Whoever followed the discussion, saw a figure of a politician as if taken from other days. Shikli was harsh on Bennett, but brought to the Knesset a moral clarity we had not seen in a long time
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is the kind of hero who suffers from a lack of heroic deeds.
He's a fan of Major Roy Klein, and revealed it again when he said in interviews about four months ago, "I jumped on the grenade." Klein rose in the heavenly storm. I grew up on his character, "he said. And he is a fan of his fallen friend Emanuel Moreno.
As an officer, Bennett is a graduate of one of the worst periods in the history of the IDF. His well-known experiences are severe military frustration and escaping Hezbollah traps. This is for commanders whose leadership image was shaped in the small area of the Chinese farm in 1973, and who brought the traumas and helplessness of these battles to the days of their political leadership in the 1990s.
It seems that since the painful words hurled at him by the late Moreno's brother, Moshe, almost a year ago, Naftali Bennett has not heard such harsh words as those said by MK Amichai Shikli in the Knesset committee.
In the media, it is customary to moderate things when it comes to Bennett.
So the mildest sentence that Moshe Moreno slapped less than a year ago was: "He told me that Emanuel's picture is above his bed and that he is walking in his light. He did not do that ... Anyone who has not understood in the last three weeks we went back to '48 has a problem."
He also mentioned joining the Terrorists' Party.
Shikli was ruthless and precise: "Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked and those who followed them fatally and shamefully damaged this pillar, and the damage they caused to Israeli democracy will take a long time to repair. True, by nature politics is also a pragmatic arena that requires compromise, and can not stand One by one in all the commitments to the voter, but a horrific spectacle of such a sweeping and blatant violation of all the most important core commitments, which constitute the very ideological hazelnut of the right-wing party - is an unprecedented event in the annals of Israel. ".
Bennett arranged the stage for Shikli.
The audience, and many followed the committee discussion throughout the day, saw a figure as if taken from other days.
Not anachronistic, but in the sense of honesty, integrity, civic courage, precise effective formulations intertwined to the right degree in the pathos, and especially these were positions expressed in such a way that their authenticity could not be questioned.
They were convincing.
Shikli dragged to the Mishkan a guest who rarely gets there: moral clarity.
This stood out against the background of the blatant appearances of Minister Matan Kahana, an Air Force officer with the rank of Colonel (Res.) And of MK Ram Shefa.
But the main thing is the words of Shikli.
Such serious allegations in the political and moral spheres require a response.
Commentators would have been expected to erase Shikli by the usual means of annihilation in the form of "no one is caught in his grief";
But neither was it.
In Haaretz, Shikli belonged to the "I Deserve" party or was defined as a "martyr."
Tortured, but unanswered.
The influence that Bennett has in the Israeli media is inversely related to his influence in the public.
Support for him has dwindled since he became prime minister.
But the criticism is praiseworthy, as PR agents say in advertisements for another book that reads, "I looked Moshe Moshe in the eye."
At the beginning of the week, the founder of the "Mida" website, Dr. Ran Baretz, in a post he posted on Facebook, accused Bennett and Shaked of exerting pressure to close the funding of "Mida" and thus almost led to its closure. They will surely deny it. Ehud Barak is said to be imbued with a sense of superiority. But Barak won at least 26 seats for his party and defeated Netanyahu in a personal election. He tried to do significant things and failed. Only one success: a decisive suppression of the Arab riots in the north in early October 2000. This is also because of the willingness of Chief of Staff Alik Ron to take responsibility in the moment of truth.
Bennett's success is in operating the influential communication channels.
These help him put a wet blanket of repression on severe omissions that have cost the people of Israel human life.
Even the failed operation of the IDF in the month of the terrorist attacks, is becoming by publicists an exclusive failure of the IDF leadership.
The IDF, which hit Gaza hard last year, is portrayed as a body that prevents military retaliatory initiatives against Hamas or Hezbollah. R.M.
Bennett and Gantz are coming to terms with the blackmail of anti-Zionist parties, as MK Shikli said.
Politics of Influencers
According to the plan, Minister Lapid and Prime Minister Bennett were already supposed to disintegrate the national bloc at this stage. But in practice, this is a right that is crumbling
Shikli's declaration as a "retiree" was made as a technical matter, although he did not defect in order to receive an award.
This is a net forceful move, which indicates the failure of Bennett and Yair Lapid.
Lapid is leading a historic project and Bennett is his partner.
Is it a junior partner, or equal in strength?
The leader, however, is Torch.
In the past year he has told reporters that Bennett and he have been running together in the trenches since 2012. That is, even before the 2013 election.
Lapid's vision is not exactly the state of all its citizens.
But it is clear that his opposition to the law of Israel, the nation state of the Jewish people, an opposition that developed in the second half of the previous decade, is extremely significant;
It involves more of the American section in his vision.
He speaks the language of the State Department.
The confrontation with Israeli Arabs severely damaged the tribal theory of former President Rivlin.
This distorted and anti-Zionist doctrine was supposed to connect parts of the right to Lapid's project.
This is where Naftali Bennett comes in.
The right no longer expresses, according to this view, ideological principles and plans of national, security and economic interests;
The right has become a matter of identity politics.
