Dr. Gal Levartov: You promised, so deliver
Dr. Gal Levartov calls on opposition leaders to fulfill their promises to voters regarding equality in burden-sharing, democracy, and national rehabilitation, instead of focusing on boycotting Arab parties. He argues that the insistence on the boycott plays into Netanyahu's hands and harms their credibility.
Dr. Gal Levartov, former head of the International Department at the State Attorney's Office, writes an opinion piece calling on opposition party leaders to keep their promises to voters, rather than focusing on the pledge to boycott Arab parties. Levartov argues that the insistence on boycotting Arabs plays into Benjamin Netanyahu's hands and contradicts other promises made: easing the burden on regular and reserve soldiers, equality in burden-sharing, rehabilitating democracy, establishing a state commission of inquiry, and removing "those who destroy Israel" from power. He notes that Netanyahu himself tried to form a coalition with an Arab party, and that his coalition partners include Haredi parties which he describes as non-Zionist. Levartov calls on opposition leaders to look at the war's victims and casualties and ask them whether the boycott is more important than all their other promises. The article is written from a personal and emotional perspective, using sharp rhetorical language.