Responsibilities and reforms in the face of torture and evasion: on the abysmal difference between the Bennett-Lapid government and Netanyahu

Netanyahu's legacy in the Iranian sphere was a disaster.

The current government eats up the results, but manages to minimize damage.

And how ministers in the current government take responsibility even when they are not asked, in the face of the twists and turns of their counterparts in the Netanyahu government.

And what is the connection between the Bibists and the belief in salvation by aliens

Ben Mercury

27/05/2022

Friday, 27 May 2022, 00:23 Updated: 08:41

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He used his full weight in an effort to persuade Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal.

Benjamin Netanyahu in the discussion on the Alpine files, May 24, 2022 (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

Former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Tamir Heiman said this week (in an interview with Israel Today) that a return to the nuclear deal is a good option for Israel at this point in time. .

The IDF's intelligence department and the head of the Armed Forces, who is the "national assessor," believe so, not today.

The former head of the Armed Forces' research division and currently serving as head of the Defense Ministry's political-security division, Brigadier General (in reserve) Dror Shalom, said this week in talks in Washington (according to Barak Ravid) that the United States withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran Trump was a mistake.

Brigadier General Shalom served in the post when Benjamin Netanyahu used his full weight on Trump in an effort to persuade him to withdraw from the nuclear deal. Shalom warned Netanyahu in real time of making this mistake. Netanyahu heard and ignored. The warning was simple:

Are we convinced that the ayatollahs will collapse under the pressure of sanctions?

Are we convinced that the ayatollahs will crawl back into an improved nuclear deal?

And if all that does not happen, are we convinced that Trump will attack Iran?

The answer to these three questions was clear: no.

Only the Israelis remained in the game.

Hassan Sayed Khodai's Funeral, May 24, 2022 (Photo: Reuters)

That is exactly what happened.

We are now devouring the results of this tragic error.

Iran continues to shorten ranges on the way to the nuclear and there is no one to stop it.

Trump and Netanyahu are no more.

Iran, of course.

The Americans are not preparing to attack anyone, the Russians and Chinese are not flowing, the Europeans want an agreement.

Only those left in the game are the Israelis.

If the Iranians had still signed the agreement, which they strictly adhered to, they would not have been able to advance in the field of scoring material as they progressed.

In short, one of the most resounding omissions of recent times.

Not a widower in Israel: The Mossad has recently shifted gears.

The events attributed to Israel on Iran's soil in recent months are accumulating.

The daring is unprecedented.

By the way, the head of the Mossad, Dedi Barnea, does not share the assessment of the people of the Armed Forces. In Iran.

The opinion of Prime Minister Bennett, in the opinion of the head of the Barnea Mossad.

It seems to me that Gantz is more on the side of the Armed Forces. The chief of staff, Major General Aviv Kochavi, is somewhere in the middle.

He is now investing quite a bit of energy in rehabilitating the military option and even rebuilding it, after the criminal neglect of Netanyahu's years.

At the same time, the Ministry of Defense (with the help of many billions) fills the IDF's warehouses. Netanyahu's legacy in this area was nothing short of a disaster.

More on Walla!

Defense Department official to senior US officials: US withdrawal from nuclear deal with Iran was a mistake

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One thing needs to be clarified: Israel has no obligation to the United States not to undermine Iran's nuclear program, as published in several places. Yes, there is consideration for the fact that until recently sensitive negotiations were conducted between the parties.

Israel has tried not to poke a finger in the American eye, at least not publicly.

Beneath the surface, Israel's activity against the Iranian nuclear program continues all the time.

Convincing evidence was given this week, when unknown elements operated as armed UAVs that attacked an Iranian site in Perchin, where experiments are being carried out as part of the "weapons group" of the Iranian nuclear project. Israel has made it clear that it is not bound by any agreement.

Bottom line: At the top of Israel, there are disagreements between two opposing positions regarding the possible return to a nuclear agreement between Iran and the superpowers.

Israel is gearing up for the fight against Iran, both against the establishment and spread of terrorism and against the nuclear program.

Highlight: The success of convincing the Americans not to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations, a decision that currently thwarts the signing of a new nuclear deal.