They say: Paste is Bibi's hatred.
This is not true.
There is a vision.
Bibi hatred is a tool.
It is well-intentioned.
There were moments when Torch seemed close to realizing his vision on the political plane.
It happened in moments of crisis centered on the ultra-Orthodox.
For example, the railway works on Saturday.
Or the establishment of blue and white with Bnei Gantz and the chiefs of staff. 10 months after the formation of the government, Lapid's project seems stuck, if it does not fail. The one to blame for the failure is Benjamin Netanyahu. Believers in the Jewish state. The commentators call it "Gush Bibi". "Only not Bibi" versus "Only Bibi". Another way of distorting reality through toxic terminology. An anti-Zionist Arab party narrowly succeeded in forming a coalition, the so-called "tribal" coalition: the left-Ashkenazi-secular tribe, the settler tribe and the tribe of Israeli Arabs.
It was assumed that Bennett's leadership during his tenure as prime minister would grow as it did in the media in the days of "How to Beat an Epidemic", less than two years ago.
He should have been measured today for at least 15 or 20 seats.
With all the huge differences between them, one has to compare Bennett to Golda Meir to get proportions.
In the newspapers of the time, it was written about Golda that "she was not popular" and the politicians saw her as a woman who only knows how to hate.
"A few days before she reached the prime minister's throne, a public opinion poll was conducted on the candidates to succeed Levy Eshkol ... less than one percent ... they chose Golda Meir."
Then the change in its image took place.
"A few weeks after she took office ... 82 percent of the respondents supported Golda Meir. Almost overnight, she became the heroine of the people," this world wrote.
This powerful woman continued to lead the ball.
In May '73, after about four years as prime minister, she won the support of 73 percent of the public who wanted to continue her tenure.
She too was not elected, but the senior activists chose her as a compromise candidate.
The public does not recognize a leader in Naftali Bennett.
Bennett is an influencer.
This is a unique phenomenon in democracies, whose influencer comes to power when public and public opinion are not important to him.
Only the factors he marks for influence are important to him.
Yair Lapid is also stuck on 17 seats in the polls.
The Likud was to be a domain for a Mizrahi nature reserve.
Every so often someone shows up and marks in yellow liquid the area of fencing and no entry.
The last to do so was Shlomo Gronich.
The broad Pavlovian response to his remarks underscores the politics of marking and separation.
But the Likud, as the main axis of the state, exists and is suppressing Lapid and Bennett, who thought that Netanyahu should be overthrown first and then that we should purge the targets.
At this stage of their tenure, they were to not only increase their public support but also disintegrate the national bloc.
To uproot the ultra-Orthodox moon, or parts of it, and the great achievement was to be the uprooting of some retirees from the Likud itself.
According to the model of the Saar faction, which is based on defectors.
The opposite of course happened.
Bennett, Shaked and their faction disintegrated.
Polls show that the Likud has strengthened, beyond 35 seats.
And the personal support for Netanyahu as the most suitable prime minister is over 40 percent.
Despite the charges against him, he receives support and legitimacy from the public as he has received at only a few high points in the past.
Among the elite beacons
in Israel, there is less and less tide in the State of Israel, and perhaps doubts the justification for its existence, and respect is given to those who participate in propaganda against it
My surprise on Holocaust Day was the subject of prosecution proceedings and legal proceedings in West Germany against Nazi criminals.
It is not new that the Germans tried to evade as much as they could from the prosecution, and there were relatively few convictions and light sentences.
But in the movie "The Legacy of Fritz Bauer," which aired for the first time on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, something incredible turns out.
In trials beginning at the Auschwitz trial in 1964, defendants were tried under the Prussian Penal Code of 1870 for murder.
That is, it requires a specific single victim, a specific isolated incident, and proof that the defendant was a direct accomplice to the crime committed against the particular victim at a particular time and place.
The Germans, until the terrorist network affair of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, did not treat Holocaust crimes as mass murder that required a complex and ramified extermination machine, in which everyone involved was guilty of murder or aiding and abetting murder.
The whole of Nuremberg's conception of crimes against humanity or war crimes was not accepted in West Germany until about 20 years ago.
The legal system in Germany is so backward and cynical that it is difficult to explain the great admiration it receives from legal scholars in Israel.
Not to mention the German money invested in Israel for the purpose of teaching the Jewish natives a German thing or two about matters of justice, law, human rights and democracy.
The elites in Israel are less and less proud of the State of Israel, and may doubt the justification for its existence.
It is a fact that time and time again they pay homage to those who are involved in a propaganda attack against the state.
See the case of Prof. Goldreich, who donated the Israel Prize money to "Breaking the Silence."
The justification for the existence of Israel is that, as a state, it is the only framework that can ensure the existence of the Jewish people.
If of course you want its continued existence.
The dissolution of the state will expose the Jews to the danger of mass slaughter.
After its establishment, Israel did the unbelievable, with 650,000 residents of the locality absorbing within three years a refugee population three times larger than the locality of the colt.
Refugees from Arab countries and Europe became a society.
Society was democratic and became more and more democratic and pluralistic, which it was not in the beginning.
This is what makes Israel unique in the whole world.
Do not light a candle for her, but a huge beacon.
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