Unity after all: The Zionist interest above all

Amichai Attali calls for the establishment of a Zionist unity government, arguing that a government relying on Haredim or Arabs will abandon the Zionist majority. He defines Zionism as prioritizing the existence of the Jewish people in their land, and warns against dependence on non-Zionist parties.

In an opinion column on ynet, Amichai Attali calls for the establishment of a Zionist unity government, arguing that any partial government relying on the Haredim or the Arab parties will abandon the Zionist majority that serves and pays on critical fronts. He describes Yaakov Asher (United Torah Judaism) and Mansour Abbas (Ra'am) as 'the two most courted Knesset members' and the Zionist public as the one that will pay the price. Attali defines a 'Zionist' as a person whose top priority is the existence of the Jewish people in their land through the State of Israel, and accuses the Haredim of indifference to the Zionist enterprise and the Arab politicians of being unable to accept the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people. He proposes a division into four blocs: Netanyahu, Eisenkot, Haredim, and Arabs, and calls on the two Zionist blocs to overcome inter-bloc enmity and form a government based on the Zionist consensus. The article uses emotional arguments and a dichotomy between 'Zionists' and 'non-Zionists'.