This is a dramatic achievement of the Bennett-Lapid government achieved without drilling any stew and without destroying relations with the White House, but quite the opposite: relations are blooming more than ever and built on mutual trust.

Israel can also attribute the president's decision to keep the Revolutionary Guards on the terrorist list to its efforts.

The Mossad brought the findings of the interrogation of a senior Iranian official, who was arrested on Iranian soil (!!), interrogated on Iranian soil, recorded and admitted to an Iranian plot to carry out attacks against Western targets in Europe.

This information passed to the White House in real time and apparently tilted the spoon in the right direction.

No wonder Netanyahu recently abandoned his hollow criticism of the government's nuclear policy and ordered his shofars to spread panic on other issues (the "uprising" of Israeli Arabs is the new daemon.

So who misses Netanyahu?

Without a commission of inquiry.

The celebration in Meron, May 19, 2022 (Photo: TPS, Shira Hershkop)

In a nutshell

This week, former Minister of Religions Yaakov Avitan, a Shas member, appeared before the committee of inquiry into the disaster in Meron. As part of his job, he was, of course, in charge of the holy places. If he was indeed in charge of Meron.

"No one ever came and told me you were in charge," the in charge replied.

He then tried to place the responsibility on the CEO and spokesman in his office, who he said was "not told" he was in charge.

When Berliner asked what was the responsibility for the center of the holy places, he replied: "We are a conduit for the transfer of NIS 13 million."

When asked how, after all, he was involved in the revelry, he explained that "he demanded that there be lighting for the Moroccans as well."

He told of a yeshiva held in Meron and asked the organizers "why should not my father get lit?", Thereby demonstrating how much he had no responsibility or authority.

Fact!

Should he beg for the Moroccans to get ignited?

Another amazing moment occurred when one of the committee members asked him why he did not pass the materials required to be passed to the committee.

"My mobile device has been deleted," he replied.

Berliner: "You're the firm in charge of this, you have no record of what you did?".

Avitan: "Even if I documented, after being a minister, the miracle and wonder of all my device was deleted, something miraculous" (I would ask the guys at Calcalist to check if he also had some spyware installed, etc.). Berliner: "Do you feel responsible to such an extent or Other?

Avitan: "When a disaster happened, I stumbled upon it when I was a first-year singer. I do not argue with the Creator of the world. I always take responsibility. I asked myself if I could have been wrong, believe me if there was a pinch of something I felt I should have done, I would not sleep at night." (Quotes courtesy of Yael Friedson's Twitter account from Walla).

The one who replaced Avitan as Minister of Religions was Matan Kahana (right).

A day after Avitan's testimony in the commission of inquiry, Kahana (now the deputy minister) went to the Knesset rostrum.

He felt the need to give an account of the revelry that took place last week, a year after the disaster.

Kahana was responsible for the incident on behalf of the current government.

Actual steps in Meron can no longer be taken (one has to wait for the findings of the commission of inquiry), so the goal was to get through it safely.

Here is what Kahana said to the Knesset members: "In Meron's celebration this year we had two goals. The first and most important was zero deaths and injuries, the second goal was to produce a positive experience for everyone who comes. Was not good.When you can say that until Thursday at 14:00 in the afternoon we were reasonable minus and from that hour we just could not continue to meet the planned outline.

This is the end result and it is impossible to escape it. "

This is, in a nutshell, the huge difference between the current government and the one that preceded it.

On the one hand, a minister who performs spectacular spinning drills to escape responsibility and tries to overthrow her in every way, in front of him a public figure who takes responsibility without being asked, without burying 45 innocent Jews, without a commission of inquiry.

Just like that, he reports on what he did and what he did less, under his responsibility.

Can't remember what she did for the weaker sections.

Miri Regev in a discussion on the disaster in Meron, May 24, 2022 (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

Apologize to you

This difference can be seen in almost all other areas: the current finance minister who passes a budget, works hard on the next budget and does not go a week without a new reform on his table, in front of the previous finance minister who in his infinite audacity said yesterday on Radio 103 that he "did not pass state budget for political reasons" .

Political reasons, do you understand?

