There is no better moment, no better excuse, no better opportunity than right now for Israel’s government to take tangible steps, manifesting that the deed now is done, that Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is done. Just do it. Opinion.
This miraculous opportunity from G-d is too good for Israel’s weak-kneed leaders to embrace as an incredible door that has opened. Let’s waste it. Just the other day, the Knesset voted 71-13 that Judea and Samaria beyond the 1967 “Green Line” is as much a part of Israel as are the pre-1967 boundaries. 71-13. Who voted against it?
The Arab parties. OK, that is fair. It’s not like Naftali Bennett, Matan Kahana, Avigdor Liberman, Gadi Eisenkot, and Benny Gantz would sit with them in an Israeli government coalition. Right? Unthinkable! And the Labor-Meretz gang — whatever they call themselves — are against it. Surprising? Nope. But neither the Arabs nor the Labor-Meretz “Democrats” matter anymore. They are hangers-on, vestiges of a past that was built on the separate dreams of Karl Marx and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
After half a century of dominance, the Israeli Left’s role now is two-fold: keep Kaplan Square busy on Motz’ei Shabbat and offer just a small handful of Knesset seats from the left fringe to enable Gantz, Bennett, and Lapid to eke out over 60 seats in a coalition. More interesting is that, when push came to shove, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz showed their colors. They had a doctor’s note that the flu, and they could not come to school the day of the vote. They chickened out, politically unable to vote against sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, and scared to vote for it. (Ed note: Remember, the world calls that area the 'West Bank.' The Bible and Israel call it Judea and Samaria.) (Read More)
