Several historical events have taken place recently, but we no longer seem to remember what it was all about.
This week's visit by President Yitzhak Herzog to Turkey is indeed a historic turning point - and this is how he defined it.
The president did not say these things to glorify himself.
He left for Ankara almost quietly.
In great modesty.
But I will never remember in the past a president responsible for a political breakthrough.
Not Reuben Rivlin.
Not Shimon Peres.
Herzog became foreign minister.
Erdogan started - and Herzog continued.
Herzog on a historic visit: "Hatikva" plays in Erdogan's palace // Photo: GPO
The truth was that it was strange to see Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the man who had spread hatred for years against Israel, become a party and perform in honor of the Israeli president ceremonies with many dozens of uniformed soldiers from all generations of the Ottoman Empire.
Here are horses running across the huge plaza in front of the palace in Ankara.
Here is one of the riders, a Turkish retiree apparently, waving Israeli and Turkish flags.
The Armed Forces of the Sunni states are now organized together around the Israeli-Turkish axis.
Erdogan also has a pressing economic interest.
He thinks increasing trade this year to $ 10 billion will benefit his economy in an ongoing crisis.
And once Russian President Vladimir Putin completes the occupation of the Black Sea coast, including Odessa, Russian pressure on Erdogan's neck will only threaten even more.
President Yitzhak Herzog at a press conference held with Turkish President Erdogan, Photo: GPO
Relations between Israel and Turkey will now be similar to the distant tango danced by Herzog and Erdogan on the blue carpet runway.
It's a tribute - you.
And it reaches out - after you.
And they revolve around each other.
Erdogan talks about trade relations and joint projects in the fields of technology, defense industry, tourism, agriculture.
Erdogan is very interested in this, more than Israel.
He takes from every direction.
He is a NATO member who buys weapons from Russia. No such thing is heard. Then he sells weapons to Ukraine. So now Israel again.
And this is perhaps a point that due to the dizziness in Ankara is hard to think of.
Upon landing in Istanbul at midnight, things look a little different.
Erdogan talked about many areas in which Israel and Turkey can cooperate.
In fact, it is cooperation in favor of Turkey, which in turn comes with demands to discuss controversial issues.
But what are these issues?
These are areas that in any normal country are within its internal affairs.
Like the capital of that country, for example Jerusalem.
The Turks have something to say on any controversial issue, but they first do and then discuss.
For example, on the issue of the Palestinians, when an Islamist terrorist organization like Hamas has been receiving a windfall from Turkey for years.
But all this is speculation on the expenditure side. President Erdogan is apparently so interested in returning to normalization with Israel that the Turks have made sure that there is no diplomatic incident.
Such incidents are usually well planned.
Herzog and Erdogan pass in front of the Order of Honor, Photo: Haim Tzach / GPO
The only incident was between our forces.
Herzog, the pioneer, rushed forward and wanted to determine the return of the ambassadors.
The matter took on excessive significance and he called to reassure Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
He, and only he, will determine the subject of the ambassadors.
From the beginning of the campaign, the president emphasized the issue of coordination with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Lapid. Or the Secretary of State.
Overall there was also a cultural dimension to this encounter in Turkey.
President Herzog presented Erdogan with a copy of a poem written by the glorious Sultan Suleiman, one of the rulers of the 16th-century Ottoman Empire, also known as a poet.
Yesterday, the president visited the Neve Shalom synagogue, which knew of three deadly terrorist attacks years ago.
A sense of abandonment
The Biden administration continues in President Obama's line: Reconciliation with Iran, which after the nuclear deal formed in Vienna, will be intensified and aggressive
Among the US-linked Middle East countries, after two weeks of war in Ukraine, there is a much worse feeling than before.
Years ago, when White House officials were working on the first nuclear deal, then-Vice President Joe Biden had a mouthful: "Our biggest problem is our allies."
President Obama worked hard and then touched on the sale of Putin's Middle East to Iran and Russia.
Mostly things are said in Syria.
So Israel and Saudi Arabia were considered troublemakers.
Today, after the new nuclear agreement that has not yet been signed, and after Russia's progress in the dismantling of Ukraine, the feeling of the Arab states with which Israel is in a strategic partnership is that of abandonment.
There is no sense of who to trust and who to build.
As we saw this week at the Lapid-Blinken meeting, the Americans understand Israel's special problem with Putin.
At present they do not exert pressure to show excessive opposition to the Russians.
In Israel, there is apparently no consensus at the top of the political-security arena.
The US position, which on the one hand imposes the sanctions that seem to be the most severe on Russia, and on the other hand is aided by Russia as an intermediary with Iran on the nuclear issue - causes a concussion.
