Since Joe Biden was elected President of the United States, Israel has completely halted construction planning in Judea and Samaria.
The Supreme Council for Planning and Construction in Judea and Samaria (abbreviated MTA) halted its three-month rallies, first on Netanyahu's orders, and since the change of government on Bennett's orders. Her expected day, in practice nothing happens.
The head of the Samaria Regional Council, Yossi Dagan, is well acquainted with the American arena. Already in Netanyahu's day as prime minister, he used to travel to Capitol Hill to make life for Judea and Samaria, with the clear intention of uprooting any attempt by the Israeli political echelon to hang on a high American tree to justify lack of construction. Dagan hear the sounds coming from the government and had no rest.
Dagan rotated between the Chambers of members of Congress and Senate in the house carrying relief map of Israel, to illustrate the security risk which two countries. Here the green line indicates beans on the map, and indicates not only the belt narrow and thin Up to the sea, certainly when it comes to American terms, but it is also in topographic inferiority and is completely controlled by those who will rule the mountains of Samaria.
Dagan introduced them to the extensive industry that is developing in the industrial areas in Samaria, where Jews work alongside Arabs living in the territories. Two separate countries, he explains to them, will lead to damage to industrial areas and disruption to common life. The way to resolve the conflict is through reducing the conflict. Economic peace. This is also the foundation on which the Abrahamic Covenants were founded.
Dagan also met with elected Democrats. On the other hand, the hostility to settlement is sometimes strong, in a way that overrides the attempts at persuasion and also the simple logic. Dagan reminds them that in Obama's presidency, hostility between Israel and the United States broke records. Even if there is disagreement on one issue or another, he told them, it must not lead to a rupture.
Not all meetings were visible. Some members of the Democratic Party preferred to hide the fact that they were meeting with the head of the Samaria Council and asked that their names not be made public. One of them told Dagan after the meeting that he was convinced by the argument that a rift between the parties would lead to the loss of everyone. US wants Israel to represent US interests in the Middle East, and therefore should be avoided at all costs ruptured, he said.
For a short visit succeeded in grain form around a group of several dozen selected Americans, from both parties, representing the interests of settlement and come to visit here soon. "If This is what I managed to do in one short visit, "Dagan said," and I am a total council chairman, one can only describe what the prime minister can do and what the State of Israel can do, if it imposes its weight and power. "There has always been pressure, but leadership is measured by the ability to withstand the pressure and do what is good for the country."
Biden, for the time being, is weak.
Swinging.
Exposed to criticism.
Support for the two-state program was voiced by a "senior State Department official."
The need to "restrain the settlements" was voiced by the US Ambassador to Israel. Although they express his views, Biden for the time being, prefers to remain silent.
Another broken promise
Ayelet Shaked vehemently opposed Gideon Saar's law banning the president from imposing the task of train the government on Benjamin Netanyahu after an indictment was filed against him, but refrained from saying whether the right would use its veto and torpedo the law before it was put to a vote in the Knesset. Shaked itself is not a Knesset member, so it is not even necessary to drop a finger in the coalition's vote count if it is decided to pass the law.
The same party leaders from the coalition who this week elevated the values of democracy and raised them to a mighty miracle, in their speeches at the annual memorial service in memory of Yitzhak Rabin - prefer to take from the people the right to determine who will be its leader and hand over the decision to a public official. Those who cry out for democracy decided to give it up completely when they formed their parties without the elections or the democratic symbols that have always characterized parties in Israel.
Saar himself, whose most important promise before the election - apart from not sitting with Netanyahu, which exists - was to restrain the power of the judiciary, and first and foremost the ombudsman, gives him through the law he initiated a superpower and tremendous power that no one before him and no one had His counterpart is in no democratic country. It
is hard to believe how cowardly it must be to prevent a popular political opponent from running in the elections. Do not go down to him until you have fully achieved her sole purpose: to remove Netanyahu.
In the Likud, they will do everything so that the law does not pass, but there are also those who think about the day after in case they do. The "he will not determine" campaign with a picture of Mandelblit begins to brew in the offices of Zeev Fortress, when it is estimated that the public outrage over the approval of the law will be so great that no one will remain indifferent on Election Day.
