What hasn't been said about these elections? That they are the most fateful in decades, that they have always been divisive in the Haredi public, that they were conducted in the dirty way we know. But the day after, there is no debate about one thing. Everyone agrees that we must take stock.
But apparently there are again differences of opinion: who needs to take stock of their own souls?.
Sector activists and representatives in the Knesset shout that every mandate is important to the bloc, and that we must not lose a single vote that, at the end of the day, will be lacking for the strength of Haredi Judaism.
No one disputes this statement. Therefore, from every possible platform, Shas and United Judaism members attacked Eli Yishai's party, which, without taking permission from them, ran in an independent party, while risking many votes, all of which, according to the polls, were in the electoral threshold range.
The day after, everyone is rightly demanding a sharp reckoning over this move, which undoubtedly lost four seats to the bloc.
I too demand self-examination: This is a blatant irresponsibility, stemming from ego and a desire to pull the reins of power under the guise of concern for the entire public.
And I'm not talking here about Eli Yishai, who has been slandered and disparaged on every platform.
Eli has the right to run and offer an alternative.
Eli Yishai is not guilty. You are.
I'm talking about those MKs and activists who knew the importance of each mandate, and with unparalleled irresponsibility, repeatedly came out and warned the public against voting for him, while certainly jeopardizing four such important mandates., Just to save maybe half a mandate here or there.
The ones who need to be held accountable today and take stock of their souls are not the ones who offered an alternative and let the public decide who to vote for. On the contrary, the ones who need to take stock of their souls are the activists and parties who did not gain the trust of those four mandates.
Coming and telling the public not to vote together, because your vote will go to waste, is an irresponsible act, which caused the entire bloc to lose four seats because of a few thousand votes, which could have made the Haredi bloc large enough for a technical bloc to jointly demand portfolios and changes in the composition of the coalition.
Although it turns out that even if Yishai's party had passed the threshold, to the dismay of those businessmen, he would still have remained outside.
I have no doubt that they would prefer to remain a small bloc without him and, God forbid, to include him to strengthen the bloc.
Because if they were to pass and enter together, it would be the beginning of a phenomenon in which suddenly there would not be just two ruling ultra-Orthodox parties that hold control over the public. Suddenly, groups within the ultra-Orthodox street would gain expression, and realize the ability to unite into a representation that would manage independently of its old business - which leaves the Knesset only while lying down, to the sound of murmuring the Psalm of the Lord of hosts from the Psalms.
The public is fed up with you.
And now, instead of taking stock of how such a large public, which heard your warning - and yet voted together, because apparently in their eyes you are not worthy of leadership, you are calling on Eli Yishai to take stock of himself.
About what exactly?
125,000 people said: I am willing to risk my vote, which may go to waste, the main thing is not to give it to those parties whose leaders do not count us; who treat us like those doubters; whose entire goal is something they step on on the way to deep waters - and only on command day do they remember to come up with a variety of slogans about responsibility.
Maybe it's time for you to take stock of yourself - how is it that large parts of the public are disgusted with you and are willing to throw their votes away, the main thing is not to give you the power. Maybe you should ask yourself how many really vote out of identification with the party, compared to those who vote for you only because they are told to, but they detest you and your conduct?
Like me, for example.
Only at the last minute, at the behest and command of my father, did I put a G and spit in the envelope, and to this day I have heartburn from it. Like me, there are many thousands who vote with disgust only because their masters or parents ordered them to.
Everywhere they keep talking about V15, which poured money just to remove Netanyahu from power. For some reason, on the Haredi street, V15 passes quietly as if nothing had happened. A sea of money invested in just one thing: a well-honed campaign against the new party, with the help of party financing aimed at allowing the candidates to showcase their wares.
You have proven once again that if the elections are about action, some of you have nothing to show. That is why you preferred to go for targeted campaigns that are negative against that person.
An ultra-Orthodox party never stops telling the public how difficult the situation is and how much every vote and every mandate in the bloc is needed, and that same party pours a lot of money into hiring strategists whose sole purpose is to launch a negative campaign, a campaign whose sole purpose is to ensure that the ultra-Orthodox bloc loses four mandates, just so that they can later dance on the blood and say: Here, we said, here is irresponsibility, here is blasphemy.
Want peace? Here's a suggestion
We talk about division and the obligation to unite. When will you understand that peace is not about forcing the other to follow your path, without being able to preserve what is important to them, but rather peace is about allowing the other to follow their path and preserve what is important to them and walk together side by side?
Want peace?
Here's a suggestion: It's time for there to be one large Haredi party, but not one that unites the two established parties in the Ritz-Ritz method and that's it. This is not peace, but the Coalition of Revolution.
I'm talking about a list in which every population group has representation, a list in which many publics who currently do not feel part of or identify with the list will suddenly feel that there is somewhere to go and someone to vote for.
I have no doubt that if we learn from the Arabs to unite, but a unity that accepts the other even if he or she is annoying, we will succeed in creating a third or second largest list, and we will embark on a path of ascension.
Not like today, where we are shrinking under the protection of maintaining patronage and control games.
We received evidence for this from the editor of 'Bekhila', who called on charitable organizations not to assist those who did not vote in the elections for the Holy List.
Since when do we check the poor for tzitzit? Since when did the commandment of charity become dependent on politics? Only those who feel a sense of governmental superiority, those who feel that everyone owes them, only they can demand such a miserable request.
He still hasn't realized that people are frustrated. And now, instead of taking stock, they are standing on the blood of their friends and continue to rely on the entire incredible communal infrastructure of the Haredi public and exploit it to force the people to vote against their will.
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