This week, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stood in front of the cameras, and lied.
No, this is not about another lie he is throwing at his constituents.
This time, when asked about the evacuation of the yeshiva in Chumash, he said without blinking: "It has been evacuated several times over the years. I think the last time it was in the Netanyahu-Smutrich government, when I was in opposition."
Said - and went on to the next subject.
The fact is, of course, that there has never been such a reality that Smutrich was in the coalition and Bennett in the opposition.
It just did not happen.
The networks that wondered about the strangeness of the statement soon began to burn, but without response.
In the vicinity of that embarrassing incident, Minister Bar-Lev said he needed security because of threats from the right, after talking about "settler violence."
I personally gamble - and this is only my personal opinion - neither threats nor shoes.
At about the same time, the IDF Spokesman began briefing reporters on the "optimistic security situation." How? " In relation to the past. "
Like that, simple.
What about Operation Wall Guard?
Invention.
There is a comic dimension here: the day before, an IDF report was released, summarizing a year of increase in Palestinian terrorism in Judea and Samaria. So what is the meaning of the contradiction? Ask someone else, everything is quiet. Much has been said about the "attack" she experienced. In short, a trend.
This, of course, is the place to point out the obvious: Politicians don’t always really stick.
Netanyahu, too, without the evil eye, was caught lying more than once and not three times.
The difference is that his remarks as Prime Minister were tested in the mainstream media with loud shouts, loud shock and pulling out historians and scholars after every statement (the Mufti, remember? He was right about that, by the way). Just scroll a little in the feed.
If so, why do Prime Minister Bennett, Minister Bar-Lev, Dotz, Silman & Co. also allow themselves this? Simply because they can. Currently, in the world outside the Internet, there is almost no statistic - fictional or real - that they will declare about the success of their work, which will have conflicting questions. In the current reality outside News 13-12, half of the country is on fire: in Judea and Samaria daily terrorist attacks; a three-minute walk from the national police headquarters, which is the responsibility of Bar-Lev, lynchings of Jewish families in Shimon Hatzadik (everything is photographed); The streets of Lod are a daily affair; at the time of writing, you will be with me - be with me for a moment - injured by stone-throwing at the Hizma checkpoint, stones on vehicles near Deir Nizam, two cars on a bus in a perforated envelope, stones on the Trans-Judean road. The power of three hours, and this is when soldiers in Ramla were instructed not to walk around in uniform for fear of their safety.
Do not try to look for reports of this on TV or in the headlines.
There is a narrative to preserve: everything here returns to sanity, there is a unity government, there is security.
And what about the house burning in the back?
Keep going, there is no fire, there is nothing to see.
Were we wrong?
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