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The Biden administration continues in Obama's line - reconciliation with Iran and the formation of a strategic partnership with it in the Middle East.
But in practice, after the nuclear deal, it will be a powerful and aggressive Iran that wields the arms of its terrorist emissaries throughout the Middle East.
President Herzog and his wife Michal before takeoff, Photo: Credit Photo: Haim Tzach / GPO
The war in Ukraine masks from the public eye the de facto nuclear deal in effect and is just waiting for Russian approval.
Yes, the terrible Putin, who now holds the hand over the gas, oil and nuclear deal, which is also actually just a green mark for the Iranians to drill and pump oil at full capacity.
Revenue is sky-high at $ 130 a barrel, up $ 200.
At the time, there was talk that in order for the Iranian economy to profit and be able to fund all of its aggressive projects - including nuclear, missile, terrorism and welfare for its residents - the price of the barrel should be at least $ 70.
Obama spoke at the time that by 2028 Iran would be ready with the entire production line and advanced centrifuges, and the distance between it and an atomic bomb would be zero.
There is currently talk that Israel has two and a half years left to prepare to deal with Iran's nuclear capability in its own way.
Israel accepts responsibility and insists on the commitment not to allow nuclear weapons in Iran.
Today, with the American run for agreement, it is clear that Netanyahu was right.
The period in which the United States withdrew from the agreement was a period of intense operational activity against nuclear facilities, against leading scientists and missile sites. Israel will not be able to act against areas of nuclear development that the United States has signed.
Especially after what the Americans call "Regime Change" was carried out in Israel.
Whatever we call it, since the days of Obama, Democrats have been engaged in personal incitement against Netanyahu.
The effort was long for them, but they managed, on the basis of the delegitimization of Netanyahu and the Likud, to mobilize the relevant elites accompanied by street militias, and bring about the formation of a government whose significance goes far into the future of the country - we have not yet fully internalized.
Already thirty
In time, Begin's security leadership, without which peace with Egypt and the destruction of the reactor in Iraq would not have been possible, sharpens.
This week marked the 30th anniversary of Menachem Begin's death.
At the time, the late Amnon Dankner wrote a single play about him. Begin is worth an opera. Perhaps a wide-ranging film. During his six years in power, there were great events, historical events. But his great achievement was beyond what can be measured. Killer. "In the left-wing demonstrations, they shouted at the pace:" Begin, Raful and Sharon - how many children did you kill today? "
Today's Menachem Begin enjoys a new life in the memory of the nation.
The left cultivates it as the antithesis of today's Likud leadership.
The Likud in its day as the real Likud compared to the Likud of today.
They are trying to sell it to the right, and many on the right like to gain a little paternalistic sympathy from the elites.
But overall, the attitude of the establishment and the various socialist parties in his lifetime was not much different from that which Benjamin Netanyahu enjoys today.
In the 1959 election campaign, Begin appeared in the Hatikva neighborhood, and perhaps it was elsewhere, in another election campaign, accompanied by motorcyclists.
Since then they have not stopped waving against Herut and Menachem Begin on these motorcycles, which all scholars have said proves to be fascism.
In many ways, Begin marked the direction, and his great hater, Ben-Gurion, adopted him and made him his original policy.
This is the case with the Hebrew rebellion in the mid-1940s, which culminated in the explosion of the King David Hotel.
This is the case with the policy of activism of retaliatory actions, which in the 1950s became a policy led by Ben-Gurion and his guardians, Moshe Dayan and Arik Sharon.
There is a lot to learn from Begin's years in power, and it seems that the real lessons have not yet been analyzed.
Begin's power was in his moral authority.
As a security leader she helped him greatly during the tenure of the first four years.
During this tenure, Begin took over the leadership of national security.
Most Israeli prime ministers tend to transfer national security to the hands of "Mr. Security" Toren, and it becomes the decision-making authority in security matters.
Golda Meir, Yitzhak Shamir and Olmert were like that.
Today, Naftali Bennett.
Without Begin's takeover of the security issue, even though he had been defense minister for about three years in the person of Ezer Weizmann, there would have been no peace with Egypt;
And after Weizmann resigned, when Begin took over the defense portfolio, Israel would not have gone out to destroy the reactor in Iraq.
The differences in the reception for President Herzog, Photo: Haim Tzach / GPO
In the second term, Begin erred and almost unknowingly transferred national security to Arik Sharon.
The result is a war and the loss of control over its results. Good reasons for its decline.
Begin's power was in moral authority.
As a security leader, she helped him greatly during his first term, in which he took over the leadership of national security.
In the second term, he erred and almost unknowingly passed the baton in this area to Sharon
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