It is no big secret
that in an election campaign, candidates tend to exaggerate their condemnation and praise themselves a little more than is customary in a cultural society.
Cultural society, for its part, is supposed to sniff its nose subtly, grab a cup of tea and say with arrogant kindness: "Man, these politicians with their nonsense."
This proportionate response has not been very popular in the four election campaigns we have had in the last two years.
Our civilized elites, those who sit wherever there is influence, have made the mistake that every drug dealer should avoid, and we have smoked their own substance.
Thus one could find Bnei Gantz sitting in the studios and being asked in amazement how he manages to be so stately, while huge signs “either blue and white or Erdogan” hang on the sides of main roads, and demonstrators with filters on their heads climb bare-chested on the lamp statue and try to recreate the onslaught on The Bastille, only in Balfour.
However, he was a clear winner in the "Who is the best of all in the gap" competition, and that is of course Naftali Bennett.
The aforementioned declared himself a candidate for prime minister even when the polls gave him a single-digit number of seats, and recommended himself for the position with the same single-digit number, all without shame and without fear of being fired. The plaintiff is also against all odds: he just knows everything.
Last week, MK Aryeh Deri addressed the Knesset plenum and asked Bennett, who had indeed managed to blackmail a prime minister thanks to the political distress of the left and the fraud of his constituents: "Tell people your dream even then, that I came out in shock, The world is in favor of Israel. "
Well, certainly, as one seat in the right equivalent to four of the Likud, that one speech to the United Nations by Bennett equivalent to seventy-odd years of anti-Israel, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism globally. Obviously.
But there was no need for Deri to reveal the madness Bennett's Magnifications He himself did it with great success before the election, before the Prime Minister, before the slap in the face from reality, the good old days when he tried to present himself as Superman.
In early July 2020
Bennett set up an alternative corona cabinet, and a week later was quick to tweet: "Just. Just ruined the lives of a million citizens. All this did not happen four months ago, unfortunately, probably because Benjamin Netanyahu feared 'Naftali Bennett would eradicate the corona too much.' By August he already had a spectacular plan in its simplicity: "The plan of action here I want to present," he said with emotion and accompanied by vigorous hand movements unrelated to anything, "has two stages. One - take control of the corona in a few weeks, defeat the corona. Do not say 'wait until the vaccine', because there may be a vaccine and there may not be a vaccine. So we will not be sold for the vaccine. So the first step is to take control of the corona, and the second step is to come in and get into the chronic problems with a lot of hand movements that have nothing to do with anything. "Walla how did we not think of that? Obviously the first step is to take over the corona !!!
However, August also saw the release of his modestly titled book "How to Beat an Epidemic," which ends with the words: "Corona? Small task for us. Whatever it is - we're ready. '
In October 2020, confidence in Bennett's miraculous abilities increased until Matan Kahana, the last favorite on the right-wing list, two days before he was sworn in as MK for the first time, addressed a friendly request to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Come on Netanyahu, let Bennett replace you as prime minister for two months."
In December, the vaccines arrived. Most of the country's senior citizens were vaccinated in two doses and breathed a sigh of relief. In June, the healing government was sworn in. On the two-month anniversary of Netanyahu's replacement of Bennett at Kahana's request (today the Minister of Religions, God willing), thousands of new patients were diagnosed with the violent delta strain of the corona, dozens of infected died, and in August Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked was found sitting in News 13, requesting to contain the dead. Citizens get vaccinated, as if she had never heard of the first phase of Bennett's plan to take over the corona within a few weeks and without indulging in vaccines.
In Bennett's defense, it
should be said that even Superman sometimes needs help, and he - apart from him and the members of the right, no one thinks he is really a prime minister. The change government is made up of several clans that have no wedding ties, and that is even before the RAAM is counted. They are united solely around their hatred of Netanyahu and his voters, and accepted Bennett as prime minister only as a necessary means to achieve this goal. They will be rewarded for obeying him. The power he has as prime minister is exactly the power provided to him by the seats he has managed to amass.
But Bennett is no ordinary man. An ordinary person has a proper reality tester, even to an extent that allows him to identify himself when he looks in the mirror. But Bennett, and with him all the members of the right, still believe that they are a ruling party headed by a prime minister who has no equal in ability, and even if you crush them in a crater you will not take away their pretensions. Their Superman flies - on himself - and continues to make movements with his hands even as he gets stuck in the wall.
It is hard to believe that Bennett is able to understand the gap between his self-image and the way he actually takes over the corona. He is probably memorizing his speech to the UN, the one that will change the world's attitude to Israel.
Will he succeed in this task just as he managed to take over the corona? Deri is not sure: " ".