Elections in Israel: Netanyahu turns the right-wing “Jewish Power” party in its place

But now, Ben Gvir and thousands of a new generation of Kahans are on the verge of a political comeback, thanks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s need for parliamentary seats in Tuesday’s national elections. First place in the Israeli Knesset and perhaps even a ministerial position in the next government, providing the ultra-nationalist group a foothold in its quest for legitimacy. Who can make their ideology acceptable to an increasingly right-wing electorate. It calls for the expulsion of Arabs who are considered “not loyal” to Israel and the occupied territories, and calls for Israel to annex the entire West Bank, which is home to about 3 million Palestinians. “Itamar is this new generation, the one who knows the way to participate,” said Nati Smadar of the far-right Lahava group, whose members have been convicted of deliberate burning attacks in public discourse is to speak positive – not about Arab hatred, but about the love of the Jewish nation, despite The basic ideology is the same. Mixed between Jewish and Arab schools and protested at weddings between Jews and Arabs, many ordinary Israelis reacted with horror at the prospect of Kahane’s return. One political commentator described Ben Ghafir’s views as “creepers,” and another as “odious.” Major Jewish groups in the United States have condemned Ben Gvir’s previous attempts to enter Parliament. ”Opinions [the Jewish Power party] The American Jewish Committee said in a statement in 2019. AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby group, tweeted at the time that it “has a long-standing policy of not meeting members of this reprehensible racist party.” “It’s a nightmare,” said Staff Shaffer, the former Labor MP who sued Ben Gvir for his views on Nazism. Years ago, there was a consensus between the left and the right that he should not be in Parliament. The only way he can get a seat is if Netanyahu works for him. The alliance between Netanyahu’s dominant Likud party and one of the country’s most fanatical groups stems from the ongoing political deadlock in Israel. During three elections in the past two years, no party won a decisive victory, which frustrated efforts to form a governing coalition in the Knesset. In one vote after another, the coalition of right-wing and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties that kept Netanyahu in power for 14 years failed just fine, while anti-Netanyahu forces – including the left, center, and Arab parties – managed together to win more seats each time than the prime minister’s coalition. He failed to agree on a united front that would topple him. The emergency unity government formed last year to confront the coronavirus pandemic lasted only seven months before collapsing amid the infighting, and as soon as almost new elections were held, he began brokering a deal between the Jewish power led by Ben Gvir and the religious Zionist party headed by Bezalel Smotrich, the controversial conservative who He declared himself “proud of homophobia”. By combining forces, they have a better chance of reaching the minimum number of votes required to enter the Knesset, and recent opinion polls show that their card could get up to four seats, a potential support for Netanyahu in his pursuit of a majority. ”Ben Ghafir told reporters. “Our association is good news for anyone who wants an ideological, political nation that does not concede its values.” (He refused to be interviewed for this article.) According to local media reports, Netanyahu promised that the joint parties would control at least one ministry in his next government, although he He recently played down the likelihood of Ben Gvir getting a senior position.Ghafir, 44, lives in the Kiryat Arba settlement in the West Bank near Hebron and has been a lawyer in some of the most notorious cases of Jewish terrorism in Israel. The deliberate killing of three members of a Palestinian family in the West Bank, and it originally emerged in 1995, shortly after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed a peace agreement with the Palestinians. Rabin Cadillac. “We got the car. We’ll get to Rabin as well. Weeks later, Rabin is assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist. Ben Gvir has no known relationship with the murder, although he campaigned for the killer’s release from prison. -Terrorist group. In the 1970s. After Kahana was found guilty of participating in a bomb-making plot and was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence, he immigrated to Israel and founded the Kach Party, which promoted stripping most Arabs of their voting rights and making sexual relations between Jews and Arabs illegal. One due to incitement to racism. He was assassinated in New York two years later by an Egyptian militant, and after a fellow American politician, Baruch Goldstein, killed 29 Palestinian worshipers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994, Israel declared the party a terrorist organization. After that, the party leaders became the party’s leaders. Mostly they are considered outcasts, but the Kahanism took on a new life as an underground youth movement: “I believe that Rabbi Kahane was a holy man, and a righteous man, who fought for the Jewish people and killed for the sanctification of the name of God. . . . “I take many good things from Rabbi Kahane,” said Ben Ghafir in an interview last month with the right-wing media site Surujim. “But after all that, no, I am not Rabbi Kahane in a word,” he said, adding for example that he would not propose legislation to create separate beaches for Jews and Arabs, and now, with Ben Gvir – who once kept a picture of Baruch Goldstein on the living room wall – on the threshold Entry into the Knesset, views that were once said by Tom Nissani, a 32-year-old field coordinator with the far-right activist group Im Terzo, that mainstream politics has gained legitimacy in the Israeli public, which is considered “fake” in mainstream politics. But many are defending the attacks on Palestinians in the Occupied Territories as a justified response to their hostility. “I’m not about to start a war for land,” said Michael Miller, a 30-year-old American-born Jewish voter. But if our neighbors decide, God forbid, to be hostile to us, then yes, I dare say that he will be mitzvah him to reclaim the land. To take back what is right for us. ”