On Monday, the opposition managed to exhaust the coalition, to the point that a vote of no confidence succeeded on Cole's edge and they were even forced to withdraw a government bill after the agenda came to an end without having time to raise it. On Wednesday, the opposition even managed to pass a proposal for the establishment of a parliamentary inquiry committee for the transfer and placement of teachers in Arab society - an issue that, while not relevant to the majority of the population, is discriminatory.
This week's events in the Knesset testified that the opposition has recovered after two weak weeks of laxity and dysfunction.
For the government, this is bad news.
On the eve of the budget transfer, the last thing they need to see in front of them is a determined and militant opposition.
On the other hand, the coalition is still coming into this battle when it is the clear favorite and with very high chances of succeeding in the task.
Although this requires a lot of energy, cancellation of vacations and hard work, the opposition is willing to cooperate with the militant line, stay long nights in the plenum and fight for every law and section in the budget, but often its members ask themselves where all this leads.
This question is often left unanswered.
Bnei Gantz option.
No-confidence vote.
Defectors from the coalition.
Urgent and distant possibilities that do not seem to be realized in the foreseeable future.
Netanyahu is trying to convey optimism and radiate to the outside world that this is happening, but without a grip on reality.
Dagan with Congresswoman Kathy McMurris Rogers // Photo: Samaria Regional Council,
And again - the ethnic demon
While Netanyahu himself is waving the political flag, emphasizing that he is the head of the right-wing camp and pushing the Bennett government to the left - some of his friends prefer to emphasize the ethnic flag. The one that was laid many years ago on the floor of the arena of political occurrence and it seemed that no one would pick it up anymore. Certainly not the Likud.
This week, during a discussion in one of the TV studios, MK Galit Distel-Atbrian slapped journalist Aryeh Golan that he was a "racist" after calling her a Netanyahu fan. This continued in the Knesset plenum. On the need to explain what happened in Babi Yar in Ukraine at the time of the deaths, MK Orly Levy-Abkasis shouted and shouted at her grandfather that he was racist and arrogant. She even devoted her speech to the pulpit later.
According to MK Shlomo Karai, this is not a guideline of the party, but a frustration that comes from some of its Knesset members, because they claim that the new coalition treats them time and time again with racism and patronage. In the Likud with academic degrees (Kari himself holds a doctorate in industrial engineering and management), "and all this while the one who leads the current government is a crook, and the replacement prime minister has no education at all," he said.
It hurts them, so they rush to treat us with their noses up in demonstrable condescension, Tear claims, call us all bibists, lacking in self-thinking ability.
A hit in the opposition
In less than six months since he was elected to the Knesset, Itamar Ben Gvir has become one of the favorite figures on the right. Everywhere he goes they stop him for a hug, a compliment and a selfie. So much so that in order to get from home to a public place, even as part of a private visit or family outing, he learned that he had to leave an hour earlier to cross the battalions of fans that would not allow him to advance to his desired district.
Ben Gvir enjoys every moment. Not only in the street are his attention sought, but also in the media. A leader of Jewish power is a sought-after interviewee in the studios, and manages to create an agenda that often occupies the headlines of newspapers and websites. This reality is exactly the opposite of what they hoped would happen to the left-wing parties in the Knesset.
Their plans for him were completely different. The model was Rabbi Kahana. In the first weeks of Ben-Gvir's tenure, his rise to the podium marked the protests of some MKs from Labor and Meretz and, of course, from the Arab parties - just as he did during the time of such a leader. Gvir is gaining popularity, and Knesset members from the left have realized that he is no longer going outside the fence. The Arab MKs are left alone in protest and this drives them crazy. The violent expression given to it by Ayman Odeh this week testifies to this more than anything.
Ben Gvir's influence is not only on the right - so much so that this week the Haaretz newspaper dedicated a special article to him, in which he protested against Knesset members and ministers who removed him in spite of him.
For Ben Gvir, this is nothing less than fuel, as well as the push he never received this week, which he is still going to leverage for a police complaint and a civil lawsuit.
His rivals explode, while he himself continues to happily and cheerfully skip to the next TV studio.
