We Israelis know how to die together, but we don't know how to live together. I didn't believe that the general elections would be held early, but had they been, the system would have been the same old system, the injustice would have been the same old injustice and the lack of real governance would have been preserved. We would have held elections, fed the campaign monster, and benefitted mainly the various political commentators, media advisers and government bureaucrats. A minister will come and go, but a bureaucrat will forever remain. The state coffers would have been depleted by hundreds of millions of shekels, new parties would have popped up like mushrooms, and the public would have been left paying the price. And the price would have been twofold because, first of all, the elections would have been entirely unnecessary at this time, and secondly, under the current system, the very ills that brought about the elections would have been only further reinforced. I was shocked to see how annoyed the political commentators and the media were at the unity government deal, having forgotten, apparently, that only a week ago the trendy thing to say was how the public didn't want elections. It appears that the true flip-floppers in this scenario are those journalists who say one thing on Sunday and the opposite on Friday. I find it difficult to understand why those who always talk about making peace with our neighbors would do everything in their power to undermine peace among ourselves. Maybe it is because they don't care about actual change, only about the battle to effect it. Kadima's chairman and the prime minister of Israel made a brave and wise decision for the State of Israel: to establish a broad national unity government and to modify the system of government. They both knew that they would be criticized for it. Instead of celebrations on this political holiday we heard remarks like "a political terror attack" and questions like "how is it that the media wasn't notified-" They suddenly realized that there are bosses in this country, there are those who were elected to shape and change the country's agenda and they are not the ones who are sitting at their keyboards or talking on the screens. Not everything is politics. Our power is in our unity. I hope that this unity government the first unity government in years will effect unity among the people as well. The writer is a Kadima MK.