There is also a positive side to all the chaos: it is now clear that leadership and the place of the judicial system are the ones that will stand for voter judgment. • And also: Lieberman's power and torch.
The "group thinking" of blue-white tones in Gantz's case is not a point of strength, but a weakness of weakness. Ya'alon, Gantz, Torch and Ashkenazi on a tour of the Gaza border in August 2019
Photography:
Yehuda Peretz
How I stopped being afraid and learned to love the third round. The sky was getting darker, but the political weather was more transparent; I would not say more clearly, because the only optimism embodied in the statement of one of the 19th century Kissinger: the situation is serious but not serious.
Now it is clear that in the ballot box, voter jurisdiction will compete for two issues only, and the rest is public fraud: leadership and the place of the justice system.
The Benjamin Netanyahu Support Conference at the Prime Minister's Residence
The proposed leadership issue is important and crucial, because in the moment of truth, it is Iran and the arms of the enemies it controls. No Haredi recruiting and no transportation on Saturday. Neither state nor reconciliation in the people. And no minimum wage and public housing for housing.
On the subject of leadership, the answer is unequivocal: a successful prime minister, who has political skills that were not previously prime ministers and are a strategic force for the state, but has a bout of three unproven indictments. Facing him is a former chief of staff whose lack of leadership and lack of skills has already been proven in his military past, and they are well known to his party partners.
Benny Gantz's brief political stint also strengthened his sense of lack of leadership; But now the problem is more serious because the decision-making process set in the top of blue and white is a precursor. We know this because he has already caused trouble by refusing to establish a national unity government. "Cockpit" means "group thinking." Not only does it not strengthen the leadership of Party Gantz, but it is a multiplier. It is a lack of leadership that meets "group thinking" and the combination can lead to disaster.
Israel has already been there on various occasions before. The best-known is 1973. The elite has been misleading the public for years about what should have been taught in the bloody lesson of the Yom Kippur War. Talk about missing the peace between 1970 and 1973. But the real lesson is - that the State of Israel can pass within a day or two of a quiet and peaceful consciousness (the remembered slugger of the time: "What kind of peace and doing nothing / What kind of peace and another week"), a feeling of never-been-his-state- Better yet, the state of collapse of security perception and existential danger.
Two events have already occurred that clearly signal that Israel is on the verge of a major war. One, in the border incident that lasted several hours near spring on the northern border; And the second is the cruise missile and hovercraft attacks on Saudi oil. These events have penetrated the consciousness of the security leadership, but the psychosis of the broadcasts and headlines surrounding the party turnstile puts the public in a sealed room. The threats are not really absorbed.
Because reality is inconsiderate in resonance boxes and sealed rooms, the choice is between a legitimate and legitimate leader who has demonstrated clear superiority in all sectors of government, and well-controlled in the campaign against Iran, and an inexperienced security leader, with proven lack of leadership, subjected to a poor decision-making system.
There is no waiting
Avigdor Lieberman and Yair Lapid prove that the democratic method of "tongue-in-cheek" has gone out of proportion
For the 1973 image, the concept is added. This time it's "just not Bibi". This movement, for Netanyahu's personal disqualification, has been around for many years, perhaps even before he was first elected prime minister. But who is leading her today is Yair Lapid.
Lapid disqualifies Netanyahu without any legal and normative basis. He positions himself as the protector of the justice system vis-à-vis Netanyahu who is alleged to be fighting it, but in fact he is not fighting against the justice system but against the rule of law and the disruptive norms that overcame the law itself.
The charges against Netanyahu have not been proven. It is pointless to go into the description of the heavy campaign that was waged - to be a prime minister with three indictments. In order to prevent such a serious injury to the democratic order, the law was enacted under which a prime minister can serve until a final ruling. Immunity is legal and even essential, just to prevent the semi-paralysis state that the Israeli government is undergoing.
A prime minister who feels he is weak because of indictments filed against him, and has lost public support, and on the sidelines are waiting for alternative leaders the public expects, may prefer to resign. The fact that Mordechai Kremnitzer, some former Supreme Court justices and a group of political writers in the media think the stage of the indictment is like a verdict, does not mean that this is the right procedure and is not his fault.
Therefore, at the current stage of the third round, when it is agreed that the main disruptor was Avigdor Lieberman, should also mention Yair Lapid. It is impossible to maintain parliaments in a parliamentary system when there are two Libra tongues, and both deal with sabotage and disruption of the system.
A parliamentary regime has many weaknesses in Israel's social-security reality. But the most debilitating and negative factor in this method is the "tongue of the scales". The religious and the ultra-Orthodox used to be the scales. They relinquished this status, thus proving national responsibility. They should be able to build strong governments that have at least a consistent policy on the big issues.
Unexpectedly, the state, the liberals on their own, wanted to become a Libra. But Lieberman and Lapid's new invention is a tongue-in-cheek that only the tongue has left. In the past, the ugly role was utilized for a specific purpose and the Libra Party decided who would form the government. So they waited for Rabbi Shach's mouth and there was a wait. Lieberman has no wait. He gained political power that prevented the establishment of a government.
