Page 5 - Issue 28

The New Israeli Coalition

by Barak Sella, former central shaliach to HDNA

Why I’m not *super* happy about the (probably

temporary) removal of Bibi and the soon-to-be
Bennet-Lapid government. Spoiler alert - like
always, it’s an issue of class.

Don’t get me wrong, Binyamin Netanyahu
needs to go. No one should be prime minister
for more than 13 total years and we inherited
this sickness from David Ben-Gurion, the very
architect of the never-ending rule. Lord Acton,

the 19th-century British historian and politician,
coined the proverb: “Power tends to corrupt,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great
men are almost always bad men.” Bibi is a great
man and, unfortunately, he is a bad man.
Beyond the indictments that were inevitable

after such a long reign, Bibi’s personality and
political status led to a state of stagnation and
paralysis in almost all areas, especially the
political one, excluding the important “Abraham
Accords.” We experienced the results of this
political paralysis in Operation “Guardian of the
Walls (Shomer Chomot).”