Labor Party Launches Campaign Slogan: 'Vote for Us, We’re Still Here, Technically'

Labor must do the hard work of disassociating itself from the now-untouchable land-for-peace paradigm.

Tel Aviv, August 14 - Leaders of a political party that once exercised effective control over Israel's entire political system for decades and now clings to existence only as part of a larger alliance that itself holds the minimum number of seats in the Knesset has decided to bank on its legacy as the faction that led the country to miraculous success during the Jewish State's first thirty years, and, they hope, generate enough nostalgia for the Good Old Days to prompt at least some undecided voters to realize the party exists, after a fashion, and maybe you can tap into the greatness of the state's founding generation somewhat vicariously? Please?

The remnants of Israel's Labor Party, which now forms a rump parliamentary faction with the remnants of the Meretz Party called The Democrats, polled its membership and the general public, and have decided to risk parting ways with Meretz allies, in the hopes of differentiating themselves from the increasingly-marginal far-left that Meretz has come to represent, according to party stalwarts.

MK Merav Michaeli disclosed earlier this week that Labor will seek to run separately from Meretz in any upcoming elections, which survey data suggests provides them with the only way of avoiding permanent sinking into oblivion, a sad contrast with the dominant position Labor and its predecessor Mapai held during the glory days of such towering figures as David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, and Yitzhak Rabin.

"Our best bet involves divorcing ourselves from the dead-in-water ideas that Meretz can't escape being associated with," she explained in an interview. "We're as anti-Bibi as the next member of the Opposition, but political realities are political realities. Labor must do the hard work of disassociating itself from the now-untouchable land-for-peace paradigm that it embodied since the 1990's, and begin associating itself once again with the pioneering spirit that defined it for the decades before. Most of the settlements were built under Labor governments."

"If we can remind the electorate that the party behind the victory in 1967 and the Entebbe raid in 1976 is still alive, technically, then we stand a chance of reclaiming our place in Israel's political pantheon."

MK Yair Golan, chairman of The Democrats and a veteran of Meretz, appeared resigned to the developments. "We came here to save Israeli democracy," he lamented. "But the will of the people remains at odds with democracy. We few enlightened ones who know what's good - that's who should be in charge. That's democracy."

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