In anticipation of disaster
The fear of the left has been feeding Israeli history for decades, and never ends in catastrophe
Syria, to the extent of its rule, is ruled by the Alawite minority. They control everything that has to hold on to be the masters of state. And they strengthen themselves in alliances from all over. When everyone is bad, they don't pay a price.
In Israel, there is no basis for the fears of the left, but anyone who has a close and close conversation with the left and not barren debates in studios or social media also knows that there is great fear there. Along with some degree of idealism, fear is the authentic thing. Here and there you hear concern that Benjamin Netanyahu will bring disaster on the state.
This is irrational, of course. The source of these feelings is the same as what they felt in Britain throughout Margaret Thatcher's 11 years of rule. "The whole country seemed to have been in a state of fierce insanity with regard to Thatcher and Thatcherism," a recent biography criticized by Britain's biggest leader since Winston Churchill had recently extinguished his cigar.
The right has a serious and rational fear of the left. Because he was seen as boundless in his willingness to use every spare moment to realize his political and security delusions. See a minority government section that depends on the common Arabic list. And when the left fulfills its promises, it is always a cry for generations or at least for one generation.
But the interesting thing is that the fears of the left sometimes translate into an apocalyptic desire for destruction. A few years ago, a collective interview was published with Haaretz members of the Labor Party's "The Eighth". All kinds of Knesset members and young ministers who retired long ago and today are around the age of 70, plus. One of them explicitly said he hoped a major disaster would happen, some catastrophe that would only expose the right and wrongs, followed by the great disillusionment and the great majority to recognize the justification of the left's political path.
Gantz attacks Netanyahu: "We wanted unity - you wanted immunity" // Photo: Gil Kramer
Prof. Menachem Mautner, who in the field of law and social thought is one of our treasures, expresses the same apocalyptic desire for destruction in the political sphere. Of course, he does not wish this to happen, but in his book "They Are Possible - A Futuristic Middle-Eastern Story," he deploys his futuristic utopia on peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but on the way to it - Israel is forced to pass through a war of hell and blood and smoke. Do not despair of Hezbollah and Hamas missiles, after the catastrophe of thousands of dead in the home front, the road to peace opens.
Mautner does not believe that in conventional conventional politics, "the end of the occupation" can be reached. End of occupation - peace. These are the concepts. The speeches even heard by high-ranking officials in the various institutions about the "processes" leading to Nazism also belong to the world of apocalyptic fears. At the time, in the midst of the Second Intifada, there was a claim that it would be a disaster if Israel won the Intifada. Luckily this disaster happened, and the answer to my fears of the left is: Don't worry, there will be disaster again - and no catastrophe.
Don't get off the screen
Between "The Irish" and "Joker" - cinema presents a rare crop of quality films, which among other things build a new American story
For years, we have not remembered such a crop of great films in one year. Scorsese's "Irish", "There were times in Trentino's Hollywood," "Joker," "Ford vs. Ferrari," and in closing closed Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story" list with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. These two are the few actors who only want to see a movie.
Driver and Johansson in "Marriage Story"
There is a debate about whether the long "Irish" saga must be seen in a movie theater or it can be entertained in an armchair and seen on Netflix, on the television screen. Fortis's immortal line, "Get down, get off my TV screen!" No longer topical. Who wants Field Niro, Pacino and Joe Peschi off the screen?
There is a scholarly version that is better to see at home. In any case, "The Irish" is the kind of movie that brings back the cinematic experience of yesteryear. And as such, I guess in the past I wouldn't have imagined the possibility of settling into watching a movie so big. One of the reasons is that the film conveys a sense of chamber event rather than a broad melodrama.
For those who wondered for the last 45 years: El Pacino is a better actor than Niro, and this is revealed in this film. Pacino grew up as a character actor, as it was called at the time, and even when he was a star played as a sub-actor. De Niro was a star and when his glow was dim, he didn't have enough net playing ability to lean on.
This amount of quality films is only remembered in the great years of American cinema from the late 1960s to 1976. "Easy Rider," "Midnight Cowboy," "The Wild Bunch." Violence, competitiveness, old-fashioned masculinity. And there is a generational connection: Apart from Baumbach's film, the rest of these films look back, not necessarily in anger. It's an innocent look of nostalgia, which takes tweezers from the 60s or 70s of the last century and builds a new story from them.
"The Irish" refers to John F. Kennedy and his brother as a rival gang, perhaps a gang that was an ally and bank. Pacino as President of the Trucks Association Jimmy Hoffa runs back to his office building to re-raise the American flag to the mast, after it was dropped following the Kennedy assassination. "They murdered a president. What's it like for them to murder a union president?" Senior Mafia warns. It's a war that begins in World War II and continues on the streets of America, as if to protect the family home.
"Joker" is amazing by becoming a cinematic hit that grosses more than $ 1 billion, despite being a dark drama movie without all the superhero comics and science-fiction comics. This is thanks to the performance of one actor, Joaquin Phoenix. But it is also the only film from the current crop that I will not see for the second time.
