Israeli citizens are going to the polls for the fourth time in two years, proving that the political impasse in Israel has begun to take on long-term characteristics. The admittedly global success of the Benjamin Netanyahu government in being Israel’s first country in the world in vaccinations against the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates the admittedly well-organized, functioning and effectiveness of the Israeli state apparatus.
But despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get the whole population vaccinated before the new elections so that this success can be politically capitalized in his favor, it does not indicate that it will take place in the March 23, 2020 elections.
by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis
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Prime Minister Netanyahu’s corruption trial may have been adjourned but Israeli citizens have enough negative elements to charge him with, such as unemployment, the prolonged and deep crisis and the creation of two categories of citizens who on the one hand follow the instructions of the state and scientists and on the other hand the communities of ultra-Orthodox Jews who refuse vaccination and the government does not impose measures on them because simply this population group is one of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s biggest voting tanks.
In this way, this population group appears to be privileged and does not obey the instructions of the State Mechanism, in violation of the health measures to deal with the pandemic in masse and without punishment and without any type of sanction.
With this favour shown by the Netanyahu government, two categories of citizens A and B respectively are created which are currently separated from their compliance or non-compliance with health measures.
This does not mean, however, that in the future, for other social reasons, this group of ultra-Orthodox Jews will not again have a favour with the rest of the population, indirectly dividing Israeli society.
In addition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to vaccinate the populations of Palestinians, who live at the same time as the presence of the Israeli army and who enter and leave Israel for work-life reasons, turning them into mobile biological bombs.
It is the responsibility of the Israeli state to vaccinate the Palestinian populations living in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. There is a humanitarian and moral responsibility of Israel towards these populations and given that vaccine stocks are available.
Moreover, the political benefits for Israel would be greater because the Palestinians would find that despite their “undying” differences with the Israelis in difficult times for humanity, the people of Israel, through the Israeli state, are by their side. This could be capitalised later in the talks among Israel and PLO.
