Truth be told, there is nothing to complain about MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi. She is a woman of "principles," prepared to fight for them but she has also has good mentors. She recently announced that she was leaving the government coalition because of her principles, but she changed her mind after a few days.
In the Coalition of which she is a member, she sits with others who made supposedly immutable announcements and promises. They established their principles before the elections and were elected to the Knesset on the basis of what they promised. One of them, Naftali Bennett, even succeeded in extorting from his companions the most coveted office of Prime Minister. He had promised the public that he would not sit with the Left, meaning not with Meretz, and surely that meant he would not sit together with Arab lists. He declared that he would never let Yair Lapid become prime minister. That's what he promised to his voters.
However, on the day after the elections, when he realized the opportunity which fell his way, he dumped all of his promises into the garbage of history. A Rightist with ideologies. He sold everything for a potage of power and gave the representatives of the "Moslem Brothers" who — in all of the benign Arab countries are outlawed — the power of government, the right of veto, and with unbridled arrogance, broke all of his promises to the voters.
No Justice and No Law
One small thing about the rule of law. In order that Mansour Abaas, the Arab party member who is part of the ruling coalition, continue supporting the government, he received an official letter from the director of the Welfare Ministry, Meir Cohen, who is also government-appointed official for dealing with the Bedouin settlements in the Negev. According to this letter, Israeli Bedouin can continue to build illegal housing in the Negev so long as it does not exceed seventy meters.
Can you imagine that? It is anchored in law. Up to now no Israeli citizen is permitted to even extend a porch without a fully legal building permit. But no one is stopping the Bedouin.
It is a fact that today, anyway the Bedouin in the Negev and the Arabs in the Galil build to their heart's content with hardly any legal intervention. And they are fully aware that they are breaking the law, even if one overlooks things here and there.
But along comes the government in the name of the law, and issues an official letter permitting Bedouin Israeli citizens to overtly break the law. Admittedly, the deputy Attorney General issued a letter stating that such construction is illegal but the Bedouin - were they able to study the subject - would be able to extrapolate [by 'kal vochomer], by brutally and blatantly taking over government lands with no one raising a finger against them, subsequently, when the government of law certifies that they can build illegal construction, they have nothing to be afraid of.
And to think that this selfsame company of hypocrites attacks the head of the Opposition for seeking to undermine the government of law in the country. It proves that if we thought that there was a limit to hypocrisy, we realize that it has long been passed.
