The judge will scoop the cards at Netanyahu's trial

Rivka Friedman-Feldman, who will head the composition that will discuss the prime minister's files, is not expected to make it easier if he learns from past experience. In addition to her position in Olmert's case, she led a hawkish line in Yitzhak Mordechai's sentence and demanded a daunting punishment for the public interest - with the support of the Mandelblit

The judge will scoop the cards at Netanyahu's trial

Less than three weeks before the third Knesset election in a year, the blue-and-white game tactic is simple and probably effective: to run every day as a minor campaign in itself, to record tiny achievements, or losses, to gain Likud advantage, and to sacrifice the states in favor of politics .

There is no point in reflective discussions about the nature of the bedding. It is also permissible to ignore the declarations of the composition of the next government, who are certainly outside and who may be inside. These are verbal notes that will be thrown in the bins next to the polling stations. Only the results, the power relations - and the legal disqualification of Benjamin Netanyahu will be determined as the motor defendant to head a new government.

Blue and White election campaigners are constantly striving to keep eye contact with their sole purpose - retaining the advantage in the polls, further success as the largest party, and halting Likud's efforts to establish a blocking bloc against Benny Gantz. For Netanyahu's opponents, the task is easier. They only need to maintain the block, which will include the Attorney General and the High Court on March 3.

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The block, March 3, will also include the Attorney General and the High Court. Gantz (Photo: Jonathan Zindel, Flash 90)

Benny Gantz at the Knesset Plenary, February 10, 2020 (Photo: Jonathan Zindel, Flash 90)

The expected argument in the case of a draw, that the decision is up to the voters and not the judges, will crumble in the face of the facts. Elections are necessarily conducted under the law. Violations of the law (including funding for elections, as was the case when the state comptroller filed a lawsuit against Ariel Sharon and his sons following the fight against Likud's leader Ehud Olmert), or incompetence in his terms, are being whipped by judges. This is how Donald Trump & Co. tried to disqualify Barack Obama, who was allegedly not born as a US citizen, and so it was judges who ruled that George W. Bush defeated El Gore in Florida and thus in all elections.

In order for the issue to come to the test and to decide at all, Netanyahu must gather enough votes for the majority in the Knesset. To that end, he initiates a constant series of stunts. They do not necessarily help him, because the transparent moves are far from convincing the skeptics, but compels a blue-and-white response - sticking to him as a shadow, except in criticizing the content of the moves, to not send Likud voters a disaster if their party does not choose this time, because Gantz is not Netanyahu's South Pole. In fact, it is in the same dialing area, without corruption.

When Netanyahu says "yes," Gantz refuses to say "no." Netanyahu (Photo: Haim Zach / GPO)

PM Netanyahu on Security Patrol at the Tunnel Checkpoint, February 6, 2020 (Photo: Haim Zach / UN, official website)

The Likud-led Likud was beaten in 1999, partly after the defection of its defense minister Yitzhak Mordechai to the Center Party. The same was the case in 2006, with Shaul Mofaz, in the role of his former patron Mordechai, in his embarrassing skipping ("House not leaving") for Kadima. In the current incarnation of parties leaning on Netanyahu's disappointed, the former defense minister is Boogie Ya'alon. In all cases, voters understand that the personal dimension determines. Most of the time this is the result of bitter precipitation from Netanyahu's attitude (with Mofaz - a profit and loss account, with a commitment to Sharon).

When Netanyahu says "yes," Gantz refuses to say "no." Even more so: He says "both." Same, similar content. The message is simple. The real Likudniks are not a Likud group, they are blue and white people. Their partnership with the government, in a partition plan with the Likud without Netanyahu, will not fulfill Netanyahu's warnings about the loss of right-wing rule. Not all government will lose, only half, and it will still be right.

The air from the balloon will come out within days. Trump (Photo: Reuters)

US President Donald Trump during his Washington speech following the February 6, 2020 Senate acquittal (Photo: Reuters)

Judge Rebecca Friedman-Feldman

When Trump was about to unveil his plan, in a timeframe designed to help Netanyahu, Gantz faced a choice or counterclaim. He chose to support and even claim for early information and influence. Netanyahu was still making the most of the credit, but Gantz had escaped being portrayed as a terrible enemy that is widely accepted by a large majority in the public. In his support, we have been stellar and cautionary notes to indicate whether he will form a government, but the subtleties of the reservations were less important than the general impression.

