jews blocked the potential growth of other Israeli Jews they did not like Kahane's party's growth, now they have to live with the Arab nationalist's growth which is far worse and more dangerous for the Jews and the Jewish state.
So watch out what you wish for, it may come true, and the "V15" group have made the Israeli ultra-leftists' and Arab Israeli wishes come true allowing the Israeli Jews to roll out the red carpet for a true Trojan Horse and Fifth Columnists in their own Israeli Knesset, folks that wish to see the demolition, shrinkage and disappearance of the small Jewish state from the Middle East once and for all.
May HKB"H have mercy on the Jewish People everywhere and save them from the whiles of its enemies both near and far as he did on Purim and Pesach, Amen!
You claim the arab parties were "almost doubling their representation to 14 Knesset members".
ReplyDeleteLast election they had combined 11 seats and now they have 13. Please check facts.
Also it is a little disingenuous to just blame the arabs for raising the amount of seats needed to pass the threshold; the voter turnout for the right was also high.
Remember, it was the right wing parties who wanted to raise the threshold to 3.25% to begin with in order to keep out the arab parties. It just backfired.
RaP, you "forgot" the campaign against Yachad organized by the Livaks with Rosh Yeshiva Rav Shteinman as the leader and Shas with their Rabbonim/Chachamim. Shas tryed to besmir the Yachad leader from day 1 of the election campaign. By the way; the One who rules the world has made His decisions, who are we to blame fellow Jews for the outcome.
ReplyDeleteIt was Lieberman who pushed hardest for the new law raising the the threshold to enter the Knesset from 2% and 2 seats to 3.25% and 4 seats. Lieberman said at the time he hopes as a result the Arab parties won't get in altogether since they were fractured in three parties. The new law forced the Arabs to unite into one even though they never wanted to. And as David wrote, it backfired where the Arabs succeeded and Lieberman almost got knocked out.
ReplyDeleteArguably, Yachad, (the only chareidi party that did not attack other chareidim) lost because enough voters panicked and listened to Netanyahu's plea that all would be lost if Likud did not have a decisive victory. A victory for him but not for the Torah camp. BTW, the name is Baruch Marzel
ReplyDeleteDoowdim said: "Arguably, Yachad, (the only chareidi party that did not attack other chareidim) lost because enough voters panicked and listened to Netanyahu's plea that all would be lost if Likud did not have a decisive victory. A victory for him but not for the Torah camp. BTW, the name is Baruch Marzel"
ReplyDeleteNetenyahu's last minute pitch was a BRILLIANT political move for him and saved the day! Very quick on his political feet. He floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee true to form as a savvy political prize fighter. See his reasoning in this short interview he gave a few days ago: "Special Interview: Binyamin Netanyahu on Arutz Sheva" (9 minutes, YouTube, Published on Mar 15, 2015)"
He realized full well that other parties would be cut down, but he did NOT create the core problem or mentality at its root, that if Israeli Jews would not be so tolerant of having and allowing proven racist Arabs in the Knesset, and ban them like they banned Kahane from the Knesset for being a so-called "racist" then Netanyahu and the rest of Israeli Jewry would not have been in the pickle they got themselves into and would NOT have to cannibalize each other to the delight of the "V15" political fixers and their willing Arab Israeli puppets. By the way, if they once upon a time banned Kahane from the Knesset for espousing "racist" views that were just rowdy Orthodox views one can hear in any yeshiva or shiur, then they can ban every single Knesset member who is Orthodox, Religious Zionists, Charedi, or wears any sort of Kippah and of course sports a beard and Peyos! What the Knesset did in banning Kahane was in itself an act of pure racism and 100% anti-democratic since the Knesset is a place for ALL Jews to be freely represented.
Thanks for the clarification about Marzel's name. I don't know him personally and I was trying to get out the op-ed essay and I don't have anyone good like you to help me proof-read what I write. So thanks for the feedback, much appreciated and please feel free to point out any other gremlins or typos that may sneak into my writing as I type.
Moe Ginsburg said: "It was Lieberman who pushed hardest for the new law raising the the
ReplyDeletethreshold to enter the Knesset from 2% and 2 seats to 3.25% and 4 seats.
Lieberman said at the time he hopes as a result the Arab parties won't
get in altogether since they were fractured in three parties. The new
law forced the Arabs to unite into one even though they never wanted to.
And as David wrote, it backfired where the Arabs succeeded and
Lieberman almost got knocked out."
Indeed! And that is what I write at the end of my essay "Watch out what you wish for, it may come true"!!!! What the Israeli Arabs did, with the help of the "V15" operatives was NOT to take the "poisoned apple" handed to them and not just stay alive politically but to do the unthinkable and actually, gasp, UNITE, even though they hate each other. Now that takes REAL guts! They were handed lemons and not only did they make lemon juice out of it but they manufactured a delicious 100% Halal lemon cake and not just that they handed it out to their delighted followers like they hand out candies to children after every successful terrorist attack on Israeli Jews! Yum, a recipe the devil himself would call delicious devil's food cake!!
Just imagine if all the Orthodox and Charedi parties and people in Israel could unite like the Arabs in Israel just did and create one super Orthodox-Charedi party, it would EASILY become the largest party and be handed the mandate to become the heads of the next coalition and then the Likud and Netanyahu could work for them and not the other way around. Even now, latest results are that the new "Arab List" will 13 Knesset that equals SHAS with 7 and UTJ with 6, and 7+6=13 !!!! Add in if Bayit Yehudi and Yachad would join then you get a party that is basically near the top one or tow parties. Then imagine if ALL Israeli Jews would vote as Rav Shteinman said they must for a Kiddush HaShem, and not boycott the Israeli political system for various reasons, then you get the Orthodox+Charedim+Religious Zionists forming the hugest religious and political block in Israel!! Maybe they should hire the "V15" group of paid hacks to teach them how to unite "opposites" that supposedly hate each other to come together to attain their mutually beneficial goals. Maybe that will bring the true Jewish Mashiach finally as well. Nice bonus that would be!!
