On video: Ministers Ben Gabir, Vassalof and Krei dance with the crowd at the settlement conference in Gaza tonight 01.28.24/without
US President Joe Biden this week launched a financial tomahawk missile at Bibi that shook the settler coalition. Biden focused on the base of the Smotrich couple and Ben Gabir when he added illegal settlers to the sanctions list.
The move hurt the ego of Ben Gabir and Smotrich much more than the pocket, Because to this day, Netanyahu has accustomed the two to the fact that every possible whim will be met with yes. When it comes to the Americans, it's another story. The Minister of Finance and the Minister of Internal Security bought into the attack honestly, but for a moment we must not forget that the responsibility lies with Netanyahu.
For those who have forgotten the iconic interview he gave to Yonit Levy about two years ago, Let's recall that during that time Netanyahu denied with characteristic resoluteness the possibility of Itamar Ben Gabir being a minister in his government. However, since then the political circumstances have changed and Netanyahu justified the appointment of Ben Gabir by saying that he changed. It's
just a shame that he changed for the worse. By the way, Netanyahu did not change: he promised but did not promise to fulfill. The pressure of Ben Gabir and Smotrich towards Netanyahu is somehow tolerable as long as it is our internal problem. The budgets of the settlements and the police hurt us but it's not bad - we will overcome.
The problem starts when the two start biting the American hand that feeds us. It has been about a year since Smotrich's grandmaster speech in the USA His delusional claim against President Biden that Israel is not a banana republic.
By the way, in practice, Netanyahu has turned us into a banana republic of the Latz couple.
Biden between Smotrich and Ben Gavir.
The American president is fed up/image processing, Reuters, Haim Goldberg/Flash 90
With Ben Gvir, the situation is much more complicated.
He has not set foot in the US and he sends the messages indirectly. It is still unclear who arranged for him to interview the Wall Street Journal and in what language it was conducted. What is certain is that due to his broken English he has fierce competition with Mr. Grandmeiser.
In the interview, Ben Gabir said that the Biden administration Hurts Israel's war effort and that he believes "that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will give Israel a free hand to eliminate Hamas.
Instead of Biden giving us full backing, he is busy with humanitarian aid.
With Trump, the behavior will be different." It
is still not clear what Ben Gabir has against the Americans. He works 24/7 for the base and statements against the Americans do not connect to his base. I would not be surprised if the Minister of National Security was acting on the behalf of a senior official who tried to smear the president who is the friendliest we've ever experienced.
And if all this isn't enough, there's the approval of a $14.1 billion aid package to finance security and war needs. Throwing insults at the American president borders on good spoons, spitting in the face, and level 10 stupidity on the Ben Gvir scale.
The statement Banana Republic repeated itself around Netanyahu when he denied the US Secretary of State the opportunity to meet privately with the Chief of Staff.
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Claim that Ben Gavir changed/image processing, Yonatan Zindel/Flash 90
But the Americans are not suckers and Biden made a school of diplomacy in response to Bibi.
Saudi Arabia this week suddenly hardened its positions in the conflict and claimed that there will be no peace with Israel until there is no Palestinian state and no withdrawal from the borders of Gaza.
The Saudi tone and the hands are the hands of the Americans pulling the strings.
And there is also the matter of economic sanctions.
Bank Leumi, facing problems with the Americans in money laundering cases, was the first among the banks to close a settler's account.
This infuriated Smotrich, who appealed to the bank supervisor to stop the move.
After him came the Postal Bank and in response to the blocking of the accounts, its management received a barrage of insults from Communications Minister Shlomo Karai.
But nothing will help the delirious bunch.
The American president who has absorbed the goodness of the millennium, will continue to act in the method of going with and feeling without.
On the one hand he will caress Israel because what are we guilty of and on the other hand he will beat Netanyahu and his emissaries behind the scenes and diplomatically.
Blocking the settlers' accounts is only a first step.
The peace with the Saudis is the second most likely that the phone calls between him and Netanyahu will become rare and you can forget about visits to the White House.
The repertoire of sanctions later is varied as only the Americans know.
The more Netanyahu Smotrich continues to claim that Israel is not a banana republic, the more and more we will be convinced that this is the case.
until proven otherwise.
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