Within days, the air came out of Netanyahu's US balloon. In his eagerness for immediate profits, he was badly mistaken. In another state of calm and discretion, Netanyahu would reach out to his audience and seek to bolster his support so that he would emerge from the prime minister's election to annex territories east of the Green Line (and, of course, repress the proceeds by transferring territory west of the state to Palestine). But Netanyahu has no time. now or never. He was quick to announce annexation within days and was punished with a slap-ring from his Trump aides.

Insisting on sticking really, Netanyahu formed the government. Livni (Photo: Reuters)

Tzipi Livni convened a press conference announcing retirement from politics, February 18, 2018 (Photo: Reuters)

A senior in blue and white was asked this week why Gantz gave up on Netanyahu's disdain for posing a simple question: "Bibi, liar or fool?" - After all, it is clear that this is how Netanyahu would paint Gantz if the creators flipped. Netanyahu has met Trump twice in the course of the program's unveiling. He brags about copyright on her. When he talked about annexation even before the election, didn't he understand what Trump was saying to him, or did he and Sylph understand? Stupid or a liar?

A simple blue-and-white answer: prefer not to upset, not agitate, the same share of undecided Likud voters whether to quarantine themselves. They will not vote for Gantz, but may not vote at all. This, in the opinion of Gantz advisers, is more beneficial than a passing literal achievement that will spur indifference and arouse their dormant tendency to dismiss a "sickness" note.

The election, the pros argue, is a cruel version of truth or duty. In truth. There is only duty. Tzipi Livni insisted on sticking, despite all the pleas of her surroundings, more than any Ronnie Bar-On, to allow her people to dip their hands in the political mass and form a government for her, even at a slight crease in the integrity of her integrity. The result: Netanyahu, who lost her in public one-on-one, bypassed her in alliances with businessmen. Israel has had a bad and corrupt decade with Netanyahu. Who was right, white or bar-on?

Blue and white refuse to accept the equation "degree or purity". Want to win first and not worry about balancing the promises in the evening before and the disillusion the next morning. Will set the reality, forcing a bitter pill - dodging the February statements, to avoid fourth choices.

It is a bleak statement about Israel 2020, the political obligation to renounce the political and social truth, to settle into a position that allows it to be promoted; On the dependency of the Supreme Court, to nail down the obvious and prohibit the Knesset from entrusting a government with a defendant in a bribe; And on the expectation that in a month or two, when the Gantz government depends on the consent of the joint list, a council of secularists will be found to permit the mutual abstinence.

Judge Friedman-Feldman's black line

Justice Rivka Friedman-Feldman's Inauguration in the Netanyahu Case Predicts the Cards in the Famous Game, "Jerusalem vs. Tel Aviv" - The Forgive of the Beer vs. the Disenchanted, The Tendency to Relieve Corruption Laws in Jerusalem District (and Peace, where Avigdor Lieberman wins and Nathana Hanehana) ) And get worse in Tel Aviv District.

In addition to her position in Ehud Olmert's case, she is widely cited in the trial, which was eventually convicted by former defense minister and reserve champion Yitzhak Mordechai. Friedman-Feldman, in a minority opinion on the question of punishment - she supported four months in prison, and not just a suspended sentence - wrote that deterrence and retaliation considerations exaggerate the company's duty to those who served it.

"It should be borne in mind that precisely because the defendant was in a position to perform such positions while committing the offenses also lies the aggravating circumstances of the accused. It is precisely a person of such senior rank, which should be an example of his subordinates, in which case the example given by the accused is worst and the message conveyed most difficult. Because the risk the defendant took, committing the offenses while he was of the highest rank, is a risk that this height will fall, if he is caught.

Friedman-Feldman emphasized in a black line the following words: "The higher the role, the higher the fall." Further, although somewhat exaggerated about the irreversibility, as Arie Deri's response to the government suggests: The defendant can be said to have "destroyed his life, his entire life, crashed, and the exceptional publicity given to the case caused him irreparable harm, and in fact his life never This defendant no longer needs punishment as a deterrent, on the other hand, he held senior public positions, and in this regard it is of great importance for the message to come out of this sentencing regarding proper behavior of public figures, as an educator and as a deterrent to others. In this case, it overcomes the defendant's personal circumstances and dictates significant punishment. "

Avichai Mandelblit, then the Chief Military Advocate, shared Justice Friedman-Feldman's opinion. This is also a reason to expect him to stand now with President Esther Hayim, regardless of Gantz and the party leaders to the left of white and blue, at the head of the bloc that will block Netanyahu.