Does Judaic Orthodoxy Have a Revived Say in Israeli Politics? - Does Netanyahu's Likud Lead There?

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jun 21, 2022 at 14:06

The very recent demise of PM Bennett's coalition government of Israel have any residual lessons about how Israel's form of demoncracy is fragile at best; but more obviously tragic from a foreign spectator's perspective in that Israel's vulnerability to political interaction not only from abroad is caustic; but from within as well as the nation struggles in its identity crisis as the chosen people of her Almighty Sovereign to witness to the world as t what happens when a people chose to ignore the warnings of Jeremiah, thereby suffereing the consequences.
Israel's inability to form a recognizable goverment should be no surprise to those who know where Israel's destiny lays; its future is already determined.
But the variant factions of those that would seek to alter that destiny are clueless as to the how and why Israel founders governmentally and the rest of the world is waiting like hyenas to pounce on the instability that might give opportunity to wrest occupational control from the Jewish state to a coalition state; yet all are doomed to fail. The Babylonians tried; the Medo Persians; Greeks; Romans; (faux) Christianity; Islam; secularistic humanism; all have had their intentions tested and none have achieved total superiority: why?
Talmudic influences aside, Orthodox Judaism actually has residual traces of the determination that was made centuries ago: Israel is following the ancient pronouncements that were occasioned by Moses and his meetings with Israel's Almighty Sovereign, the Ancient of Days, the Holy One of Israel as named in Isaiah 49, the Holy Spirit of Whom was in charge then; and is in charge now. Now the secularists are turning and spinning in their revulsions of the religious implications here, but eventually the truth of that will be more fully revealed. Does the return of a Bibi Netanyahu influenced government bring about a greater impact of determinations from a Haredim perpsective? Not likely directly: but Orthodox Judaism still has connections to a Torah based potential revival of a Jewish based promise of governance that will eventually return to the rule of law that is promised as a future fulfillment, such as referenced in Zechariah. The question remains: does a Netanyahu influenced government have that expectation? Not sure; still waiting to see.

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