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The left’s Likudnik

The left’s Likudnik
President Reuven Rivlin is winning unexpected fans

HE MAY be a lifelong member of the Likud party, but Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, is losing support among Israeli conservatives. On July 31st Jewish vigilantes killed two members of a Palestinian family, including an 18-month-old toddler, in an arson attack in the West Bank that was supposedly “revenge” for Palestinian home-building there. In a message published in both Hebrew and Arabic, Mr Rivlin wrote that “my people have chosen the path of terror and lost human form.” For speaking out, he received a torrent of online abuse, and even death threats from some quarters. Daniella Weiss, leader of a settlers’ group, tastefully quipped that “Rivlin can sleep quietly. He’s not important enough to be killed.” 

But the president’s focus on confronting racism has made him a surprising darling of the Israeli left. In interviews for his first anniversary in office at the end of July, Mr Rivlin attacked “those who believe that a Jewish-democratic state is a democracy for Jews only.” By doing so, the president staked out distinct territory from that of his own party leader, Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. 

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But though the president’s statements are a welcome counter to a rising tide of hatred between Israel’s communities, left-wingers and liberals might remind themselves that they are embracing a supporter of the settlements who has also said that “Zion is all ours. We must build in all the land of Israel.” His popularity among the opposition is chiefly a function of the centre-left’s failure to anoint a leader capable of challenging the four-term prime minister, Mr Netanyahu.

“There is a deep leadership vacuum on the left,” says Tamar Zandberg, a Knesset member of the left-wing Meretz Party. “Rivlin is a right-winger, but also a democrat, a man who represents liberal values of equality. He has filled space just by doing what the leaders of the main parties on right and left are failing to do, saying what needs to be said about human rights and dignity.”

Still, Mr Rivlin has no real alternative to offer. He dismisses the plausibility of a two-state solution, describing it as patronising to imagine that the Palestinians could ever accept a solution where “one state is an invincible superpower and the other is sub-autonomous” in a recent interview. He doesn’t think Israel should end its military occupation of the Palestinian territories. Instead he will only commit himself to a hazy notion of “confederacy” with Palestinians and Jordanians. 

The role of Israel’s president is anyway ambiguous. The title was invented by Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, to honour, but also to sideline, the veteran Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann. “My handkerchief is the only thing I can stick my nose into,” the powerless Weizmann later grumbled.