In August, 2021, an Arab Member of Knesset (MK) representing the Israeli (Leftist) political party, Meretz, seemed to threaten Israel's new Bennett-led coalition. She suggested that her Party (Meretz), along with the Arab Party, Ra'am, have the power together to stop Israel from taking military action (here) against Israel's (Islamic) enemies. She further suggested that this is what the coalition agreement was all about--giving to Meretz and Ra'am the power to limit Israel's response to military threat here.
Back in August, that might have seemed to have been just one MK's assumption. But it was fact--because a Ra'am MK had already said as much (here).
Is this what Israelis had voted for in the March, 2021 election? Did Israelis really want to be held hostage by a far-Left Party (Meretz) joining with an Arab-Islamist (and Muslim Brotherhood) Party (Ra'am)? Are Israelis happy that their country might not be able to defend itself in case of a hostile attack?
We know what Israelis wanted in that March election. They wanted a strong Israel willing to protect itself. That's why the election result was overwhelmingly Right-leaning--it is Israel's Right which most assertively promotes Israel's defending itself.
Israelis are tired of fighting wars Israel never wins because it always stops fighting before the job is done. A majority of Israelis voted for Right-wing and Center-right politicians, all of whom claimed to stand for a strong Israel.
Israelis also rejected any form of Leftism and anti-Israelism. But that is exactly what Israel ended up with--a government where Leftists and an anti-Jewish Israel Arab Party have inordinate power--the ability to collapse the government at any time they please.
The inference here is that two political Parties, rejected by a majority of voters, have acquired the power to act as kingmakers. Both Meretz and Ra'am hamstring Israel's government. In theory, Israel's government can only do what Meretz and Ra'am allow.
Israel's election system should never have allowed this to happen. But Israel's election system is broken (here, here)--and this is what a broken election system will do to a country--hamstring its government.
Recently, Israelis have learned what it means to be "hamstrung" by Meretz and Ra'am. First, the Leftist (and pro-Palestinian) Meretz said it will never support Jewish construction anywhere in the Jordan River Valley. This assertion is devastating to Israel's political Right because it ends one of Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's prime campaign promises--sovereignty in, and more Jewish homes for--the Jordan River Valley.
The second glimpse at Israel's new status as "hamstrung" came when Ra'am's political leader, Mansour Abbas, gave a speech in Arabic which, when translated, revealed that, like any other Muslim Brotherhood member in good standing, he, too, believes in jihad against Israel. The only difference between his idea of jihad and Hamas' idea of jihad (Hamas is also a Muslim Brotherhood member) is that Hamas' jihad is military. Ra'am's jihad is civil (here).
In case you did not know, jihad against Israel is a symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood's "unshakeable ideological commitment" to destroy Israel (ibid). Jihad is jihad: it does not matter if it is military or civil, despite any attempt to soft-pedal civil jihad.
The concept of Jihad against Israel has only one goal--the complete Muslimization of Israel. It does not matter if that jihad is civil or military.
Few in Israel seem to understand Ra'am has connections to Hamas (here). They should know about those connections--and they should care about those connections because Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and for the Muslim Brotherhood, the goal is to wipe Israel-as-a-Jewish-state off the map. Jihad is its path to that goal. Period.
Ra'am and Hamas share that end result. Put another way, in terms of its ultimate goal, Ra'am is no different from Hamas.
Both Hamas and Ra'am share the Brotherhood's ideological commitment to destroy Israel. Each simply chooses a different path to that 'victory'.
Indeed, perhaps the presence of such a purely anti-Israel ideology embedded so deeply in Israel's government--inside the nation's ruling coalition--is why Iran's proxy Hezbollah has already declared (here), "Israel is afraid to attack in Lebanon due to the internal consequences war has for them" [emphasis mine].
Is this true? Will Israel limit its military response to an attack because it will fear what Meretz and Ra'am will do? Could be.
How will that work out for Israel? More important, how will that work out for Israel's citizens targeted by incoming missiles? Care to guess?
Stay tuned. The Muslim Brotherhood-Leftist axis operating in Israel's government hasn't yet fully flexed its political muscle to stymie and hamstring either Israel's military options--or Israel's Jewish control over the land. But you can bet that the Muslim Brotherhood, along with its co-conspirators in Ra'am and Meretz, have nothing but trouble in store for Israel.
Yes, neither Party has the power to destroy Israel outright. But together, they will surely attempt to stab Israel in the back. That, they have the power to do.
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