In contrast to past exercises designed to weaken the right to seize power, this time there are no ambitions to create a center-left bloc • Just bring down Netanyahu, and then we will get along
Another exercise, followed by a disaster that is difficult to predict.
Activists of "New Hope" on an election tour of Ashdod
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Liron Moldovan
In contrast to past exercises designed to weaken the right to seize power, this time there are no ambitions to create a left-center-security bloc. Just take down Netanyahu, and then we'll get along
For national right-wing voters this should have been clear long ago.
They are frightened that splitting the camp, and especially Gideon Saar's exercise, as a "new hope" of the left, will enthrone Yair Lapid, so they must return home - to the Likud.
But the simple explanation for the great return home, which the Likud is hoping for, requires only an easy memory to evoke: every time they did an exercise for the Likud and managed to split it, no less than a disaster occurred.
Many on the right mention 1992 and then 1999, when the right to the Likud became the focus of attacks against the Likud and its leaders, holding on to ideological purity that even Yitzhak Shamir, considered the most rigid ideologue in the country's history, did not live up to expectations.
But in '99 something else happened.
The right has not just split, but is emerging.
Shas, which is not in its favor, won a huge electoral achievement of 17 seats that came at the expense of the Likud remaining with only 19. In addition, the first exercise was launched in the "Center Party", which according to theory was supposed to connect the left, Labor, and pragmatists and liberals "Likud. according to Eyal Arad, this was the first run of the idea of" forward. "the Center Party with Meridor, Mordechai Lipkin-Shahak and friends won six seats. it seems to be a failure of public speaking, but it essentially eliminated the right-wing bloc.
rise Ehud Barak in '99 Accelerated the political negotiations with the concession in Jerusalem and then the far-reaching concessions in Taba; all after the hasty withdrawal from the security zone (a failed execution by Ashkenazi and Gantz), which weakened Israel and ordered the second intifada. Arik Sharon was the drug, and in 2003 he registered A huge victory for the Likud. Again, the sequel is known. The
question is what preceded what - the disengagement to invent "Kadima" or the establishment of "Kadima" for the invention of disengagement. The formation could be seen when Sharon had two coalitions - the second was unofficial, with Labor, Kadima actually broke the right, with the Likud receiving only 12 seats in the 2006 elections, led by Netanyahu.
Netanyahu united the right around him and brought the Likud back to a level of 27 seats in 2009, enabled the formation of a center-right government with the work led by Barak as the left leg.
Since then, the Americans, the Obama administration and the Israeli left have discovered that the Israeli government led by Netanyahu is a hard nut to crack.
It created a strong international and intra-American opposition to the pro-Palestinian policy and the detent policy with Iran, which was expressed in the nuclear agreement.
At this point, the "Rak-La-Bibi" strategy began to develop, first by recruiting the top security officials in the form of Dagan, Diskin, Ashkenazi, Ganz and retired officials;
And the new invention, "New Hope" by Gideon Saar.
This is another attempt in the chain of exercises of the last 22 years to weaken and split the right and its end like the previous exercises: some disaster, which is still difficult to predict.
The big difference this time is that the establishment of the Democratic Party and the Israeli left have given up the creation of a left-center-security bloc that will pass votes from the right.
This time the hope is only to bring down the right-wing leader, Netanyahu, and then we will get along.
The unprecedented phenomenon is that two light boats have been unloaded from the large ship of the national camp in Israel, and they are participating in the Nori Fire Orchestra by the left, the media, retired senior security officials, and the recruited prosecutorial establishment.
Since no divisive exercise against the right has brought salvation to the people of Israel in the last 25 years, but quite the opposite - it always ends in a historic security catastrophe - the Likud only needs to press the appropriate triggers of its voters.
The left for its part, with its well-known tools, will try to obscure as much as possible the existential essence behind all the viruses, indictments, vaccines and bruises that Gantz imposes on government policy.
The non-bibi, which was the last exercise before Gideon Saar's exercise, caused an unforeseen catastrophe: a blue-and-white exercise — like the blue-and-white alert following which the Yom Kippur War took place — resulted in the inability to form a functioning government.
It caused severe moral damage, but miraculously Prime Minister Netanyahu managed to lead a relatively effective fight against the plague, end the Israeli-Arab conflict, and conduct a successful campaign against Iran.
Evil spirit
It is impossible to detach the prime minister's files from the melody that has been heard for 25 years, even by high culture people. When the statements take a violent direction, it is that the feeling is that
character assassination
is allowed
has become the main tool against the right in Netanyahu's era. In an article for the Labor Party, "to start treating Sarah Netanyahu." This year, too, he was revealed as a prophet, when he wrote in Haaretz that "Gideon Saar has nothing to look for in the Likud." It was December 6, and two days later Saar announced his retirement and founding his party.
At the outset attack the character assassination against Netanyahu intended to create a firewall to deter and prevent voters left to switch to the Likud. gradually strategy intended to splits on the right. first they were prominent figures, have been stripped of Likud or religious Zionists, who collaborated with the strategy of propaganda personally against Netanyahu.
the uniqueness of the journey murder The character against Netanyahu for the past 25 years is that intellectuals also participated in it with the joy of sadism, which Amos Oz wallowed in. And here the latest revelations about him connect, contrary to Yair Sheleg's opinion, for example.
In the 2015 election campaign, Oz appeared at a Meretz convention in Hod Hasharon That at the age of 12 he kicked a two- or three-year-old boy,
Who came with his father, the professor, to the house of Prof. Klausner in Jerusalem.
Oz said that to this day he feels guilty because one of the two, "either I kicked too hard and then everything is my fault; or I kicked too weak ... and that's my fault too."
