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Fateful mission: Bennett's mission in Washington - to restore the relationship that Netanyahu destroyed

The importance of the Prime Minister's trip cannot be overstated. All scenarios

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Friday, 27 August 2021, 04:41 Updated: 12:42

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The importance of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's trip to Washington cannot be overstated.

The mission: to create a personal, intimate and warm axis of cooperation with the most powerful man in the world.

Joe Biden has testified in the past that he is a non-Jewish Zionist.

But he holds leftist views.

Naftali Bennett, if you ignore for a moment the sewage full of the screaming mouths of the bibists, is a Jewish Zionist, with right-wing views.

The task will not be easy, although Bennett has significant four-eye liking ability.

The personal connection is essential in order to try to save something from the fire that consumed some of Israel's strategic assets in the United States, the fire it lit and the core of Bennett's predecessor in office. In the lengthy discussions Bennett had before the trip, an effort was made to produce a simple formula that would allow the new relationship he was trying to establish with Washington to function like the coalition: working together, pardoning each other, washing the dirty laundry indoors, despite differences in perceptions, attitudes and ideology. Or in the words of Bennett himself: agree on 80% of things, do not break the tools on the remaining 20%.

Bennett's greatest asset on his way to this difficult task is called Netanyahu.

Benjamin Netanyahu.

Democrats in America saw Netanyahu mark them, saw him actively support two Republican candidates (Mitt Romney and Donald Trump), saw him humiliate a Democratic president in front of his House of Representatives and turn an incumbent president into a political punching bag without blinking an eye.

If we had forced him, Biden would have preferred Bezalel Smutrich in the prime minister's office over Netanyahu.

Americans settle for little: work with someone who will not lie to them around the clock or embarrass them on a weekly basis.

that's it.

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Biden spoke to Bennett on the phone;

Their meeting was rescheduled for 5:25 p.m.

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The importance of the Prime Minister's trip cannot be overstated. Bennett before leaving for the United States this week (Photo: Government Press Office, Avi Ohayon)

One dispute between Israel and the United States cannot be mediated: the United States seeks to return to a nuclear agreement with Iran, while Israel believes that an agreement in its current format is bad. Bennett has already decided not to enter into a public confrontation on this issue. He knows it will not help. How does he know? From the fact that Netanyahu did enter into a public confrontation with Barack Obama on this issue, it did not help. The agreement was signed. What Netanyahu has managed to cause is tremendous strategic damage to Israel's most vital interests, damage that Bennett is trying to minimize now.

For those who have forgotten: Obama, not only did he go for Bibi's nuclear deal, he also avenged him (and his son) by not vetoing settlements in the UN Security Council towards the end of his term and not upgrading the military aid agreement for a full decade, as he could There was (and do not believe the biblicalists who boast of this aid agreement. It could have been much bigger, had Netanyahu been able to listen to those who explained it to him in real time).

Caused enormous strategic damage to Israel's most vital interests.

Netanyahu (Photo: Flash 90, Olbia Fitoussi)

Then came the gift that kept giving (without cynicism), redheaded and unrestrained, Trump her name.

Contrary to the biblio-Messianic belief, Trump was not elected because of Netanyahu or even because of "the name."

This did not stop Netanyahu from celebrating as if there was no tomorrow.

The problem is, it was tomorrow.

Tomorrow is today, and Netanyahu did not think about it.

He did not prepare an alternative plan in case Trump loses.

He did not prepare a relevant military option in case any possibility he hoped for did not happen: an Iranian surrender and signing of a better agreement, a US attack or the collapse of power in Iran.

On the contrary: in the face of the "maximum pressure" policy, Iran did not collapse, faced, and began to violate the agreement (rightly so), accelerated uranium enrichment, came very close to the status of "threshold state" and now it is all before us when Trump is gone.

Only we were left in the field, collecting the fragments of Netanyahu's arrogance.

So Bennett needs to clean it all up now.

It will try to mobilize the Americans for an agreed outline between the two countries, which will include all possible scenarios, including a new nuclear agreement between Iran and the powers.

Maximize understandings, agree together on alternatives, what to do if Iran violates the agreement, how to make sure it does not advance to the nuclear secret, how to compensate Israel and how to maintain its qualitative advantage.

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