How did it happen in Israel?

Written by: Nabil Amr

Indeed, Israel is a place of oddities and wonders, and the strangest thing about it is its political system, which allows the owner of the highest number of seats in parliament to go to the opposition defeated, and bring the owner of the lowest number victorious and the prime minister, and this is what happened in the previous elections.
In Israel, too, the recent elections produced an equation that rarely happens elsewhere, which is that those who toppled the prime minister in a previous round brought him back on the necks in a subsequent round, and what is meant here is those who formed the government of “change” Lapid-Gantz, and those who were described as the helmsman Mansour Abbas.

how did that happen?
The government of change outperformed Netanyahu's coalition in the previous elections by one vote, and in the middle of its term, those who fled fled from it, and those who remained remained, and a tie became the master of the situation, which dictated going to a fifth election.

Netanyahu, who is without the prime minister, no longer sees life as a taste. He wasted not one minute or one vote but mobilized him in the battle of return, and he did not leave small or big things without employing them in his fateful battle to regain the throne.

With well-known ability, he succeeded in gathering the ranks of his deep “right” camp, and with the same ability he worked within the opponents’ camp, taking advantage of the fragility of his alliance relations and the intensity of the internal rivalry between its parties. Meretz after wasting more than one hundred and thirty thousand votes, and the Arab League list wasted more than one hundred and twenty thousand votes, and the voter turnout in the Arab sector did not rise as much as it did in the Jewish sector, and all of this gave Netanyahu victory on a plate of gold. . It was not an ordinary victory in which he aspired to a majority of one vote, but rather a blatant victory that provided him with the formation of a government with a comfortable majority made up of the solid right-wing muscle. It also provided him with dispelling the forces of opponents and complicating the possibility of the emergence of an effective alliance against him.

What happened would not have happened had Netanyahu's opponents not done what they did over a year of their rule. They showed weak leadership and an inability to escape Netanyahu's legacy, so they relied on what showed them as if they were his shadow and not a substitute for him. They were consistent with his propositions to solve the Palestinian issue by adopting the economic solution formula instead of the political one, and increased it in killing and oppression, until the year of their rule recorded the highest level of blood that bled from the bodies of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. It was offered by Netanyahu, “You are just a security agent for us,” which goes far beyond the limits of coordination specified in the agreements, of which nothing else remains.

The chicken that laid golden eggs in Netanyahu's coop was the manner in which the Arab community dealt with the elections, despite the fact that simple, accurate and proven calculations indicated the possibility that he would be the guaranteed decisive force against Netanyahu and his dangerous right.

The Arabs made a mistake twice, the first when they did not mobilize their voting potential in close to the percentage with which the Jews mobilized... It is true that it rose by several points from what the polls indicated, but the unprecedented density of the Jewish vote neutralized this increase; It seemed ineffective. As for the other mistake, it was when the Arab political forces waged their electoral battle by exerting the greatest effort in their internal competition. As the level of rhetoric fell, and the apparent goal became to prove the superiority of each formation over its competitor, and such a matter is only valid in reality at the level of bragging.

Finally... the season of the fifth elections closed on an increasing decrease in Arab representation in the Knesset and an increasing fragmentation of the anti-Netanyahu coalition, and a higher and deeper position was granted to the forces that want to eradicate the Arab situation in Israel from its roots.

And with the same power of influence in the general governmental trend against the Palestinians, their authority, their entity, and their rights in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem.

What happened in Israel, according to the scale of comparison between the bad and the worse, is that the bad failed and the worst won, and what is really unfortunate is that the Arabs inside the country have a great contribution to that.