The drama surrounding Minister Ayelet Shaked's Facebook post against the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and against Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz was, in the best tradition of the Israeli media, completely exaggerated.
The criticism that Shaked hurled at her coalition partners was worthy, correct, good that it was written and it is a pity that it was not written before.
However, it did not attack them, and certainly did not create any coalition crisis.
Her words did not even come close to that.
They were much more stately, with no mention of names and with a direct and matter-of-fact appeal to the right-wing public whose reflection it represents.
Even if large sections of it do not feel it represents them: "Labeling a large electorate - as opponents and assassins of democracy - is a terrible injustice done to determined and valued ideological people, who are forced every day to endure slime and insults, even in their representatives."
Well spoken.
Shaked and Bennett.
Similar messages, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon - Archive
Moreover, Shaked in total, believe it or not, repeated things said by none other than a party partner, Prime Minister Bennett, in a line he repeated in his two speeches, at the state rally in memory of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and in the Knesset plenum. Which hardly referred to Bennett's words: "It is forbidden to discredit an entire public if an individual from that public commits a crime or a crime. There is room for everyone's pain - of someone who dreamed of peace and his dream shattered with a loud noise, of someone who thought he was defending the Land of Israel and was automatically categorized as an extremist or even an accomplice in crime. " To the right, while Bennett tries to stabilize him in the center.
Although Ayelet Shaked has been on the political field for nearly a decade, she has not yet developed an elephant skin. What is written about her and said about her is very important to her, even too much in relation to the average politician. However, despite her high sensitivity to what her right-wing campers say, people who have been in talks with her in recent months claim that she has decided to stop following the criticisms of Bezalel Smutrich and Itamar Ben Gvir against her. Mainly, because she claims that while she often defends them, they continue to untie her blood almost every day. Could it be that this, alongside the consistent line she is trying to create in her recent statements, is a political backbone she is developing? It is clear to everyone that she is not just conveying right-wing messages in Arabic in different countries, responding to the left wing of the coalition partnership and meeting with key figures on the right. Characters that today, how to put it mildly? Do not like her. To say the least.
Shaked and Smutrich.
The Minister of the Interior stopped following the criticism of the chairman of Religious Zionism, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
A final and important remark about the tweet of MK Shirley Pinto, her party member. Pinto was wrong when she posted a tweet blaming former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Rabin's assassination. The right in the context of the assassination.
