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Opinion | The really big upheaval the day after Netanyahu Israel today

2022-01-16T21:54:14.723Z


Benjamin Netanyahu faces the most significant dilemma in his political life • If he retires as a result of the filing of an indictment, the political system will be shaken, and so will the current coalition • But the big changes will come first and foremost in the Likud movement


Benjamin Netanyahu faces the most significant dilemma in his political life.

His signing of the document to be drafted by his lawyers and the State Attorney's Office will bring an end to his public career, and this time forever.

Not that he wanted to go, and certainly not now.

It is likely that if he still estimates that in the coming years, before the end of his trial, he will be able to return to the Prime Minister's Office - he will not sign.

If he signs, he seems to have come to the conclusion that the chances of that in the foreseeable future are not in his favor.

The emerging plea deal has shown Netanyahu that many of his supporters are not blindly admired, and that not every decision of his will be adopted.

Since reports began that the parties were close to an agreement, the "babysitters" had been divided into two camps: those who demanded that Netanyahu continue with all his might, whatever the personal price he would pay.

The justice and law enforcement system needs to be cleaned up and whoever started doing the work must, for them, finish it.

The only way to do this is to continue the sentence to the end without blinking and without looking for shortcuts and relief.

In their view, only a resounding acquittal, at least from the main charges, would be able to give the prosecution and the ombudsman such a severe blow that the amendment that would follow would be easy and quick.

On the other hand, there are Netanyahu's supporters who believe that the situation of the justice system is so difficult that the former prime minister has no chance of standing up to it, that is, to come out completely entitled.

After all, a light charge, such as fraud or breach of trust, is enough to send him to a long prison term.

Therefore, they believe that this is a completely personal decision.

A decision that should be made not by Netanyahu the leader but Netanyahu the family man, along with his wife, sons and lawyers.

The first group to sign a plea deal will have a fatal blow.

They sincerely believe that Netanyahu is the man to clean the stables.

They are not impressed by the fact that for a decade as prime minister, Netanyahu did not touch on these issues, nor did Aharon Barak's statement that Netanyahu (until the charges were filed against him) was one of the great defenders of the justice system.

For them, the Netanyahu trial is their trial.

Although they will not go to prison if convicted, their values ​​and beliefs, represented by Netanyahu, will receive an equally painful blow and their support for Netanyahu is conditional on the trial lasting until the end.

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

If Netanyahu resigns as a result of an indictment, the political system will be shaken, as will the current coalition.

However, the big changes will come first and foremost in the Likud movement.

One of the first decisions the next leader, whoever he will be, will be to determine the nature of the party on the sensitive issue of the justice system.

Whether to interrupt the huge wave of support that has joined the Likud, even from the left, just because of the great distrust of the same system, or to abandon the struggle and draw a line, as other right-wing elements such as Gideon Saar and Naftali Bennett have done.

The decision on the new party's position on the justice system may cross the Likud.

Many MKs currently serving in the faction will not agree to stop the struggle in the justice system and will demand that the amendment be continued. Dedication to this line will not only challenge the next leader in the face of the law enforcement system, but also in the coalition partners he seeks to dissolve.

As MK Ophir Akunis told Likud activists yesterday: "This is not the time for succession battles.

The meetings, the polls, the announcements to Likud functionaries.

Not only are they out of place at the moment, they are very harmful to traffic.

Let's be human first.

Being human is above politics.

We are not politicians but friends on the road.

"The time is not easy for the chairman of our movement. We need to back him up now and not deal with who will replace him."

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Source: israelhayom

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