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Registered in his name: Netanyahu is the sole architect of the failure to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb
Iran is closer than ever to a bomb, the military option is obsolete and we are completely dependent on the US. .
The full column - today in Maariv
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Ben Mercury
Friday, 16 July 2021, 11:30 Updated: 11:31
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The moment when MK Uriel Bosso (Shas) tweeted the headline of Yedioth Ahronoth on one of this week's critics was amusing to tears, ridiculous to the point of horror and reflects better than anything else what we have had here in the last decade.
Bosso, a (really) hard-working parliamentarian, filmed this outrageous headline: "The chance of recovering from cancer is lower in the periphery."
Above the title, he added his scholarly interpretation: "The Tel Aviv-Raanana government."
And quite wise.
A few minutes later, the quick tweet erased the tweet and faded away with it in the midday darkness (A. Kishon).
I guess Shaman Dahu (probably the parliamentary assistant) approached him, put a heavy hand on his shoulder and said to him "Uriel, this is ours".
Want to say: This horrific reality, in which the chance of recovering from cancer in the periphery is lower than in the center and life expectancy in the periphery is lower in quite a few years than life expectancy in the center of the country, is the result of prolonged neglect, more than a decade.
Even my uncle Amsalem would not be able to blame these horrible statistics for a government formed a month ago.
This is not the Tel Aviv-Raanana government, but the Safsufa-Caesarea government.
An amusing moment to tears and ridiculous to horror.
MK Bosso (Photo: official website, Adina Welman, Knesset Spokeswoman)
The truth is simple: this situation was created by the Likud governments, which have ruled here for almost the entire 40 years.
They did not lift a finger to change it.
They immortalized him.
And not just the Likud.
Aryeh Deri's Shas was there, all the way through. Instead of serving its public, Shas served the Netanyahu family and became a surplus of bibism.
Complete self-denial, education for continued ignorance and poverty and a handful of claims after two and a half weeks in opposition.
Thanks, Deri.
A nuclear bomb does not stop at speech, but at deeds.
Netanyahu at UN General Assembly, 2012 (Photo: Reuters)
To Tommy I thought this awful tweet set the climax of the week, but then another day passed and the founding article of the opposition leader and irresponsible editor of Israel Today, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared, smeared all over the hair of the bible for the glory of the State of Israel. "Iran is galloping." The appropriate response to this article is simply to explode with laughter, but I suddenly remembered that the Iranian bomb, closer than ever before, could explode even earlier. This time, too, everything is registered in Netanyahu's name. The only architect of our diligent failure vis-à-vis Iran is the navigator who led us to the impasse from which Bennett and Lapid are now trying to find a way out.
To the knowledge of the bibists, a nuclear bomb or a nuclear project does not stop at speech, but at deeds.
Two leaders have done this in the past: Menachem Begin, who destroyed the Iraqi reactor built by Saddam Hussein in 1981, and Ehud Olmert, who destroyed a Syrian nuclear nuclear reactor built in Bashar al-Assad in 2007.
Netanyahu?
He mostly spoke, warned, warned, threatened, spoke, barbarian, ran around the world, pulled out Bristols and sonic light performances and after a dozen years of extensive activity of this kind - bequeathed to his successors Iran, on the verge of becoming a nuclear threshold state.
The oracle from Jerusalem
It is possible that his involvement at the beginning of the previous decade, when he hesitated, hesitated, and eventually avoided landing a military blow on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, was correct for the time being. History will judge him. His truly disastrous dramatic bet, occurred later, in the years 2016-2015. First, that unfortunate trip to Congress, "on the head" of then-President Obama, when there was no chance of halting the nuclear deal between Iran and the powers. He was warned, and beeped. He would rather accumulate points two weeks before the election against Herzog, than act in the interest of the Israeli national interest (understand the reality, wait patiently for Trump and in the meantime not burn the club to the Democrats).
But the climax came immediately afterwards, when Trump entered the White House.
Netanyahu took full advantage of his influence and persuaded Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal.
Here, too, he was warned, but ignored.
He preferred short-term returns over long-term security interests.
He was addicted to the pose of the oracle from Jerusalem, the preacher at the gate, the global educator and the universal guide.
In the meantime, disconnect from the mother spacecraft.
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Bennett Chamber Against Netanyahu: During His Time, Iran Reached the Most Advanced Point in the Nuclear Program
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Like many other journalists, in those days I sat in front of quite a few senior members of the defense establishment and encountered embarrassment. Hardly anyone broke into a tumultuous parent in the face of the resounding American withdrawal from the agreement. Its implications were clear: it would allow Iran to approach the nuclear program openly and dramatically, without charging it a significant price. Why are you worried, I asked many senior intelligence and military officials, the Americans are with us, Trump aligned with Bibi, they withdrew from the agreement, the sanctions were renewed more than you, everything is fine, no?
