- This is a very sad commentary on the state of affairs in our present government.
Yair Lapid – “This is what disintegration looks like.”
I sat in the Knesset plenum late last night and saw how Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yaalon, in the midst of a wave of terror attacks, voted against the soldiers and officers of the IDF and cancelled the “Equality in National Service” law.
I saw a Knesset member from the coalition mock the best parliamentarian in the Knesset over the fact that she is handicapped and wheel chair bound while the Prime Minister heard it and remained silent, the Minister of Social Equality heard it and remained silent, and the Knesset speaker heard it and remained silent.
I saw the youngest member of the Knesset, just 30 years old and an MK for just two months, abstain from voting on an amendment to the law which she herself proposed. Cynics say, ‘this is the way it is and she had no choice.’ They used the fact that she doesn’t know that it doesn’t have to be this way because there is always a choice to do what is right.
I saw a Knesset member who is an air force pilot, who demonstrated with me in favor of equality in national service, who told the press a few hours earlier that he would vote against the law, disappear from the plenum along with his conscience.
I saw an ultra-Orthodox MK disgracefully mock the size of kippa on the head of MK Elazar Stern – a general in the IDF, an Israeli hero, a religious man, with a beard on his face because he is still in the mourning period for his mother’s death.
And I saw a Prime Minister who simply doesn’t care anymore.”
Yair Lapid – “This is what disintegration looks like.”
