The following harsh words were not said by an opposition source.
Nor someone who is connected to Netanyahu or the Likud, but a minister who sees what is happening around him and can no longer remain silent.
If there is no change, it is not certain that he can continue to be a minister in the government of which he has an opinion.
But in the meantime he's waiting.
For a change or a fall that he thinks is not unreasonable to come soon.
"Naftali Bennett is trying hard to recreate Netanyahu's international aura and he is not succeeding," he says. In every sentence so that they will remember that he knows English. He went to the UN, gave this speech and fell on his face. Went to Moscow and Putin 'slipped' him. He needs to get home before Saturday and he sits and smears it. It's intentional, so make no mistake. He wants to show him who the boss is.
"I know they present it the other way around: that the meeting was extended because of the chemistry, friendship and mutual respect. Nonsense in tomato juice. If the goal was to maintain the status quo and maintain freedom of action in Syria, it could be closed within two hours and end interest. But if what matters is a picture Like a young boy, so Putin grinds him. He thus increases Israel's commitment to him. Does anyone buy that he fell in love with Bennett? The problem is not that Putin gave him a bear hug, but he sat on it. So did Biden. There are no free hugs. What are we, in a Walt Disney legend? In the nonsense you tell them. "
The same minister also criticizes the political conduct of the prime minister and senior members of the coalition. "Everyone feels the shifts in the ground," he says. And spouses, meaning an event of 120 people, and Bennett will take the stage and speak as if it were a speech to his party. He does not have three seats. Fulfilled if only the ministers were invited, fulfilled, they are committed. "But to invite all the MKs? What do they care about him at all. He does not interest them. This is a copy of what Netanyahu had only with less talent."
Regarding the vote on the budget planned for next week, the minister says: "When you count the fingers in the budget, you can reach not only 61 but more. But every finger has a price. "What's the problem? For the right price, the joint list will also be supported from the outside."
The political frictions, in his eyes, are more severe than what is reflected in the media. "Bennett would never have taken Elkin to Russia," he said. "He took him so he wouldn't run away. Does he need him to translate? What, no ambassador? Elkin brought Bennett to power and in return he wanted to be appointed Speaker of the Knesset. Bennett does not exist, and now he is trying to please him, so he took it.
"Bennett is a startupist, that is - no more than a dream seller. He runs to investors and says bring me money, and from the moment they bring in, he does not care if it succeeds or not. He did his thing. That's how it is here with the prime minister. Everyone united around him and fulfilled The goal. Everything else does not interest him. He does not need them anymore. The question regarding the stability of the government is not whether the budget will pass or not, but how far the MKs on the right and with new hope are sure that this government will hold.
And they'm not sure.
"Everyone knows that in the first military test the government will have, God forbid, its story is over."
The day after the budget
The one who brings about the political instability, according to the same minister, is the government itself: "The insecurity that Bennett and the prime ministers are transmitting is insane. When Idit Silman begins to think further, what does he do? He sends the party secretary to send her a letter. After all, there is no such party really on the right. No offices, no phone answering or anything. there's nothing. The Jewish home has, the right does not have. Right in the process of disintegration and that means that at any given moment you can fall for something. Everyone is sure there is a budget, I'm not entirely sure. In my opinion, Netanyahu did not say the last word in this context and he is working hard these days. "
Edith Silman is not alone. At least three coalition parties do not see their future without being armored by Yesh Atid in the next elections: Meretz, Labor and Yisrael Beiteinu. The units that are one hundred percent certain to pass have a future and blue and white. In such a situation, I do not recognize a steel iron that the budget is sure to pass. The 'Norwegian' MKs also know that they have no place in the next Knesset. Right does not exist. Naftali Bennett is not interested in anything. He wants to be prime minister for two years, to go down in history as the one who did this and that. He made the exit, the money is already in the bank. "
Not sure if there really is a real danger that the budget will not pass, but one thing is for sure and that is that the budget is not the last fateful test of this coalition. In the media there is little to report, and even as a neighbor, it is done at a low intensity, almost carelessly, but the cracks that are revealed every week and even every day - become serious and significant. On matters of etiquette and manners, religion and state, the legal system and so on, one can be flexible and compromise. Lots of noise but very little ideology. But on political issues hard core, like political negotiations, construction in Judea and Samaria, a desire to please the Americans - on these issues a religious war can develop within the government.
