Shirley Pinto, ninth on the right, according to the polls as the fourth largest party, spoke today (Sunday) with Yinon Magal and Leakey Adamker on Walla’s and 103fm’s personal elections’ and stressed that she made the transition to public life to work for about 2 One million Israelis with disabilities. In an interview without hesitation to present herself as a right-wing woman, she emphasized: No, people with disabilities really do not need kindness and mercy. They need equality.
In her words, as stated, she did not spare criticism of the treatment of people with disabilities in Israel. “I do not understand where the country is. An entire population that is just ‘type G’, what is this thing? Where is the country in these things?”, She asked, adding: “We are citizens with a blue ID, pay taxes, love the country, serve in the army And in national service. Where is the country when we need it? “
Pinto noted that she has approached politicians to help promote for people with disabilities. “I submitted bills, they told me they would advance – but the next day they disappeared and did not answer my phone calls. The day after the election we are forgotten.”
For Pinto, the reason for choosing politics comes from home – as a daughter of a deaf and deaf and blind mother, as a spouse of a deaf person and even as a mother of a deaf toddler about two years old: “From the age of 0 I saw the difficult barriers my parents go through. I remember asking my father if deaf people could not fit in, and he said that was the reality. When I reached adolescence I began to shape my identity and began to understand that I was not ready to understand this fate. My father studied film and screenwriting and wanted to join the industry but at some point gave up the dream. “He went to work as a writer. My mother was a model, she had dreams from heaven to heaven.”
Pinto added in pain: “I did not have friends, they would look at me strangely and I do not want my son to go through it. Unfortunately I know he will go through, but unlike my parents I will prepare him for it. Now he is protected, but I am afraid that when he grows up he wants to go to afternoon classes They will not accept him, or boycott him and return home crying because he has no friends. The country is progressing slowly, all over the world the level of accessibility is reaching heights, Israel is lagging behind. I love the country and am willing to sacrifice myself for it, its security is important to me, but I said where the country is. “It does not make sense to take care of its citizens.”
“I do not come to play political games and I do not talk about ‘yes bibi no bibi’, it does not interest me,” she replied when asked why she decided to take part in the activities of a right-wing party. “I strongly believe in the party, values, vision, and Naftali Bennett for prime minister. The Likud, unfortunately, was no longer what it used to be, we need to replace Netanyahu. I connected with Bennett, he is a quality man of action, promotes people with disabilities and cares about them. My real home in politics. “
“Why not continue to influence from the outside?” Yaki Adamkar asked Pinto, who did not hesitate for a moment: “Those in the Knesset who talk about people with disabilities do not understand what they are saying, they do not come from there, throwing slogans to get votes a minute before elections. ‘It’s this thing? Where are the Knesset members? They do not understand what they are talking about, it is horrible and terrible. Whoever shouts more, gets more. This is a population that receives no reference, and a minute before the election everyone remembers. Until now, people with disabilities were seen as poor,’ “Let’s help them, you are exciting.” I finished with that, I came to cut off the perception of grace and misery, we did not come to shed a tear for anyone, we did not come to help us and we did not come to excite. We are part of Israel’s economy, society and society. ”
In an interview with Meretz chairman MK Nitzan Horowitz last night (Sat), which implied that he expressed support for the International Court of Justice’s statement in The Hague to open an investigation against Israel for war crimes, she said firmly: “I heard the things and was shocked. How he , As a public representative and as a citizen of the country, says such terrible things against the security of Israel and against the IDF soldiers who protect us every day. It just terrifies me to think that this is how soldiers are talked about, he is digging a pit inside the State of Israel. It shocked me. His statements are shocking and I personally expect him as a citizen of the State of Israel who loves the state to apologize unequivocally for this. It scared me. ”