You get the feeling that the election isn't over. The Left's "introspection" since the results were announces points to its next loss. The main points: those who voted for the Right are little children who understand nothing and can be led by the nose. They have no ideology, no worldview, no serious take on reality. In fact, they are just a bundle of emotion, a bunch of homeless in need of a warm ideological home. And yes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "frightened the public" -- unbelievable; have we not heard constantly for the past three months that Netanyahu being elected will hasten the end of the state and the end of the universe itself? What remains after the soul-searching that never took place? "Netanyahu said that the Arabs are at our door." Are you serious? This is what was said on election day: "The government of the Right is in danger. The Arab voters are turning up at the polls en masse. The left-wing groups are busing them in." What's the problem? Not "Arabs are at our door" and not "a swarm of Arabs is surrounding us," as Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog put it, but "the Arab voters." Anyone who thinks that's racism is the real racist, because they assume that "Arabs" is a pejorative term. Did anyone cast doubt on their right to vote? Yes, the Joint Arab List posed a threat to the Right's chances of winning; there is history here. Not by chance were the leftist groups providing the Arab voters with transportation. The Left was counting on stymieing the prime minister through an informal electoral bloc that would include the Arab parties, but not include its MKs in any government that would be formed. Use them and toss them. So who here is the racist? Treating the Joint Arab List voters like political opponents -- who head out to vote to use their right to replace the government -- is much more respectful than the racist way some of the Left treated residents of the periphery: like employees, like people who don't understand anything, like homeless in need of a warm home, who vote "like battered women." "Arab voters" is also much more respectful than "the settlers" or "the religious" or "the ultra-Orthodox." Hatnuah leader Tzipi Livni, incidentally, who accused Netanyahu of using scare tactics, herself threatened the citizens of Israel that electing a right-wing government would lead to "Israel becoming an Arab country." She went on to quote someone who said, "We didn't make aliyah so there would be an Arab country here," and to sum it up announced the raison d'être of the heads of the leading party on the Israel Left. Take note: "We are motivated by the fear that Netanyahu is leading us toward an Arab country." So Tzipi Livni is declaring that the Arabs among us represent a threat. She didn't say it in the heat of election day, but calmly and coolly two days later. Send those words to U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. Well then, representatives of the Joint Arab List: Based on that platform, that the biggest threat to Israel is "an Arab country," did you intend to recommend to the president that Livni and Herzog form the next government?
