Elections in Israel: just victory

Netanyahu It is based on the wave of intolerance, not only against the Palestinians, but against liberal, secular and progressive Israel. Photos: Dpa.

The Israel self-absorbed, who seeks his identity in the sacred texts and is enthusiastic about expansionism, subtracting the negotiation with the addition of settlements, again imposed on the other Israel, which is a liberal countryconvinced that the democratic state is necessarily a secular state and that the success of the imposition of dialogue engenders a fanaticized triumphalism that divides internally and isolates itself on the international plane.

By the way, From Gaza and southern Lebanon, Hamas and Hezbollah are collaborating in the development of ultra-religious Israeli conservatism. With this outside help, the intolerant speech that describes as an "enemy" the Israeli who wants to negotiate and a "leftist" who questions the corruption and Netanyahu's warmongering became hegemonic.

The right-wing leader has succeeded in the economy, but for the obscurantism of its allies and the denunciations that weigh it do not weaken it, He resorted to the demagogy of populism: divide the Israelis to inoculate political hatred in "crack".

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Alan Abramowitz and Steven Webster called for a long time "the negative partisanship": adhere with fanaticism to a path for the horror of the other way. Netanyahu surfs for years wave of intoleranceanot only against the Palestinians, but against liberal, secular and progressive Israel, which prefers to negotiate rather than impose and conceive of an open society.

Minority In the 2009 elections, centrist Tzipi Livni beat Netanyahu in the vote and the Kadima party won more seats than the Likud, but the ultra-religious allowed "Bibi" to form a government. And he did it without blushing. He will do it again now, even if the centrist Beny Gantz linked him as a beginner in politics.

In Israel today It is difficult to conceive gestures of political magnitude like those of Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres in 1984, when they concluded an agreement of national unity based on the rotation of the functions of Prime Minister. The agreed government lasted 50 months, in the first period under the leadership of the Labor leader and, for the second, at the head of the Likud.

The nationalistic and religious radicalization do Orthodox holidays, Although scandalized by Netanyahu's corruption, do not support a government of Gantz because his number two, Yair Lapid, is a supporter of secularism. Radicalization marginalized the Labor Party and put Meretz, its traditional leftist partner, on the verge of extinction. Elections corroborated the fact that generals tend to be more moderate and more supportive of negotiation than Netanyahu and his religious partners.

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The military backed Béguin's concessions for peace with Egypt. General Rabin, architect of crucial victories, has begun negotiations for a Palestinian state. Ehud Barak, another battlefield commander, was the first minister to offer Ybader Arafat an area of ​​Jerusalem in exchange for a final deal.

Gantz is a general who has commanded two violent clashes with Gaza. But understands that power can create weaknesses, that Israelis are divided and that expansionist triumphalism is used by anti-Semitism to impose on Jews the stigma that makes them once again the target of criminal hatred.

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