Long story short – debunking the flaws on each side of Israeli political map – Left Wing, part one.

Disclaimer: this is my first ever actual full article (which would go into series) about politics and it was written originally in English and wasn't translated from Hebrew. 

One could say many things about Israeli Politics. However, most of the time, an outsider wouldn't know much, he might think he does but actually, the picture he sees is either filtered or just lacks information and background. To start talking about Israeli Politics without mentioning the plain "boring" facts there are things that come to my head when I am trying to explain the rationality of Israeli Politics: 1) Left and Right refer mainly to security and defence issues. 2) Israel has many political parties 3) the fact that Israel has many political parties reflects the Israeli society on its advantages and flaws but it also makes it way harder to rule and reign without political cynicism or political briberies.

.Yosef "Yossi" Sarid (D, 2015), A zionist lefty that was a unique man who today's left-wingers could only wish for

I don't define myself as either left or right. If someone points a gun to my head and tells me to choose a side I'd probably be more of a lefty but I'd say the main reason is because the government for the last 20+ years (or even 40 depends on how you define it) is right-wing while the current government is the rightest one to ever govern. I like to analyze every situation, question or issue by its own standards and rules – coming to deal with an issue on a blank page but from my experience and knowledge I'm part of the minority but I'm not the issue.

There are so many things I can write about when it comes to Politics, could be either something of real-time, philosophy, ideology, history, future, justice and much more.  But if there's a thing that I can say on each side of the map (left and right) as criticism which observes the bigger picture of the problems that each side has I'd point out those two anecdotes (one for each wing) with a little story as a background.

On 22^nd of March the left-wing political party – "Meretz" will have primaries, for the first time – open primaries (more about that here). Now before going to the primaries themselves I need to explain a little bit about Meretz. Meretz are the only "real left" party both in foreign policy and security and social-democratic financial views. Meretz doesn't reflect the popular opinion of the average Israeli and being the smallest party in the current parliament with only 5 sits (our of total 120, when the minimum sits a party could have to be part of the parliament is 4). However, it didn't stop the party from being very active especially on social issues not as a personal or public opinion but as facts – hours the party members spent in the Knesset, Amount of laws they tried to pass and indicators they got from various a-political organizations (although it's a controversial subject by itself).

Avi Buskila

One of the most interesting contenders to be the new Meretz leader is a guy that goes by the name of Avi Buskila. Buskila (42) was the secretary-general of the Lefty organization Shalom Ahshav (Peace Now) expect his political activities he's also active in the LGBT community being Homosexual himself and he's also "Mizrahi" (eastern ethnic-origin which isn't recognized with the left-wing overall and Meretz in particular).  Nevertheless, he has a lot of public service experience and being a Major/Executive Officer after serving for 12 years at IDF. In recent days, there were few topics about Buskila in Ha'aretz newspaper, which is the Meretz of the newspapers – left-winged paper that attacks the occupation and many of the government's policies. Many of those topics were somewhat negative and this is an example of the left-wingers in Israel who could be defind by the Latin saying – "Homo homini lupus" – Man is wolf to man. Moreover, that is the story of the left wing in Israel in a nutshell from my point of view.

I'm not saying that all the criticism is bad, such thing would be an absurd as that's what im doing myself, but, as much a journalism has its role of criticizing and "attacking" a paper like Ha'aretz who has a well-known strict agenda. It has to be smarter with its criticism and not shoot itself in its own leg as it does too often. By letting people hate it more but that’s one thing when the haters are the ones who oppose the paper (when oppose could mean many things, more about that maybe in a future post) and another thing when the paper awakes antagonism of its actual audience. And this is just one very good and symbolic example of one of the biggest flaws In the Israeli right wing. Just as Plato once wrote: Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

?Ha'aretz - The biggest and actual place for the left wing, but does it misses its own target