the head with all the reports of
government corruption being
published by the state comp-
troller, Miriam Ben-Porat. Mrs.
Ben-Porat was Israel's Joan of
Arc in those days. She's been
largely forgotten today, as has
the movement against corrup-
tion.
There's still Aryeh Deri,
though. The former Interior
Minister is going on trial for a
slew of corruption charges, and
everybody except the Sephardi
Orthodox is deeply satisfied.
Justice is being done. But the
popular thinking seems to be
that a corrupt politician should
Political corruption
is taken for granted
in post-ideological
Israel.
be punished only if he can't do
you any good, if he acts on be-
half of some alien population
like the Sephardi Orthodox.
If he happens to be your may-
or, and he's good at the job, if he
keeps the streets clean and the
highrises going up, if he makes
the trains run on time, then cor-
ruption is a small price to pay
for excellence.
This is street-level politics in
post-Zionist, post-ideological Is-
rael. The economy is booming;
there's money to be made.
There are no suckers anymore
and very few idealists, except
for maybe the settlers, and look
what's going to happen to them.
Nobody gets rich; nobody gets
powerful by fair means.
Avigdor Kahalani didn't un-
derstand the voters' thinking;
he was two years or so behind
the times. A war hero and a
well-liked man, he ran for may-
or in Tel Aviv on his personal
credibility, his reputation for
honesty and loyalty. "You can
depend on Kahalani" was his
slogan. But in Tel Aviv, honesty
translates as naivete, and it
proved fatal.
He brought up a few items
from Mr. Milo's past as the
Likud's evil genius — how Mr.
Milo supposedly was responsi-
ble for spreading the lies that
Shimon Peres's mother was an
Arab, Yitzhak Rabin was a
drunk, and Peace Now was fi-
nanced by the CIA.
I asked Mr. Milo's campaign
adviser, Eyal Arad, if it was true
that Mr. Milo had cooked up the
poison about Mr. Peres and Mr.
Rabin. "It is not true," Mr. Arad
said.
A reporter for Israel Televi-
sion asked him about Peace
Now, and Mr. Milo replied on
camera, "Well, if you want to
bring up things that happened
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