Hello Mr. Prime Minister.
Glad you finally found Be'er Sheva in Wise, it's really time for you to discover life south of Givat Shmuel.
But leave nonsense, have you arrived?
Welcome!
Hope they received you with a hot Beersheba hospitality and a spinach full of sugar.
Because that's about the only thing that's sweet here right now.
Everyone knows that the situation in the south is on the face, on the abdomen and especially on the knees.
You can argue when the neglect started, but you said you get a responsibility and you came to work - blackmailer!
But when you come here and say "militias" like it's a bad thing, and then talk about the South in terms of the Wild West - we're in trouble, because you can do both.
PM observes Rahat: "There are militias here, we will move from defense to attack" / Photo: Yaniv Zohar
You see, these "militias", just like the bus that was stoned to death by a Bedouin boy, are the result of the indecision that has accompanied the south of the country since time immemorial.
We have always had a future and a southern Negev stuck in the sand.
And when the PM looks at Rahat, a city and many mothers in Israel, and then says that "we need to move from defense to attack," I am worried, Naftali. And this is because the south is a country far from the eye and far from the heart and especially far from the pocket of the government.
And this is the thing: the "issue of the Negev" is not a Bedouin, it is not a southern issue and it is not a local issue. This is an issue of governance in the territories of this country, or rather its absence. All these years we shouted and said again that if they save a shekel on police vehicles, they will invest a hundred shekels in special units, and where they reduce two shekels in education they will pay two hundred to the IPS, and those who do not commit suicide on Rahat children will get suicide bombers far away.
The south has always been a different country, because that is how it was treated.
You hugged when missiles fell, but only when they arrived in Tel Aviv - something changed.
And this is what's most frightening when you say that the law of Be'er Sheva and Rahat is the law of Tel Aviv, I remember one in the south who said that "the law of Netzarim is the law of Tel Aviv," and we both know how it ended.
Want to solve the problem?
First step, do as the King of Morocco.
Come live here in Be'er Sheva for two months, stay on weekends in Yeruham, and then you too will understand that the south does not need promotions and cultivations - it needs a change of policy.
Prime Minister Bennett and Minister Bar-Lev, Photo: Yossi Aloni / Flash 90
He needs a real investment in what we Israelis do, he needs the policeman guarding me not to have to wait three months for an eye doctor for his daughter.
And anyone who has a heart attack in Mitzpe Ramon at one o'clock in the afternoon is sentenced to die because there is no intensive care unit.
We need equal civil rights, and for that to happen, we need a policy that governs Tel Aviv like the law of Beersheba and Rahat.
Either the south will be like the whole country, or the whole country will be south.
Or in other words, do not come to visit, the Prime Minister - stay.
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