Friends, my friends on the right,
the fear is evident in your eyes.
You are simply afraid.
You are afraid because over the last two years,
we exposed your corruption.
We exposed how, behind your ideological veneer,
you took Israeli public funds,
the taxes that the public worked so very hard for,
and you transferred it to your friends.
For jobs, to insiders, to activists, to private NGOs.
How the Jewish Home Party,
which presents itself as more Zionist than Ben-Gurion,
how this party took public funds
and instead of transferring them
to the failing factories in the Israeli periphery,
instead of transferring them to places like Pri Galil and Arad,
instead of transferring them to hospitals
in order to increase the the number of beds,
instead of going to expand classrooms,
instead of improving public transportation,
you took our money, and you threw it,
you gave it as a gift to your friends--
to private NGOs at whose heads sit Jewish Home members.
Where is Naftali Bennett
to respond to the matter of the granting of 36 million shekel
to the YESHA Settler Council in an illegal manner?
Where?
Respond and answer.
Don't argue with us about Zionism.
Because true Zionism, friends,
is to distribute the budget equally among all citizens.
True Zionism is to be concerned for the weak.
True Zionism is solidarity,
not only in war, but in the day to day,
to watch out for each other.
This is what it means to be Israeli.
This is Zionism.
To be concerned about the future of the citizens of Israel.
In the hospitals, in the schools, on the roads, on welfare.
That is Zionism.
And you're taking it and destroying it.
You're taking it and turning the public purse
into a license for your own political horse trading,
instead of worrying about the country.
You forgot about the Negev and the Galil
in order to transfer 1.2 billion shekel bonuses to the settlements.
You forgot Israel.
You lost Zionism already some time ago.
Friends, when we sing "Hatikva"
we sing it with the fullest sense of the word.
"Hope": a politics of hope.
A politics that has a future.
A politics that looks forward
and wants to make life here better, more secure;
that wants to make peace;
that wants fix the relationships
between the different parts of Israeli society;
that believes in equal rights,
in equality of budget,
that thinks that every single Israeli citizen deserves an equal portion,
deserves to live here a truly good life.
That is the true Zionism.
That's HaTikva ("the hope").
If Netanyahu were to write our national anthem,
we would have to call it the anthem of despair.
Against your politics, we fight.
Against the slander and against the lies.
And for a politics of hope.
Of a future, of good.
Thank you.