And that boy was Bibi.
The crowd cheered and applauded.
An early description of the incident appears in "A Tale of Love and Darkness": "(In one of Netanyahu's children) I kicked when I was about a bar mitzvah, in full swing, because he would crawl under the table and let go of my shoelaces ... To this day I do not know if I kicked the hero's brother Or the nimble brother. "
It is clear that a great writer like Oz would not have allowed himself to speak in such bestiality if he had not felt allowed to do so.
In the eyes of the venomous pump, Netanyahu has lost his humanity and dignity, and a man like Oz can descend into the most humble abyss in public and emerge from it in peace.
Two intellectuals from the same environment defined the psychology that has since become a dance of stray dogs.
The author Yitzhak Ben-Ner said in an article in the Tel Aviv newspaper from 1998, entitled "Academia under siege": "In my imagination I see his entire path as prime minister as a conspiratorial, malicious, Machiavellian, evil, planned, takeover of the people of Israel and the State of Israel."
Amnon Dankner, who also had an anti-Mizrahi record, marked the target because he feared, after the rise of Barak in May 1999, that Bibi would return: "We should signal that we will not forget, if it really happens in the future that Bibi returns to our public life, because what destroyed it "His party, his government and almost the entire country ... was the character," he wrote in Maariv (May 28, 1999).
"And the character, alas, is not something that may change after years of cooling and after a certain maturation. At Netanyahu's age, character is already a permanent phenomenon, and since he will accompany him in his additional experience - if there is one - surely many will ask themselves whether The feeling of managing state affairs. "
When this raw tyranny presses for 25 years, the decision is finally made to open cases against the prime minister.
But Oz was also sensitive to the possibility of a violent flare-up, as a result of the flames rising.
About two years before his death he wanted to meet with me.
The apparent reason was that I was among the few who wrote a good review of "The Gospel According to Judah."
And was also a political target.
At that time, do not know why, lunatics from the far right once again came to the very doorstep of the writer;
Also, unknown individuals also arrived at Zehava Galon's car.
Maybe there were more incidents and Galon for some reason didn't care.
Oz then created in me a sense of duty to write and warn against an outbreak that might happen unexpectedly.
And this is what I did over the pages of Makor Rishon.
Today I hear signals from the Balfour and Haganziada protesters, as they call their demonstrations against the defense minister in front of his house in Rosh HaAyin.
The warning is again, lower the flames.
Historian Shoshana Berry says we are in the midst of the longest election campaign ... from 1933 to the present.
The idea that the polls create a kind of regulation of the occupied civil war is wrong.
In this regard, President Ephraim Katzir was right when he said, "We are all guilty."
The right of Balfour people to demonstrate, even if the purpose and path are illegitimate;
And this without being exposed to disgrace and insults and blowing sticks and attempts to burn tents.
This week was the anniversary of the assassination of Israel Kasztner (March 4-3, 1957).
Yes, there was incitement in the "media" of the time.
And for a long time the fashion has been to look for a conspiracy theory behind the assassin Zeev Eckstein and his accomplices.
In fact, the cause of the murder is the verdict of Judge Benjamin Halevi.
The one who understood this was the super-commentator of Haaretz at the time, Moshe Keren.
He published a series of articles following the ruling, which came out later in the book.
He died unexpectedly shortly afterwards.
"This Jew is accused by a judge in Israel of 'indirect murder' - no one knows how many of his people - that he played a double game all the time and became an accomplice to the murderers and their friend ... The State of Israel is not what it was before the verdict," Keren wrote.
The final seal of "sold his soul to the devil" took on a clear meaning: a death sentence on Kasztner.
This is what Moshe Keren hinted at regarding the ruling as a whole.
At the time, I asked one of those involved, Yaakov Heruti, who had stuck Eckstein in the head that Kasztner should be murdered.
He said no one should have told him that, it went into his head after the verdict.
Here one has to stop and make a distinction between a "persecuting law" that a rabbi rules in the darkness of his rooms, when some take it seriously and some do not consider it, and things a district court rules.
The authority is different, much heavier, even if an appeal has been lodged with the Supreme Court.
Even if the defendant at trial was not Kasztner at all but Malkiel Greenwald.
Reaching out and slapping the cheek
The US administration's expected conciliation with Iran could be overturned on Israel and its Arab partners.
And it is worth recalling what Stalin said about Hitler, and how it ended and
here is another reminder that the predictions are written on the wall and should not be read between the lines.
Even more than might be expected, sworn-in President Biden is acting on his party’s platform clauses, striving for a kind of warm-blooded blindness to contact with the Iranians.
Strongly and elegantly return to the original 2015 nuclear deal.
We need to return to the original policy of conciliation, not of Chamberlain but of Joseph Stalin.
The dictator wrote in Izvestia (October 1939) that the war "for the elimination of Hitlerism" was unacceptable.
"Every person is free to defend or condemn one ideology or another ... but it is illogical and foolish to destroy people because you do not like certain opinions or their views."
"He warned the West against opposition to Nazi Germany," Steven Kotkin writes in his biography of Stalin.
"Hitlerism can be respected or despised ... it's a matter of taste," Stalin wrote.
Who did the communist dictator despise, whose soldiers guarded Ribbentrop who included a salute with a Nazi hand?
The capitalist, imperialist, reviled colonial Britain.
Unpleasant, but the American conciliation from the Biden administration's seminary is reminiscent of a gloomy period.
"Reconciliation" is a natural thing - provided it achieves a real result.
But it becomes blatantly immoral when it is sewn into coarse threads at the expense of a third country that is supposed to pay the price, ie Israel and also its Arab partners.
