MK Eitan Cabel (Labor) blasted his fellow party members Saturday evening and said that “they are so addicted to the thrills of power that they have left behind any value that they ever believed in.” Members of Labor “have turned into power junkies,” he said. “They refuse to be rehabilitated and to start building their lives anew. They refuse to go back to themselves and ask for another fix of power.”
Cabel spoke at a rally organized by Peace Now – a group that opposes Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria. The event was billed as a “costume party” in the spirit of Purim, and advertised that the political message is that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are masking the fact that their government is a radical right-wing one.
The advertisements placed by "Peace Now” to promote the rally proclaimed: “How long will Bibi (the Prime Minister's nickname – ed.) and Barak continue to masquerade as moderate centrists, but act like radical right-wingers? It is time to unmask them and reveal their true faces!”
Left-wing groups have recently made similar claims against Im Tirtzu, a grassroots Zionist movement of students and reservists. While Im Tirtzu says it is centrist-Zionist, its detractors claim that it is “fascist.” Meanwhile, many nationalists say that the Zionist Labor movement, once centrist and patriotic, has adopted a post-Zionist stance and is collaborating with Israel's enemies.