At the opening of the Blue and White faction meeting last night, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz said: "When I appointed Galit Altstein (temporary GLC commander) to her position, I told her what my expectations were.
In all the other issues, from the broadcast schedule to the appointment of reporters and broadcasters - I have nothing to do with it. " It happened to them.
There is no chance that such a move - which excites the media and the public for long days and also harms the IDF station - has not gone through Ganz and his advisers, including an analysis of the implications for the image to be determined for him in the left, right and center.
The last week has started great for Gantz, with flattering headlines and paragon on both sides of the political map, after the proper justice he has done with the suffering of the divers of the Kishon River.
These won - after decades of developing various cancers and waging war in the establishment - except landed, when they were widely recognized as IDF invalids. In the army - he forgot the first achievement and tarnished his image as a balanced and stately man, whom the public in the center and on the right can pardon.
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Ganz tried last night to remove responsibility from himself and lower the flames following the criticism, but he also knows that the last move was too violent and will cause him deep damage.
Politically, Gantz has been and remains in a great situation, in a government where everyone is careful about his dignity and the popsicle seller's calls "I go" deter them.
His political and image power is built on the fact that he is a lone wolf, not subject to coalition discipline, and more importantly - to social discipline.
In the strange organism called the government of change, the blood of friendship flows between Lapid and Bennett.
But Ganz is not a friend of any of them.
At the plenum table this is very noticeable - while Lapid and Bennett hug, giggle and straighten a line, Ganz and Lapid do not exchange a word.
And it does not end there.
Gantz was hit by a torch that stung him about the story of the soldiers' salaries, and was left alone in the field defending the storm of budgetary pensions.
Gantz is also an enigma on the right.
No one knows "how to eat" the elusive creature - his representatives are careful not to shoot at him the poisonous arrows of criticism, and the desperate camp hangs hope on everything.
The right looks at him in the hope that he will not allow the transfer of the stick and prevent Yair Lapid from becoming prime minister, the left makes him heavy and suspicious for fear that he may be tempted to accept the prime minister from Netanyahu, and return their hated people to the game.
Meanwhile Gantz dances all over the field, scoring points, also squeezing offenses and waiting, or not, for the final second of the game.
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We too, maybe even Ganz himself.
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