The Government Crumbles Like a Matzah & the 'Party of God' Alignment Yeastily Rises

 

Where there is bad will, there is a way.

They say that Arabs love matzah, but Muslim and Christian Arabs have no obligation to eat it during Passover under Jewish law. On any given day, many doctors, patients, and staff in Israeli hospitals are Arabs.

Should they be deprived of pita on Passover while in hospitals?

The reality is that Israel’s annual matzah crisis is more about obdurate Jews like those at the Secular Forum and its New Israel Fund backers who insist that asking citizens to refrain from bringing bread products into hospitals and IDF bases during Pesach is a knock against their civil liberties.

To which the reactionary Party of God Alignment responds: God is Great! And Netanyahu is his Messenger.

Some of the Party of God Alignment may not otherwise be halachically punctilious, but on matzah, they see a wedge issue to get Netanyahu and the clerics back into power. Some in the Party of God Alignment who are halachically fastidious may not be ethically and morally finicky, but plainly draw the line on contraband breadcrumbs.

Those who assert to want a more tolerant Israeli society may now have set the stage for a more coercive demagogic government by overplaying their hand. Self-styled liberals at the Secular Forum and doctrinaire justices at Israel’s Supreme Court fail to understand that tolerance is a two-way street that requires consideration of religious sensibilities. Respecting societal norms regarding Passover food traditions in the public domain is both politic and common decency. 

The justices serially forget they are squandering the only capital that matters – political legitimacy.

Celebrity. Fame. Stardom. It is Idit Silman whose defection from Bennett’s Yamina Party that has caused the current crisis. Her picture is all over the front pages and Internet. Like the rest of us, she's seen how for weeks now, childlike squabbling between DM Gantz, FM Lapid, and PM Bennett revealed they cannot manage their egos for the sake of the nation.

The Lady now-famous has been apoplectic that Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz of Meretz cheerily (as opposed to reluctantly?) agreed to enforce a Supreme Court ruling that blocks hospitals and IDF bases from preventing chometz on their property during Passover. 

She and the Parties of God Alignment along with the intolerant progressives at the Secular Forum – not to mention our La La Land Supreme Court justices – have just created another period of political deadlock in Israel. 

Thanks for nothing.