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After whipping Netanyahu, Bennett kept the whip for the bloc of change - Walla! news

2021-04-23T10:24:15.428Z


While wording calmly and making the prime minister look like a torn nerve tubercle, the right-wing chairman sharply and clearly explained his position. He did not remove from the agenda the direct election initiative if the change government is not formed, and will even consider voting in favor of abolishing Netanyahu and Gantz's privacy. The full column - this morning in Maariv


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After whipping Netanyahu, Bennett kept the whip for the change bloc

While wording calmly and making the prime minister look like a torn nerve tubercle, the right-wing chairman sharply and clearly explained his position.

He did not remove from the agenda the direct election initiative if the change government is not formed, and will even consider voting in favor of abolishing Netanyahu and Gantz's privacy.

The full column - this morning in Maariv

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In the video: Statement by the right-wing chairman, Naftali Bennett (Photo: Knesset Channel)

Of all Netanyahu's problems, Bennett's tone in his statement from Wednesday is the most worrying. Bennett seems to have matured almost at once. The head boy learned to take off his head. He was polite, restrained and calm. He said things simply. Of the two, Netanyahu is the one who looks like a torn tubercle, a pressure cooker that threatens to explode at any moment. Bennett has already jumped into the water. He did not cross the river. He's wading in it now and quite enjoying it. The water is pleasant. Right now, he's getting away from the vortices.



Here is Bennett's position, in my own words: he met the prime minister five times after the election.

Told him explicitly: If you bring a government, I am with you.

Full-full.

Demanded rotation, and received.

One year, the fourth.

Bennett did not build anything on this rotation.

It was agreed between him and Netanyahu as a kind of joke.

This is one of Netanyahu's tragedies: his word has become a joke.

Until recently the joke was at our expense.

Meanwhile the critical mass has accumulated.

The joke went sideways and is now at Netanyahu's expense.

There is not a single living person in the Western or Eastern Hemisphere (other than Shimon Riklin) who believes in one word that comes out of his mouth.

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Bennett (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)

Bennett continued: "Do not make an effort on me," he told Netanyahu, "invest in Smutrich. I am not your problem. He is." Instead, he sees the effort Bibi is putting into it. Only in him. Almost like back then, in the merry days of Walla, when Bennett snatched slander on a daily basis. The sense of humor of history, which will schedule the testimony of Ilan Yeshua about these events this week, is noteworthy. In his speech on Wednesday, Bennett said measured things. Either Netanyahu will form a government, or he, Bennett, will form a unity government with Yair Lapid and all the others. And if that does not happen? So we'll go to a fifth election, Bennett said, "in one form or another."



The format is the threat. Bennett does not remove from the agenda the possibility that he will decide to support Netanyahu's direct election initiative if the change government is not formed. Moreover, in such a case, he will also consider voting in favor of abolishing the privacy of Netanyahu and Gantz, until an elected government is formed in Israel. This is currently Bennett's only whip on the transformation bloc. If Netanyahu fails to form a government, Bennett will weaken at once, like Cinderella after midnight. So he's trying to close interest right now. The advantage: he knows that if he closes with Lapid, Lieberman and Saar, this closure will be iron.



Bennett speaks sharply and clearly.

Saar backs him up.

It is not inconceivable that both will set up a technical block.

Bennett clarifies in the negotiations that if there are no agreements soon, then there will be none at all. He has no intention of reaching the grinder of the right, where throughout the negotiations he will be slaughtered on an hourly basis.

He wants to inform the president in two weeks, on his behalf and on behalf of Yair Lapid, that "we have succeeded in forming a government."

Yes Yes.

No, so no.

The debate over who will be given the mandate to form a government is, for him, an idle debate.

The government must be formed before the mandate is formed.

Bundle of nerves.

Netanyahu (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

Bennett's preliminary demand to have an excess voice in the cabinet and in the privacy mechanism was shelved.

He is now talking about simple pretentiousness.

The division of cabinet ministers will be 5-5, the government will have a parity mechanism.

The rock of controversy, the core of the difficulty, is the number of government ministers.

Lapid, backed by Lieberman, wants a lean government.

20 ministers.

Max 21. This will give Bennett two, maybe three ministers.

This will give the storm two ministers.

Zeev Elkin and Yoaz Handel outside.

This, according to Bennett and Saar, is a recipe for failure.



"There is no prime minister who can function and run a government with five ministers," a senior official in the Bennett-Saar bloc told me yesterday. "There is no such animal. The right will attack us in the Knesset every Wednesday.

A technical block with Bennett?

Saar (Photo: Flash 90, Olbia Fitoussi)

Who's right?

There is no question of justice here.

The question is the same old question that Arik Sharon was asked at the time: What do you want, enjoy or win?

Or: On the road do not be right, be smart.

Yair Lapid managed to reduce Netanyahu in 2013 to 21 ministers.

He received a quarter of an hour of applause, and columnists complimented him on Friday.

And in the end, what did he get out of it?

In order for a prime minister to function, for a government to be stable, in a reality where the coalition contains three different blocs (right-wing bloc: Bennett plus Saar. Central bloc: Lapid, Lieberman and Gantz. Left-wing bloc: Labor plus Meretz), business needs to be more padded and fertile.

A lean government in such a reality is a recipe for bundled troubles.

"Bennett needs to think about how he survives the second month, not the first month of his tenure," whoever told me told me.

I think there is a point in his words.



The full column - today in Maariv

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