Bennett became addicted to the post of prime minister - and lost his dressing room along the way

When he took office, Bennett did what an Israeli patriot was supposed to do: storm the state's burning problems.

But he was not aware of the terrible suffering of good people like Silman and Orbach, who had suffered terrible attacks from the babysitters.

The writing was on the wall - but Bennett did not see it, he fell asleep on guard

Ben Mercury

06/04/2022

Wednesday, 06 April 2022, 22:17 Updated: Thursday, 07 April 2022, 07:01

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In the video: Netanyahu refers in a speech in the Knesset to Silman's retirement from the coalition (Photo: Knesset Channel)

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was interviewed by MSNBC last night (Wednesday) and said: "I'm simply saying I'm not optimistic about the chances of reaching a nuclear deal with Iran, we are not there."

His remarks confirm the general impression that the nuclear deal is currently stuck and the deadlock closed.

This follows a brilliant political move by the Bennett-Lapid government, which recognized the "soft underbelly" of the agreement with the intention of removing the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations and was pushed into this "seam".

The results are good.

President Biden realizes today that he can not pass this move at home, the Iranians are not willing to compromise and the story is stuck.

Bennett's political adviser, who will be back soon, has been in Washington for five days.

She almost moved into the White House.

Yesterday, in a rare coincidence, 20 Democratic lawmakers announced that this matter with the Revolutionary Guards was not acceptable to them.

This event embodies the intensity of the tragedy of Naftali Bennett.

It mediates between Russia and Ukraine, establishes a Middle East alliance against Iran, leads the defense establishment to unprecedented intensification and manages to thwart, or at least delay, the nuclear deal without burning the bridge to Washington.

Well, and who is it interesting this morning between Raanana and Rehovot, the Silman family's place of residence?

You're nobody.

He manages to evade the opening of a US consulate in East Jerusalem, skips American demands for a freeze, fights uncompromisingly in a wave of terrorism, adds money to the police and brings Israel's international status to unprecedented heights (all of the above, along with Lapid and Gantz), and yet it is not interesting at the moment nobody.

When he took office, Bennett did what an Israeli patriot was supposed to do: storm the state's burning problems.

Do not believe the crazy lies that you bibists sell you.

This government is improving the situation of Israel in all areas.

And no, it is not conducting political negotiations. And it will not evacuate settlements. And it will not change the Jewish identity of the state. Perhaps on the contrary.

If Netanyahu had been in Bennett's shoes, he would have already moved in with the Silmans (relax, along with the "lady").

When Netanyahu returned one day from an exhausting visit to Putin, he landed, gathered himself and his men and hurried to David Bitan's wedding.

Bennett neglected it all.

In more precise words, he chose the path of Shimrit Meir, his sharp and impressive political adviser, at the expense of the daily, Sisyphean and sweaty maintenance of the people with him.

He was not aware of the terrible suffering of good people like Idit Silman and Nir Orbach.

He did not understand that they needed support, support, hope, understanding that they had a future and a life.

He became addicted to the post of prime minister and simply fell asleep on guard.

He lost his dressing room.

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Addicted to the job and fell asleep on guard.

Bennett (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)

Wednesday's surprise at dawn, published in a resounding boom by Amit Segal, is somewhat reminiscent of the collapse of the concept in the Yom Kippur War (as opposed to 2,800 differences).

Here, too, the writing was on the wall, but Bennett did not see it.

As of this moment, the aneurysm has stopped.

Nir Orbach, Abir Kara and Ayelet Shaked do not have arteries.

It seems to me that they understand what Idit Silman will learn about her flesh later: Whoever does business with Netanyahu ends up without a wallet at the end (unlike Netanyahu, who comes to a deal without a wallet).

It is worth recalling today the contract that Netanyahu signed at the time with the late Rafi Eitan, the leader of the Pensioners' Party, according to which even if there are elections and the pensioners do not enter the Knesset, Eitan will be appointed minister in the new Netanyahu government.

Well, this government was formed in April 2009. Without Rafi Eitan.

Last night, a video of Silman's nightly meeting with Netanyahu from last night was leaked.

It took them several hours to sell it.

And that's when they still need her.

What will?

No one knows.

