Recently, the country has witnessed a variety of interesting phenomena under one common denominator: 'affirmative action'.
Many workplaces are financially incentivized by the state to employ minorities, and scholarships and funds have been established to assist immigrants who were neglected by the state during its darkest times.
But the highlight, of course, is precisely during this period, the election period. The terrible pursuit of floating votes by party leaders, and there are many of them – really many, leads to a real spiral in the sane monitoring of the membership list.
If in the past it was the 'list of stars' that Benjamin Netanyahu brought to Likud in the 2009 elections, when Benny Begin and Dan Meridor were presented as 'crown princes' and attracted one or two voters to their ranks, and the 'media team' that included a running gag of media people from all shades of the political spectrum, now the shameful move, intended to garner votes, has become illusory and oppressive.
''Primaries' – this magic word that makes the party that holds it enlightened and free from dictatorship, its power is beautiful from the language and outward only, as the right balance will never be found in this method, without the intervention of an 'ordinating committee' which, cynically translated into current Hebrew, equates to a one-man dictatorship. Usually the head of the party. The "armor system" that has become a hit in recent times, inadvertently points to a painful and bloody point that is worth paying attention to.
In recent days, news has been published one after another about the real-life appointments of people whose personal opinions and the party platform are separated by a real ideological chasm, and yet the matter is accepted with understanding, not to mention appreciation. The reason for this is simple: all the parties are now courting the same ethnic group, or if you like, the 'Mizrahi'. From a simple and unbiased perspective, it looks good and sounds even better. What could be nicer than affirmative action in which a Mizrahi is placed in a high position and finally gets to sit in a deerskin armchair and make decisions of one kind or another? Indeed, it's wonderful.
Ohana has a house.
But you don't have to be a great genius to understand the great injustice done in this way to an entire public, who in one bright period became the pet of enlightened Israelis, the people of the 'White House.' The image may be frightening and evoke unpleasant associations, but the truth must be told. Placing 'Mizrahi' on the list as if he were a monkey in a circus does not respect either the one who is being protected or the one being protected.
The naive attempt in this act to garner another vote from "Solika from Dimona" - she and her family - for a party that inadvertently engraved on its banner (at best) the symbol of anti-social hedonism, solely because some "Ohana," "Abutbul" or "Applelo" was a member of it, is similar to that animal that shows its claws and says "I am kosher" - and he is not.
Just as a 'religious Muhammad' from Beit Shemesh did not bring a single Haredi vote to the party of the man and the crystal ball, and just as placing a Chief of Staff or a 'security expert' in a particular party will not attract the votes of fighters and security personnel, so an unknown Mizrahi with no political experience will not be useful in the showcase of arrogant Israeliness.
The place of the Mizrahi, like the place of the rest of those who recognize Toba, is in a party where the platform and ideology are not subject to election days and a period of voter courtship. Aboutbol's place is not in the "Jewish House" but in his true home, the house that raised his horn and raised his vision, the very same house that turned "Ohana" into an acceptable media talent.
The arrogance of the arrogant people around them, who turn the potential voter into a spineless person who will easily be tempted and exchange ideology for some kind of "Eastern sentiment," resembles the line that has guided them all their days: "Give me your vote and you will be brothers." That sentence, which for some reason continues with us into the second cycle, also indicates the arrogant nature of that older guy who slaps a young boy hard on the back and tells him, "You are one of us." Even there, the pain of the blow stings much more when the insult arises.
That being said, the cynical use of the Eastern rising star will not add even a single vote. He, too, the Eastern armored man, knew how to appreciate the favor in the moment of truth to the mother party that led him this far, until the day when his name serves as a magnet for floating iron votes.
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