Aryeh Deri attacks, "Netanyahu guilty of boycott" • Private column

"Syag lachochma shtika" our sages have said, but there is a time when I feel that I should be a mouthpiece for the hundreds of thousands who sent us to the Knesset, I have to say out loud what they feel, my obligation to them is prior to my personal gain.

I'm not talking about politics, but about values, I came back to public life for one purpose, I've always believed and I still believe that with unity one can achieve any goal without hurting anyone.

I believe that I need pull my strength together for the 'other Israel', to take care of those who do not have - a phrase which, unfortunately, as much as its use is increasingly common, there is less commitment to it.

Unfortunately, those who represent today the 'new politics' do not share these attitudes, on the contrary, we are witnessing an absurd situation where it is possible to ban an entire community, a situation in which legitimate political movements in Israel can declare openly that two million civilians in Israel is boycotted as far as they are concerned, just because their balance of comfort requires.

Boycotting a public should not have a place in Israel, it is forbidden to give it a hand, today haredim are boycotted, tomorrow they'll boycott Arabs, settlers, immigrants from the former Soviet Union and so on, so says the 'new politics'.

We see in front of us the establishment of a bourgeois government, which consists entirely for the first time of the upper class, a government that among its leaders not one knows what distress is, and if that were not enough, they are also the ones that are supposed to cut into the flesh, to make the difficult cuts planned, of which the immediate casualties are the weaker strata, they unfortunately are the ones who will determine priorities.

To the Prime Minister I say, you can not wash your hands in cleanliness, you said once and at a no less crucial time, that you are a son of a historian and as such you see things differently; I have no doubt that history will judge and harshly so the person who gave his hand this situation. True, excuses are aplenty, you were forced, you said, you even bothered to condemn, but those are excuses which do not survive the rigorous test of history. The test result is, two million people, all the citizens of the 'other Israel', all of Israel's disadvantaged, Israel of the weak strata, Israel of those who do not begin the month and of those who did not finish the month, they will all remain without representation in the planned government, they all see how you, the head of their government, are giving your hand to their boycotting. A responsible and honest leader must say in a clear voice, I will not support boycotts no matter what, I will not support the disqualification of communities in Israel, the sole blame lies and will be yours, you will not be able to evade responsibility. "

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