Yael Sara Rep, knitted news23.11.22 16:20 29 in Hashvan Tishpag
Zehava Galon Photo: Avshalom Sashoni, Flash 90
At the Meretz board meeting, which convened last night (Tuesday) for the first time since the party did not pass the threshold of obstruction in the elections, board members attacked the party’s chairman Zehava Galon following her support after the failure of the elections in the struggle of Beit Shean youth to liberate Nahal Hasi from Kibbutz Nir David. The party management that criticized Galon for the move defined the fight for the Esi as a “violent attack”.
As you may remember, last week, after the defeat in the elections, Galon referred in an interview to Hilo Glazer in Haretz to the mistakes Meretz made over the years, including renouncing the struggle for the liberation of Nahal Hasi. “Let’s tell our supporters in the kibbutzim that the Kabbalah Committees Law is a racist law. We also ignored the struggle over Nahal Hassi. It was a mistake,” she said.
During the party’s executive meeting last night, as part of the criticism against her, Galon was even asked to apologize to the members of the kibbutz. Amichai Geller, who served as the secretary of Kibbutz Nir David and a senior member of the National Fish Growers Organization, attacked Galon in a long speech: “I could write about a series of failures throughout the last three months,” and detailed the series of failures in the campaign in his eyes, then added: “The only reason, that I am Here to speak, this is a request from Zava to apologize to the members of Kibbutz Nir David.”
Nahal Hassi and Kibbutz Nir David (Photo: Menachem Lederman, Flash 90)
“It started with some funny Yanese tiktok, and it’s good that Arsim came to Essi. It was enough that it increased dozens of voters for Meretz, but then came the interview in Haretz, the link between the Essi problem, to social justice and implicitly to the reason for the loss in the elections. It is an almost personal slap in the face to all the members of the kibbutz.”
“The Essie problem, which was imposed on us, was the result of a wild incitement, by the eastern democratic arch with the combined involvement of the Barak Foundation, Yair Netanyahu and Moshe Arbel of Shas”, he continued and pointed to the factors that he sees as responsible for the struggle to liberate the river and added: “Those who have not experienced the violent outbursts into the kibbutz, the blasphemy of the elders and the siege of the gates, it is better not to joke at the expense of the kibbutz.”
“Wild incitement of the eastern democratic arch in Shalhoub by Yair Netanyahu and members of the Knesset” claimed the member of the kibbutz (Photo: Haim Goldberg)
The knitters learned that during the meeting, the party leaders said that they plan to maintain the party’s institutions – in the hope of being able to return in some way in the future. The local government elections are now on the agenda, when Meretz candidates were told last week by the party’s secretary general and party chairman that Meretz would not be willing to finance their run and that they recommend the candidates to run in the local elections under platforms other than Meretz.
From “Freeing the Hassi” it was reported: “Zahva Galon’s recognition of the importance of the struggle to free Nahal Hassi, even if she came too late, is unusual in the landscape, important and welcomed. In contrast to her, Amichai Geller, former secretary of Kibbutz Nir David, reflects her blindness with great precision of Meretz, a blindness that included ignoring entire groups in Israeli society and perhaps also explains why these groups ignored her back.”
“The preference of only dozens of residents, as Mr. Geller claimed himself, over the other millions of residents who are denied access to a public natural resource that belongs to all of us, without any constitutional basis, indicates how much the fight for distributive justice in particular and the promotion of the periphery in general are not at the top of Geller’s mind, which apparently is having a hard time To see the connection between privileges that are systematically given to the group to which he belongs and the struggle for equality. We hope that the Ministry of Justice, which has to decide on the way to make Nahal Hasi accessible to the general public throughout its length and width, will choose a way that will benefit the public as a whole and not preserve the privilege of a few.”
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