Leftist Elite To Create Israeli House Of Lords

“It would not be very progressive of us to simply accept the democratic will of the people – that is not what progressives do.”

Tel Aviv, October 27 – A dangerous streak of democratic elections that failed to return the Israeli Left to power has the secular, progressive, self-appointed conscience of the society in the latter stages of a plan to establish and run a House of Lords, following the model of Britain before the latter’s House of Lords became largely ceremonial.

Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken, his editorial staff, New Israel Fund director Mickey Gitzin, and the heads of NGOs such as B’tselem, Breaking the Silence, and Peace Now, have been working since the March 2015 election that kept Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud in power to implement a new governmental model for Israel, one that allows the clearly superior Left to veto the policies of the benighted populace that does not know what is good for it. The planned House of Lords is scheduled to begin its oversight and legislative operations at the end of next year, at which point it will assert those powers over the elected Knesset and government-appointed ministers, as well as over the military and other State institutions.

“If the people refuse to vote for our manifestly superior political agenda, then they manifestly do not deserve to participate in government,” explained Schocken during an interview at his office. “It would not be very progressive of us to simply accept the democratic will of the people – that is not what progressives do. If one looks at the example of the Soviets, who pioneered the progressive agenda in the twentieth century, it becomes clear that those who know best must take hold of the reins regardless of what the so-called popular will desires.”

The House of Lords does not aim to displace the current Knesset from the compound in the Givat Ram section of Jerusalem. Rather, said Gitzin, it will simply take over the Ministry of Defense facility in downtown Tel Aviv. “There is no real need for a Ministry of Defense in an enlightened society as we see it,” he noted. “A small force of volunteers should be more than sufficient for the utopia that will surely follow once we implement our policies. We will have no enemies ; those that we have now are entirely of our own making – that is, of Netanyahu’s making. This was a peaceful place until the right wing had the audacity to win a few elections.”

The group has yet to formalize the process for becoming a member of the House of Lords, but the participants so far agree it must involve only internal deliberations, since anyone not already part of the elite cannot be expected to possess the requisite moral and intellectual standing to make such a determination.

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