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The Fall of the Labor Party
by D Tzfatman
The vociferous debate in the Labor Party's gathering and its
public denial regarding the accelerating decline of this
political party is a historic tolling of the bells. The
parting and abandonment of this public from "the party which
established the State" is taking place at a very significant
time, seventy years since the establishment of the Knesset
legislature, seventy years since the first elections.
Someone mentioned that this party, which held high the red
flag and commemorated on May 1st the national anthem in the
`Internationale', is now experiencing its death throes after
seventy years. This is the exact figure which the Chofetz
Chaim designated as the life span of the frightful Communist
Party, seventy years comparable to the seventy years of the
Babylonian exile, a prediction attributed to him. Amazing,
indeed, to witness how the living spirit of Israel [as a
state] is now dying out, precisely after an identical period
in time.
The party which believed on Socialism, regarding it as a
substitute for Yiddishkeit, now finds itself in front of a
broken food trough. The party which cast behind itself
Jewish tradition is now seeking an ideological vindication.
Communism is long defunct, and socialism has also proven to
be a shaky reed. The Left has similarly proven as a
worthless expectation. This actuality of seeing the downfall
of a party which was an unshakable stronghold, imposing
terror upon the whole country, is pitiful to behold, reduced
now to rubbish and scrap for the garbage dump of history.
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