There was a relatively unimportant vote on the Judicial Selection Committee in Israel Wednesday, which the Netanyahu coalition lost because four members secretly voted with the opposition. By any standard, this was a far less important vote than the debt ceiling vote. But look how opposition leader Yair Lapid handled it:
“What we saw yesterday in the Knesset vote was the beginning of a new Israeli alliance,” said Lapid Thursday morning. “From the chaos and mayhem and lies, an alliance has been created that no longer deals with right, left and center— but rather with an attempt to safeguard the State of Israel.
“Coalition MKs who went behind the screen and voted in favor of MK Karine Elharrar did not switch parties [and] did not receive any promise. They did it because they are decent people and are no longer willing to be part of the mechanism destroying Israeli society. I am full of respect for this,” the opposition chief added.
“We will keep working with them to ensure the well-being of Israeli democracy,” Lapid said. “Some of them are telling us: ‘Even in an open vote, we won’t cooperate with anything that damages the State of Israel. We weren’t elected to the Knesset to serve the extremists.
“This alliance is the future of the country. A patriotic, liberal, decent, incorrupt majority that acts to boost security, to lower the cost of living, to create a constitution, and most of all— that is determined to ensure that this nation won’t be torn apart,” he said.
Note that not a single Democrat even took a stab at making this point, after the GOP split over the debt ceiling. What a missed opportunity for the unity against lunacy that America so obviously wants.