The people sitting in front of me stammered.
"Who said Trump would stay here forever," one asked. "What will happen if Trump loses interest later on and does not militarily attack the Iranian nuclear program," Shani pressed. "The nuclear deal is problematic," he analyzed Tuesday, "but he withdrew Iran backwards and froze it two years away from a bomb. He gave us 12 years of peace that can be exploited for important things at the strategic level. No one knows what will happen once the Americans leave and the Iranians are not committed." "What if we start advancing quickly to the bomb, the Europeans will yawn and the Americans will restrain themselves? What will happen then? Did anyone think of that?"
The answer is yes, there were people who thought about it. Unfortunately, Netanyahu is not one of them. He thought mostly of himself and believed in the practicalities he sold to his people. In this very situation, we are now. It is entirely registered in Netanyahu's name. The flutist from Hamlin has led us and the whole world to the current situation: Iran is closer than ever to the nucleus,It is not committed to anything and there is no significant force in front of it that will try to stop it. Except for us, of course.
Iran is closer than ever to the nucleus.
Khamenei (Photo: Reuters)
Here we come to the really serious story.
First, we will skip 12 years back.
March 2009. Netanyahu won the election (although he received a less early seat from Tzipi Livni) and received the seat to form a government.
Olmert allowed him to start overlapping weeks before the completion of the government train.
Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi summoned him to his office in the Kirya, and opened the doors of the warehouse secret in the world, a warehouse that was being formed Israeli military option unique, invested and obscenely expensive attack nuclear infrastructure militarily with Iran.
Eyes of Netanyahu's eyes widened sedated after a double dose. He called home , Did an act of mental supervision (i.e. postponed dinner with the lady) and stayed there for hours. The next day, he returned. Or more.It cost billions but it was worth gold.
Fell asleep on guard
Fast forward, 12 years ahead.
Naftali Bennett entered the Prime Minister's Office.
He did not receive permission to start the overlap earlier, as Netanyahu did at the time.
The truth is, there was no overlap at all.
Bennett landed right into a problematic, not to mention scary, reality.
When he asked the leaders about Israel's military option in Iran, he replied with a shrug.
When he began to inquire, he was exposed to the scandal: Since he persuaded Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal, Netanyahu has not bothered to worry that Israel will have a military option in case the thesis collapses, Trump disappears and Iran rushes to the bomb.
The defense establishment has begged for the past three years to budget for the renewal and adaptation of the military option, which has become obsolete and has lost relevance, but Netanyahu has delayed. He had time. He rests on the artificial laurels. Who did not turn to him. Gabi Ashkenazi, sitting as chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, bombarded him with letters. Chiefs of Staff, chiefs of security, other senior officials, ministers. or was too busy keeping itself.
Currently, the worst happens: Iran has the legitimacy to violate the agreement and is speeding ahead. it holds a tremendous amount of highly enriched uranium is almost military (60%), she introduced the next generation of centrifuges and coming destination It is receiving not simple blows from unknown sources (yes, even under the Bennett-Lapid government), but it is a huge country with a stable infrastructure, information base and many means.
Now, we are completely dependent on the Americans and in the White House sits a democratic government.
For those who forgot: the Democrats are the ones Netanyahu humiliated, dwarfed, defamed and exploited.
They enjoy watching him suffer.
They know that Bennett is right-wing and more extreme than he is, but they are satisfied with Bibi's defeat.
He cooked this dish with great talent.
We are approaching a situation that Meir Dagan once defined as a "sword on the neck."
A situation in which there is no other choice but to use force.
The problem is, the power is no longer what it used to be.
Landed straight into a problematic reality, with no overlap at all.
Bennett (Photo: Reuven Castro)
How dare he publish an article this week in which he accuses the Bennett government of being "silent", only God knows.
Insolence has never been a rare commodity in his toolbox.
In the face of these unfounded accusations, Prime Minister Bennett was forced to say from the Knesset podium that "there has never been anyone in the State of Israel who has spoken so much and done so little about Iran."
His bureau tried not to embark on a briefing, but not always successfully.
"It is better for Bibi who was silent," said one of the prime minister's men, "not to be dragged after his irresponsibility, but if he thinks he can make us an Iran campaign on his head, he is wrong. Three weeks after this government took office, after all his conception on the subject "Iran has crashed, after not listening to warnings that the Iranians will get rich like crazy if the United States leaves the nuclear deal, does he still dare to keep blabbering and bragging?"
The full column - today in Maariv
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