With a public distrust that is increasing at an exponential rate, delays in presenting the aid program and criticism coming from surprising directions, the prime minister knows that the price for his conduct may also be political and for Gantz? He, meanwhile, shrugs off the coma in which interpretation has sunk
Throughout his reign, Benjamin Netanyahu did not encounter the power restrictions as he faced them this week. The Corona is naming its status. Benny Gantz starts to seize confidence and tails him at every opportunity. Now the right has joined the celebration as well. And if that is not enough, his loyal partners in the ultra-Orthodox factions are beginning to lose patience with him.
PM Netanyahu Introduces Economic Assistance Program // Photo: GPO
Tomorrow (Sunday) Netanyahu is scheduled to present his government's economic plan, after he planned to do so on Wednesday. The growing distrust of the public and headed by the government should have caused Netanyahu to insist on presenting the plan at a promised time and not reject it even one day. It did not happen.
As well as many other moves that should have taken place as part of the national effort in the Corona war and were not realized. Israel has turned from light to Gentiles into darkness for the nation. A few months ago, Israel was renamed in the news releases worldwide as an example of exemplary conduct in the fight against the virus, while today it is mainly mentioned in the studio talks dealing with the colossal mistakes that must not be repeated on the path to the recurrence of the disease.
The results of the failed conduct may (or may) be politically decisive. Dismantling the government and going to the elections now seem like a growing dream. An unfulfilled soul for the foreseeable future. So much so that the trend was reversed that if by this week Netanyahu was perceived as being able to threaten Gantz, the one who actually threatened to disassemble the package and go to the polls will have Gantz on Netanyahu.
The noticeable change in the behavior of a blue-and-white chairman against the prime minister and his other political rivals began with recent changes in the hive. As in a military campaign, Gantz seems to be preparing himself for the two scenarios: entering the prime minister's office a year and three months, or another election campaign before. Han, one of the founders of the future and the son of the mythological Knesset Secretary Aryeh Han, is taking a senior position in the top echelon of the replacement prime minister.
He is the one who brought Brit Peretz, the new communications manager at the Gantz Bureau, whom he met at the office of Shai Piron, where they both worked. Han is also holding the "Religious Zionist Portfolio" in the party, and as such may even be armored in the next Knesset list to pull 3-2 seats from this public.
While the two are working on changing Gantz's image and media behavior (they are expected to accompany him in the event of the election as well), CEO Hod Betzer continues to prepare for entry into the PM's office, if and when, and to find candidates for senior positions such as the head of the NSC, ambassador to Washington And other appointments, an Israeli spring, designated as head of the faculty, also remains a key figure in the Gantz bureau, and ministers Haili Trooper and Asaf Zamir have also become secret partners and an integral part of the hive.
The change Gantz undergoes is attributed to the new team that surrounds him. More experienced and polished than its predecessor. They were the ones who explained to him that "Sons" did not work in the political system. That if the opponents attack - her hair must be returned. Who, despite fears of being dropped into the single-digit area in the polls, should he show weakness in the matter, will find himself in the role of the Knesset pins of the Knesset members on the right and left who will not let go until they are completely over. As in Gaza, there was no immediate response, they were told.
Power games
When Netanyahu appointed Yossi Cohen for another term as head of the Mossad without his approval as required by the coalition agreement, Gantz's tendency was to sidestep and move on. Brit Peretz and Ofer Han insisted that this was an event that could not go unanswered. After winning this week's vote on the Anti-Judicial Inquiry Committee, he did not settle for victory and embarked on a direct offensive against the Likud, to add to the general celebration, the introduction of a finger in Netanyahu's eye as well.
Peretz, who led the offensive line, wrote in the media consultants' Wetsap group in Cherry Blue and White chambers: "Get everyone ahead," meaning the attack. However, the directive accidentally landed in the reporters group surveying the party and was immediately deleted. Not only against the Likud and Netanyahu, but also against the opponents on the left, who have constantly attacked him since joining Netanyahu, Gantz began to strike.
Every Yair Lapid Twitter tweet against Gantz gets a quick response from the "Blue and White Party" helper who ruthlessly attacks him. In recent days, the "Blue and White Party" has been biting Torch for not having a high school diploma, for having been a failed treasury minister and more.
Finance Minister Katz: The upcoming budget will not include a tax hike // Photo: June Rickner
So, when Netanyahu realized that the election threat was becoming a two-sided weapon in which he and Gantz were equally, he decided that he was not going to dismantle the government on the investigative committee initiated by Bezalel Smutrich. At first he thought to object. Every week, the coalition rejects dozens of bills, some good and important, of the opposition. The vast majority do not reach the headlines. But Smutrich's commission of inquiry quickly climbed to the head of the news. Netanyahu realized that opposing the flag he hoisted so high would lower him to ask for bottoms in the eyes of his constituents.
Gantz threatened the election and delivered firm messages that had not yet been heard from his surroundings. The ministers of his party, especially Justice Minister Nissenkorn, began to directly attack the Likud, which has not happened since the government was formed. It was a net muscle demonstration. Like any sane citizen, Gantz and Nissencorn do not really intend to defend judges who are at odds. They, too, know that this is not about maintaining democracy but creating chaos. But the lesson they wanted to teach Netanyahu was stronger.