As for Liberman he is a big boy and will draw his own conclusions. Interestingly I once read that his own family is quite traditional and respects Orthodoxy, but he obviously does what he has to do to win the votes of the very secular former Communist Jews from the former Soviet Union as well as the votes of the over 300,000 non-Halachic so-called "Jews" from the former USSR who back him. That is also a neat political trick that unites opposites but they have their Russian-mentality outlook that unites them.
There is a Mussar Haskel in all these things if only people would open their eyes and take off their blinkers and junk their petty prejudices!
Richard said: "RaP, you "forgot" the campaign against Yachad organized by the Livaks
ReplyDeletewith Rosh Yeshiva Rav Shteinman as the leader and Shas with their
Rabbonim/Chachamim. Shas tryed to besmir the Yachad leader from day 1 of
the election campaign. By the way; the One who rules the world has made
His decisions, who are we to blame fellow Jews for the outcome."
Note sure if the Litvaks did what you say they did because news reports originally stated that Rav Shteinman did NOT specifically come out against Yishai, on the contrary it looked like he was hedging his bets and BLESSED him, and in effect supporting fellow Bnai Braker Rav Meir Mazuz the Daas Torah of Yachad and Yishai. As for SHAS of course they went apoplectic when Yishai launched his party and even though they used rough-house tactics, the tapes that were leaked about Rav Ovadia Yosef bitterly complaining about Deri caused an earthquake, Deri RESIGNED and went into "exile" but the damage control and spin-meistering was so powerful that paradoxically Deri came out looking like a "martyr" to Yishai "villain" -- life is funny that way in the Charedi world, they could teach Nixon a thing or tow. So there was bad blood there, but still not reason enough to negate the approximately solid 125,000 votes (if note more!) of Orthodox, Charedi and Religious Zionist Jews for Yachad that went down the toilet because while Shas and Yachad were battling each other, down the road the Arab Israelis were UNITING and NOT fighting each other, because they correctly knew that in unity they could win more votes and hence more representatives and more power in the Knesset.
This discussion is not about blaming fellow Jews, on the contrary it is a wake up call to realize that the Israeli Arabs now have the most powereful set of voices ever to disrupt the workings of the Knesset, to spew hatred of Israel and Jews, and act with impunity against the very people who empowered them to do so, the Jews of Israel!
david said: "You claim the arab parties were "almost doubling their representation to 14 Knesset members". Last election they had combined 11 seats and now they have 13. Please check facts."
ReplyDeleteRaP: In the last elections the Israeli Arabs were NOT "united" into one
United Arab List" and as such, as small parties they may have also been individaully wiped out had they run a;lone. But they got smart, or at least the "V15" operatives got smart for them and cleverly organized them, using brilliant political tactics and huge inflows of money, and this is what Netanyahu warned about on election day and that Obama is now picking on him about, that the Israeli Arabs were being shipped to the polls the way Obama's "Acorn" "community organizers" shipped every last lost pro-Arab voter to the polls to vote for the new united party. In this way they became the third largest single united block in the new Knesset and in it can be said that they actuallu QUADRUPLED their power from being four shaky parties that could have been wiped out, to coming together as one force making them into a super power in the Knesset. Surely this is not something Herzl and the original Zionist dreamers wished to see that Arabs should become the powers that be in a parliament in the JEWISH homeland meant to give political freedom and expression to Jews who were denied that for two millenia in their long exile all over the world.
"Also
it is a little disingenuous to just blame the arabs for raising the
amount of seats needed to pass the threshold; the voter turnout for the
right was also high. Remember, it was the right wing parties who
wanted to raise the threshold to 3.25% to begin with in order to keep
out the arab parties. It just backfired."
RaP: Presumably you believe that in the JEWISH state ALL JEWISH parties should have voice in their own JEWISH Knesset?! Yes, certain NON-Jewish minorities, no matter how large or small, SHOULD have some sort of voice to have their causes heard, BUT, under no circumstances should non-Jews be allowed to become power-brokers and obstructionists to JEWISH goals in a JEWISH state. We already saw what can result when ex PM Parbin pushed through the Oslo Accords in the Knesset with a razor-thin "Majorityu" of one or two votes above the 60 needed with the help of the Arabs in the Knesset and also with the help of Deri and SHAS at that time, for which everyone concerned paid a high price: Rabin was assassinated, Deri was rebuked by Rav Shach ZT"L and he fell from grace and then went to jail for corruption charges; and Yasser Arafat and the PLO were flown in from Tunis to take up home in Ramalah and were armed and soon thereafter they started on the notorious Intifidas, the Jihads in Israel by ISRAELI Arabs that costs the lives of THOUSANDS of murdered Israelis in bombings and all sorts of heinous attacks against JEWISH civilians.
So, yes, most definitely from the JEWISH Israeli point of view, and NOT from the Israeli Arabs' point of view, if the Israeli Arabs are now on the rise in the Knesset and in so doing they crowd out and therefore raise the threshold for legitimate Jewish Israeli political parties to be heard and enter the Knesset which is their right in their own Jewish homeland to be represented by their elected people, then as that old saying goes when the famous Apollo 13 mission started to malfunction on the way to the Moon.....
This post drools of anti-arab racism and an anti-democratic spirit ("democracy only for jews in Israel"). I wonder why the blog-owner agreed to publish such an article full of half-truths and full lies.
ReplyDeleteWas the original Eliyahu HaNavi also a "racist" for saying?:
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