The base of Meretz and Labor is losing patience.
Netanyahu's removal was important and worthy, but it could not, in their opinion, legitimize the construction of thousands of housing units in Judea and Samaria, the establishment of a new settlement and a conflict with Biden's democratic administration. Coalition: To give freedom of action to one side means dragging the government into a situation of complete chaos and loss of control.
Clerks with muscles
The fact that a bureaucratic committee may torpedo the appointment of a former minister to a senior position in a government corporation is indicative of the inconceivable weakness of a dysfunctional government. The "political affiliation" that Amir Peretz has, due to which the Gilour Committee decided to torpedo his appointment as chairman of IAI, does not hold water. Thus, one role: to determine whether the candidate has the necessary skills or whether it is an unfounded and inappropriate appointment, not the committee, but the government.
"Amir Peretz is not part of the ideological camp to which I belong," wrote MK Yariv Levin of the Likud on his Facebook page, "but no one can take away from him the vast experience he has gained in a long line of public positions, from the most senior. Peretz served as defense minister, and was the one who decided in favor of developing and manufacturing an Iron Dome system that saved many lives. He has held a number of other positions, including Minister of Economy, Chairman of the Histadrut and Member of Knesset for many years.
"It takes extraordinary audacity on the part of a number of committee members, none of whom has experience close to that of Amir Peretz, to so blatantly disqualify him.
" This is further proof that the entire country is held captive by a handful of judges and officials people, removing discretion and public authority entrusted them elected. "
the current government suspected right-wing circles for a long time as designed to serve primarily as a tool in the hands of officials and legal advisers. it hegemony established in recent years, shook her chair slightly under it (and really not enough). case Amir Peretz is a test case. There is no political interests, Peretz's on the left and the right wing has no interest in who will be appointed or not the job. If he will be appointed at the end, return to order. and it would be the first case but will be many cases similar to him.
but if not be appointed - The officials will overcome the elected, all the far-reaching implications that this has.
The victim on duty.
Peretz / Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,
Subservience and self-flagellation
Since the killing of 43 Kfar Qassem residents in October 1956 by Border Police fighters, during the days when the village sat on the border line, the Arab representatives in the Knesset have been trying through law and proposals to bring the issue back to the agenda. Them, not the memory of their names, but the defamation of Israel and the defense establishment, which they detested before and after the
incident
.
The panel of judges in the Jerusalem District Military Court, headed by Justice Benjamin Halevi, has been taught repeatedly in military schools, training and education workshops, for decades since then. The event deserves to be learned. We will change an event like this or similar.
But the obsessive desire to pass laws and proposals to "recognize the massacre," to make the state "take responsibility" for what is happening, are nothing more than dancing on the blood of the dead to advance anti-Israel political goals. The state has already accepted responsibility. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion has already stated in real time that this is an "act of horror that harms the most sacred foundations of human morality drawn from the Torah of Israel." Those responsible were tried, convicted and punished. But the unforgivable fact is that in order to avoid embarrassment to the government in a vote by MK Thomas Suleiman from the joint list, the government considered supporting government recognition of the "massacre" 65 years after the incident - shows that there are no red lines that will cross the path of Bennett, Lapid, Shaked and their friends .
ideological differences were also reflected in the decision of Defense Minister Benny Gantz, following the recommendation of the security system, remove the six organizations associated with the Popular front of Judea and Samaria Arabs workers from human rights groups.
Ganz is not a right-wing man.
On the contrary.
Until a few months ago he headed the left-wing camp, and all those who attack him now have done everything to make him king.
The fact that the defense minister is now receiving harsh criticism from them, and the fierce anger with which Labor and Meretz fighters to protest the decision, show how radical the elements are in the coalition, and how impossible it will be to operate such an extremist vehicle over time.