What is certain is that the atmosphere of mourning is superfluous, despair is foolish, defeatism is not a work plan.

The change government snatched a snooker night but nothing ended, quite the opposite.

It's just beginning.

This country is important out of its schizophrenia, defectors and instigators.

We have no other country and we have no privilege to give up.

Idit Silman's resignation from the coalition is not the end of the verse and is not a game changer, unless it is followed by others.

Will others come?

Hard to know.

Nir Orbach and Avir Kara are built stronger than Silman and it seems to me that they also know how to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

Ayelet Shaked is a separate story.

I'm having a hard time seeing her stab the last knife in Bennett's back.

"First we use, then we kick."

Silman (Photo: Reuven Castro, Reuven Castro)

I do not believe in the Ganz option.

He managed to correct his name once.

If he returns to the place of evil, there will be no more opportunity.

In the state of affairs, assuming that Gideon Saar knows how to guard his people (unlike Bennett, for example), the keychains are the Arabs.

Namely Ahmad Tibi.

His dilemma is not simple.

On the one hand, he wanted to pluck the feathers of Mansour Abbas and restore the crown to its former glory.

On the other hand, there is nothing he detests more than the combination of bibism and gvirism.

And what about the ultra-Orthodox?

Moshe Gafni and Yaakov, who murmured yesterday that the opposition should recover and form an alternative government at all costs, know that a right-wing government can be formed "on full", if the defendant wants to liberate the country and handle his legal affairs, which today seem more dangerous than ever.

Silman's move, whose official arguments are related to the counts of the "next world", proves a simple thing: the Israeli left is able to sit with the right, but the right is not able to sit with the left.

The statistics do not lie.

What happened to Silman and her family in the past year is like nothing.

Threats, curses, excommunication, boycotts, humiliations in the synagogue, shouting and cursing wherever they went.

As I understand it, there was also a family problem, with ultra-Orthodox relatives issuing an ultimatum.

So Silman's resilience, and especially Silman's husband, was crushed and gone.

If they were connected to the WhatsApp groups, they would find out the size of the bet: "We'll use first, then we'll kick," the new defection said today.

She became overnight from "Arab slave" to Queen Esther, but she may understand in her flesh that the sticky embrace that surrounds her now will fade the second she is no longer needed.

In the meantime, let's focus on the facts: From Shmulik Silman's remarks in a radio interview a few days ago, it can be understood that his wife's main concern is her right to the next world.

What remains is to ask the following questions: Will the fact that Rabbi David Satyu and rabbis of Zohar will be able to make strictly Orthodox conversions infringe on this right?

Or the fact that the corrupt and rotten kosher monopoly has been expropriated from the hands of the extreme minority in favor of kosher (strictly Orthodox) and competition?

Will the next world be hurt by the fact that the ultra-Orthodox stop poisoning their children with sugary drinks and save quite a bit of money thanks to the move to a dishwasher (and the state saves huge amounts of pollution)?

Will Nitzan Horowitz's letter that came after the High Court ruling and overall prevent searches at the entrance to the hospitals (something that has never been here) be the difference between hell and heaven? Where are tens of billions currently being invested?

The state never interested him.

Netanyahu (Photo: Reuven Castro)

You can continue this list indefinitely.

But this is a dialogue of the deaf.

The biblical cult of personality does not resort to means, does not acknowledge facts and crushes everything that happens in its path.

But even after we have said all this, we must remember: Netanyahu has not succeeded in reaching the majority required of him four times in a row.

Do you think he will come now?

In two of the three polls published yesterday, at the perfect time for Netanyahu, he does not have a majority.

On Tuesday he reached 60.

He came in in a similar situation to all the recent campaigns, and came out in a completely different situation.

Does our tormented and besieged country now need a fifth election?

of course not.

But the state has never been interested in Netanyahu.

The most likely scenario is a law to dissolve the Knesset and an election date.

I guess it will be in the range of four to six months.

All these months will pass when the prime minister is called Yair Lapid.

Therefore, everything is open and nothing is taken for granted.

We no longer have a state and we must not give up on Israeli democracy.

Anyone who wants the most sensitive decision-making process to return to the trusty hands of Sarah and Yair Netanyahu is welcome to give up.

Whoever is not, is called to the flag.

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