Disclaimer: I support Eli Cohen for mayor of Bet Shemesh. I know little about Aliza Bloch, and have seen no reason to support her over Eli Cohen. I have nothing bad to say about her, and have no plans to try to discredit her. She has the right to run, even if I think her joining so late in the game is a bad idea.
Now that we are past the disclaimer:
There is an article in Mynet about how many/some activists, even specifically female activists, in the Bayit Yehudi local party are against the candidacy of Aliza Bloch. There are plenty of reasons why they think it is a bad idea, and I don't feel the need to get into it. That is their internal debate within Bayit Yehudi. There is just one point I want to comment on.
In the article an unnamed activist is quoted as saying that she thinks that Bayit Yehudi must have made a deal with Shas, and supporting Aliza Bloch is a way of giving Bet Shemesh to Shas.
I think that is ridiculous. As misguided as I think Bayit Yehudi is in their decision to run Aliza Bloch, I think claiming she is a trojan horse as a way of guaranteeing Bet Shemesh stay in Shas hands is ridiculous.
Shas and Bayit Yehudi have not been able to agree on anything. Many attempts at coming to deals and arrangements, since before the elections until today, have all failed. There is a lot of bad blood between the two parties by now. After all those failures to come to arrangements, suddenly they are able to make a crazy deal like this, in such a politically-complicated city, and do so in order to give away control of the city? In this theory, what did Bayit Yehudi get in return? It makes no sense to me. It sounds ridiculous.
That does not mean it can't be true, but it sounds to me to be too crazy to be true.
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