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SJN May 2021 R4 (002 STARK FEATURED ARTICLES Friends Campaign | pg 5 Directory Information | pg 7 JEWISHNEWS Confirmation | pg 10 Volume 100 • Number 9 | Iyar / Sivan 5779 • May 2021 Graduating Seniors | pg 11 tion, for example the fact that even if you’re indicted you can continue to serve as prime minister. The outcome is virtual paralysis for the last two years. Why does Netanyahu keep winning, Does the Israeli judicial system offer any exit from this deadlock — for example, forc- ing Netanyahu out if he’s convicted? Not for the foreseeable future. Because even if there is a conviction in district court, and whatever happened to the there are Supreme Court appeals, and the legal processes take years. How is this affecting voting patterns and the general discourse? For Mr. Netanyahu, his key interest is no longer serving as the prime minister of every- Israeli left? body. His primary political goal is to hold onto his base, so he speaks to his base and his This Q&A is adapted from one of four public con- key political allies, the ultra-Orthodox parties. This brings about far more divisive rhetoric JTA Staff versations about the future of Israel being held every and political dynamics. He has a very solid base of about a quarter of Israelis that believe Wednesday at noon ET in a collaboration between JTA in his leadership capabilities and are persuaded that the indictment is politically moti- and the Israel Democracy Institute in the lead-up to Israel’s vated and can be overlooked. March 23 elections. The program is being funded by the On the eve of the 2015 elections, Netanyahu made a divisive comment about “Arabs Marcus Foundation. To register for the March 17 session, please sign up here. coming to the polls in droves” that stirred outrage overseas. Now he’s making those kinds Israel is about to hold its fourth elections in just two years, a sign of political instability. of comments all the time, warning of an invasion of Black converts from Africa, disparag- Yet in each of the six national elections over the last 12 years, the result at the top has ing Reform Jews. It seems like he just doesn’t care. been the same: Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. Meanwhile, the Israeli left has Netanyahu’s perspective toward the Arab minority has changed, in a very interesting gradually disappeared. development. The strategic imperative of Netanyahu’s premiership, even since his first What does this mean for Israel’s political future? And is there a way out of Israel’s politi- premiership in the 1990s, was to nurture, preserve and strengthen the alliance with the cal stalemate? ultra-Orthodox and delegitimize the participation of representatives of the Arab minority. The Q&A below, which has been condensed and lightly edited, was adapted from It was a decades-long project that secured his grip on power. This project peaked in the a recent public Zoom conversation featuring Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel 2015 statement about Arabs being bused in droves to the polls. Even in September 2019, Democracy Institute, and Ron Kampeas, JTA’s Washington bureau chief. the main theme of the election was ‘The Arabs are going to steal the election.’ This project JTA: Why is Israel holding a fourth election in just two years, and can it avoid a fifth was successful: When the Blue and White party had a majority to form a government with election? the Arab Joint List, the alliance was perceived as insufficiently legitimate in the eyes of Plesner: We are heading to a fourth election because Mr. Netanyahu was not able to the broad Israeli public and this is why it wasn’t formed. achieve the majority he needed both to become prime minister and put in place the judi- Now Netanyahu is changing his strategy and trying to lure votes of Arab citizens cial changes that would enable him to subvert, undermine and suspend the legal process because he sees the numbers and the potential. We’re no longer in a campaign of Likud he is facing. On the other hand, no one else had the majority to form an alternative stable voters confronting Arab voters. This actually has an effect on public opinion. A record government. As long as there is no decisive outcome, we might end up going to cycle number of Jewish Israelis support and think it’s legitimate to have the Arab Joint List as number five and six, as absurd and sad as it sounds. part of a coalition. This is quite a dramatic change. So he’s got the wherewithal to get elected but not the wherewithal to protect himself With respect to the Reform movement, this is a group that is persecuted in a repulsive from legal prosecution? manner by ultra-Orthodox representatives in a way that is completely un-Zionist and un- We’re two years into Israel’s worst political crisis in its history: virtually no legislation. Jewish and uninclusive. Netanyahu is so dependent on the ultra-Orthodox that he basical- No budget. No reforms. Very few key appointments of top civil servants. Decision-making ly granted them a monopoly on domestic issues, especially issues of religion and state. has been suspended for two years, and for the last year we’ve had the worst economic Could the Arabs parties join a Likud-led government without discrediting themselves? crisis in a decade resulting from the COVID crisis. About 85% of Israeli Arabs – who comprise 20% of Israel’s population – want their Why aren’t the Israeli people taking our fate into our hands? Our prime minister is elected Knesset representatives to be part of a coalition government. This is a break from under indictment, but he’s using his personal clout and political savvy to address his legal the past, when being part of a Zionist coalition was perceived as illegitimate. Now it’s dif- needs. And there are inherent weaknesses in our electoral system, our constitutional ferent. Israeli Arabs increasingly want to be part of the state, and they understand this is system – the fact that we don’t have a constitution – and some loopholes in our legisla- their fate, future and fortune. Their representatives are responding accordingly. On the one hand, if the center-left wants to be in power, they need some kind of an alli- ance with the Arab minority. On the other hand, it’s illegitimate in the eyes of many Jewish Israelis. Yair Lapid [leader of the Yesh Atid party] understood this complexity. He played a dual game. He said he wouldn’t ally with the Arab Joint List before the March 2020 CANTON, OHIO CANTON, REQUESTED elections and then he went all out to build this alliance in the post-election. Now Lapid Permit No. 159 No. Permit SERVICE SERVICE PAID changed his stance. He constantly says, “I think it’s legitimate, and I have all intention if ADDRESS ADDRESS need be to form a coalition with them.” U.S. Postage U.S. An exciting dramatic twist is the Islamist element of the Joint List, Raam. Not only Presorted Standard Presorted Cont'd / See NETANYAHU Page 3 2 | FROM THE FEDERATION STARK JEWISH NEWS • MAY 2021 • www.jewishcanton.org CJCF OFFICERS: Dan Charlick, President Alla Haut, Vice President Eileen Saltarelli, Secretary Paul Hervey, Treasurer Tyler Wilkof, Past President CJCF BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Michael Alperin • Jack Bouer Barb Ferne • Robert Friedman • Carolyn Garfinkle Laura Goldman • Meade Perlman • Rita Schaner Daniel Silverman • Jeff Sklar • Laura Solomon John Strauss • Fran Wells • Bruce White • Susan Wilkof We Protect Ourselves, When We Protect Others OTHER MEMBERS: May 8, marks the end of WW2 in Europe and is popularly known as VE day. Richard Altman/Michael Zoldan, Shaaray Torah In October, 1945, several months after the war’s end, the Council of the Evangelical Hazzan Bruce Braun, Shaaray Torah Church in Germany met and heard, “A Declaration of Guilt” by Pastor Martin Niemoller. Shelley Schweitzer, Temple Israel In the past few years, there has been a remarkable rise in White Supremacy here in the Rabbi David Komerofsky, Temple Israel USA. In commemoration of VE day, I should like to paraphrase his words in a message Michael Magill, Chadash for our times: Jonathan Wilkof, Chadash Lanny Knell, Agudas Achim Rabbi A.J. Kushner, Agudas Achim “First they came for the African Americans, and I didn’t speak up because I was not an African American. Then they came for the Hispanics, and I didn’t speak up RABBI SHELDON W because I was not a Hispanic. 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