...for the first time in a decade, we are facing a real danger - notes Kristóf Trombitás in his thought-provoking and heartfelt article, which was published on vasarnap.hu
It is worth paying attention to what is happening in Israel now, because Netanyahu's case is a good example of the eternal truth: after a while, people take all positive things as natural and self-evident.
Photo: MTI/AP/Ariel Schalit
Why am I saying this?
- As Minister of Finance, it was Netanyahu who fundamentally set the state, which until then had been operated mostly with left-wing ideas, on a new course.
- He radically cut back tax burdens and supported businesses.
- In the last decade, Israel's national debt has decreased drastically.
- With the Abraham Agreement, it was possible to reach an agreement with Arab states that would have been unthinkable before, and the USA recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
- Since 2010, the country has been characterized by a rarely experienced economic growth.
- It made Israel the most closed state in the world, they were the first to open in the entire Earth.
And the result? Four elections were won but did not give a majority. It is a shame to assume that the success policy will produce results by itself Some of the voters quickly forget that they will become millionaires after a famine. What is natural now is already given and ready. Period.
In addition, the recipe of the Israeli opposition was exactly the same as it had been in Poland and Hungary in the past – fortunately unsuccessfully so far: everyone teamed up with everyone else to overthrow the existing power. Would anyone have thought 10 years ago that the Civil Platform would start together with the Post-Communists? What about the entanglement of Jobbik and DK? Or that the Israeli far right is the same as Muslim traditionalists?
This is the new recipe for progress if they want to replace the reigning, conservative government. It is used all over the world. And so, despite the fact that a significant part of the Israeli electorate voted for right-wing parties, a left-wing government is installed. Master plan.
You have to deal with the opponent!
We already learned this in 2002, and that's why we have to forcefully point out who our opponents are. It doesn't work without it. We must also prepare for 2022 in this spirit. Why am I saying this? Because I hear and see from right and left how otherwise well-meaning people who breathe with us say that there is no need to deal with the left so much. We just lift them up, they say. We provide them with useless advertising, they add. We elevate them, define them as real opponents, close the warning.
And I respect their opinion, but they are not right . We do have to deal with what the left says, we have to point out what they are doing, and what we are doing in contrast. Understand, the most important message of 2002 is that we cannot only care about ourselves. If we don't let our people know how big the stakes are, many people may become unsure.
This is not an exaggeration, but the fact is that we are facing a real danger for the first time in a decade. Let's behave in this spirit.
As for the current foreign policy, only one thing is important to us: there should be governments in certain countries with whom we can work together . Nothing else matters because it is not our country. Let's not be good people unnecessarily, because no one pays for it and we are doing badly.
Responsible Hungarian foreign policy rests on two foundations: the protection of Hungarians across the border and the highest possible well-being of those within the border. That's it.
If, by the way, dictatorships also provide help, we thank them and deal with them in their place. But the best possible example of this is the cooperation of the V4s. We think the same with the Czech government about few things, but we follow exactly this few when it comes to cooperating with Western Europe.
And it works because we don't tire each other out with unnecessary ideological debates.
Let's keep the gunpowder dry, think the Hungarian way and be sane. Curtain.
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Photo: MTI/AP/Ariel Schalit
