The clock hands are ticking toward midnight of Wednesday night – the deadline for the Knesset to choose a candidate for prime minister. If this scenario doesn’t occur, as seems highly unlikely, the Knesset will be automatically dispersed.
The Knesset’s Arrangements Committee met on Wednesday morning to begin preparations for the 22nd Knesset’s dissolution, paving the ground for new elections – the third elections to take place in Israel in less than a year and less than three months after Israel’s last election.
The Knesset passed a preliminary vote to dissolve itself and hold new elections on March 2, 2020. The Knesset must hold three more votes on Wednesday before midnight in order to change the next election date from the scheduled date of March 10 – which falls out on Purim [except for Jerusalem and other walled cities] – to March 2nd, with the last vote scheduled shortly before midnight.
According to Israeli law, new elections are to be held on the first Tuesday 90 days after the Knesset is dissolved. However, if necessary, the date can be changed by a majority vote in the Knesset. Since the first Tuesday after 90 days falls out on Purim [which actually may be an apt day to express the ridiculousness of a third election], and the other Tuesdays in March were deemed problematic due to various reasons, the date has been changed to Monday, March 2nd – 82 days after the Knesset will be dissolved.
In a letter that Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit wrote to the Knesset regarding the legal options to change the date of the elections, he pointed out that the elections don’t necessarily have to be held on a Tuesday if the date is changed. However – he said – if the elections fall out on a Wednesday or Thursday, it’s possible that the counting of the envelopes won’t be completed before Shabbos, which would delay the announcement of the election results.
Blue and White MK Avi Nissenkorn opened the Arrangements Committee’s meeting, saying: “This is not a happy day for the Knesset.” Arab Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi chimed in by requesting to set a date for the fourth elections as well.
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The true cause is idol worship. Israelis worship the military like a god and want the Charedim to bow to that god. Why else the insistence that Charedim be drafted? There are already 18,000 soldiers too many. Because it’s not fair? Is it fair that we keep Shabbos our whole lives and you party? Is it fair that the military is crafted in the image of Chiloni apikoris and arrogance? Hey Chiloni, how about you be a Toldos Aaron chossid for 2.5 years. That kind of culture clash is what you are demanding of us. You demand we join your culture, maybe you should join ours. How do you have three elections and none of the normal issues of a society get discussed: the economy, security, education, health. That’s what normal societies talk about. The Mistake of Israel is not a normal society. It wasn’t formed naturally as other societies are. It was formed as a rebellion against God and Torah. And so you get a political stalemate which is essentially all about the draft and a peacetime draft. There hasn’t been war with another nation in 50 years but Israelis insist on the draft as if it were mesorah from Sinai. For them, it is mesorah, mesorah from Herzl, the man who wanted to convert all the Jews to Catholicism, mesorah from Ben Gurion, a self-professed atheist who according to Yeshayahu Leibowtiz hated religion more than any other person he had ever met, mesorah from Jabotinsky who was a fascist atheist. Choose your god Israel. Do you worship the Creator of heaven or earth or the Baal? It’s one or the other.