PM Sharon sent Mickey Zohar to try to engineer a special parliamentary pharmacy, which will allow the Likud freedom of vote for its members - which would present the ruling party as supportive during, and on the contrary, persuade the ultra-Orthodox factions to oppose, ensuring that there would be no majority anyway. Later, when Netanyahu decided to turn the Likud vote to support it, and to ensure that there would be no majority through the absence of many Knesset members, the ultra-Orthodox party leaders blamed hard things for it.
At a Netanyahu Square telephone conference, Mickey Zohar, Aryeh Deri and Moshe Gaffney, Deri shouted at Netanyahu that his conduct would lead to elections and abandoned the conversation furiously. At the same time, right-wingers put up a banner campaign on the ultra-Orthodox news sites, calling on the ultra-Orthodox MKs not to escape the will of their voters, which made Shas and the Torah Judaism with no choice to support the vote.
Between propaganda and regulations
On August 24, 100 days will be filled for the establishment of the government. By law, if a budget is not approved by this time, the Knesset is automatically dispersed. In order to prevent elections, Likud and Blue will have to reach an agreement as soon as possible and pass a law rejecting the deadline for another month. Therefore, despite the clashes and taunts - about sovereignty, court status and more - Netanyahu and Gantz will cooperate and avoid close elections where both will pay the price.
The Prime Minister paid for the first time this week the price of staying right in the opposition. The vote caught him off guard. It ended in failure. In his conduct, he managed to deepen the conflict with white and blue and increase the frustration of right-wing voters who see Likud again running away when the issue of court status comes to its door.
Because, to Netanyahu's heart, the need to maintain the status of the justice system and to define its authority has become one of the main issues of the right in recent years, not least thanks to his trial that intensified the matter. Netanyahu himself, who during his reign actually sought to weaken the status of the Knesset and the government vis-à-vis the judges, enjoyed a wave of criticism on their right, against the State Prosecutor's Office and the USSR, which corresponded directly with his central public defender, which states that he is not only prosecuted but the entire right.
With all the right-wing elements in the coalition, Netanyahu could regulate the criticism of judges and enforcement officials. But what's good about the campaign isn't always good for the rulebook. Even the hashtag that starred at one moment of the election campaign on its official pages - # to investigate_the_investigators - could not think it to go down to practical steps of establishing a parliamentary inquiry committee in the Knesset. Criticism over the podiums and in front of an enthusiastic audience - yes. Laws and regulations that will fix things - not really.
But the reality this time is different. When he dismantled the right block and left his right outside, he had to take into account that the mischief that Smutrich, Bennett and their friends were doing would be far more embarrassing and painful than the opposition from Yair Lapid's left and the joint list. Smutrich knows how to touch the soft belly of right-wing and Likud voters. Torch won't learn to do that in thirty years.
The truth is, although from the first moment it was a political tool for all parties involved, there was no more justified and much-needed decision than the establishment of the Knesset Investigation Committee against the judges' conflicts of interest. Justice Minister Nissenkorn's speech, crying over the lacuna of Israeli democracy because of the proposal, sounds mostly like a parody of leftist propaganda in recent years. Protecting the court is one matter. Protecting judges that there are those who believe they did not follow the law, is another matter.
Only right at the beginning. The proposal that fell this week was the first, not the last. Bennett, Shaked and Smutrich, it seems, are just warming up on the lines. Each week, Bennett is strengthened with a mandate in the polls. And the Likud, respectively, is declining. With this trend, Netanyahu is facing another challenge next week in the Knesset - selecting representatives of the Judiciary Committee. After what happened this week, the candidacy of his representatives, Zvika Hauser and Ethie Attia, and not for example Ayelet Shaked, is really not guaranteed.
And on the fringes - this week's vote sharpened, once again, Avigdor Lieberman's new natural position and his faction Israel Beitano in Israeli politics. As part of his revenge campaign in Netanyahu, the immortal campaigner "Without Loyalty No Citizenship" formed a bloody alliance with the joint list, Ayman Odeh, Ahmed Tibi and Hiba Yazbak, Yair Lapid and Meretz, and became an integral part of them. This week, the Knesset acted as one man with one heart. Lieberman was once again found to be the biggest fraud of Israeli politics. In 2009 he fought to bring a reformist justice minister to the system. A decade and a half later, he has already aligned himself with the most devastating and devastating High Court trustees.
Arden will explain to the world
The one who has been anxiously following, not to mention, the recent crises, is Ophir Akunis, who could finally get his breath this week when he was appointed minister in the government - the minister for regional cooperation. Gilad Arden sought to postpone his appointment as UN ambassador this month and Akunis agreed, which only heightened the tension that something would go wrong.
Arden's appointment as UN ambassador may have been born in Netanyahu's head as a working arrangement designed to clear a standard around the government's desk, but he is also in the line. Already in his first speech as a government minister, a decade ago, Arden dedicated things to owning his country to his country by virtue of the Bible, Citing the renowned Bible commentary Rashi, which explains how the nations of the world claiming that Jews have plundered the land from peoples sitting before them must be replied to. These ridiculous claims have become the bedrock of the United Nations organization, and the truth must be plagued by its members every day In his day.