Next: Minister of Communications (Yoaz Handel) who recovers the post office, floods the country with optical fibers, cushions Judea and Samaria with optical fibers, frees the ultra-Orthodox from a cartel of predatory rabbis in cellphones and works for the citizens.

On the media ministers who preceded him, it is not worthwhile to expand the speech.

Next: Exactly a year ago, Jerusalem was bombed for the first time in our history by rocket terror organization. The Prime Minister ordered the cancellation of the flag parade, a few hours before he left. In Acre, exactly a year ago, there were horrific

lynchings

and gangs of looting Arabs raged in the street. Last Wednesday there was a parade of flags for the glory of the State of Israel.

"Bennett and Lapid are willing to do anything to survive in power," Netanyahu shouts with a hoarse throat, "and for this purpose they are paying huge sums of your money, taxpayers, haters of Israel and supporters of terrorism !!" I did something that no Israeli prime minister has done before, I passed Resolution 922 in the government,A decision to invest a huge sum of NIS 15 billion in Arab society and in Arab localities! "

In both cases it is a matter of "huge sums !!", in both cases the speaker is the same speaker, in both cases the money goes to the same destinations (the Arab citizens of Israel).

What is the difference?

Simple: the identity of the man who transfers the money.

When Netanyahu passes it on, it's okay, a reason for Israeli pride.

When Bennett and Lapid pass it on, it is a crime against humanity and a conspiracy against Zionism.

further.

Shall we compare the ministers of culture?

Hili Trooper and Miri Regev.

I wholeheartedly recommend accessing the Radio 103 app, for an interview given by Regev on Thursday to Sivan Cohen-Saban and Gideon Oko.

No, she clearly does not apologize for the horrific speech in which she stated that "she has no stomach aches" when it comes to battered women, rape victims, the disabled, warriors or whatever you say, the main thing is to return to power.

Apologize to you.

She scolded her interviewers for engaging in "consciousness engineering" by having her interviewed and she repeated the slogan that she, Netanyahu and the Likud are constantly working for the weaker sections.

The problem arose when she was asked to give examples of one thing she had done for the weaker sections.

one.

Even small.

She did not find.

When asked why she voted against the bill that would extend the time that rape victim kits would be held, she claimed she did not remember.

So remind her.

"You voted against this bill, which is so important to rape victims, in March of this year," Oko told her.

She still did not remember.

All she did there, except dig into her hollow slogans, was shame.

Even more than in that recording.

The unnecessary saga surrounding the "Dimensions for Education" law also reminded us this week of the alternative to the current government.

Yoav Kish climbed the tree, followed by Netanyahu.

They suffered from the kind of strategic blindness of the kind recently experienced by Vladimir Putin.

He thought Ukraine would fall as Crimea fell, as Georgia fell, as Chechnya fell.

He was wrong.

They too were wrong.

It was one lie too many.

The public understands not to fund the "dimensions for studies" 12 years and then demand 100% funding just to harass the government, it's Pike.

The Netanyahu government could have funded the plan in 2016, when it launched.

She preferred that the program continue to solicit money from donations.

The Bennett-Lapid government took up the gauntlet and decided to fund the share of donations (66%), with the last third of the fighters funding from the designated deposit.

This was also the recommendation of the professionals, in orderly staff work.

But then the Likud decided that "there is no abdominal pain" and that it should be overthrown, or trolled.

When told that overthrowing the law would cause harm to the fighters, they replied "when we come to power, we will return the money to the fighters retroactively".

This is not even a joke.

Someone tweeted this week that "the Likud for the residents of the Gaza Strip: when we return to power, we will retroactively return all the rockets and missiles that were not fired at you this year."

Yes, that too must be said: the Bennett-Lapid government has calmed the Gaza Strip and the Gaza Strip.

They stopped the suitcases of money, replaced them with aid flowing with more supervised tools, greatly intensified the reactions to each incendiary balloon on the one hand, and chipped Gaza into workers and economic issues on the other.

In the meantime, it's working.

A significant test will be on Sunday, at the flags parade.

Everyone understands that Netanyahu would have formed a government with a prime minister. Mansour Abbas after the election, April 1, 2021 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Test result

Let's talk about the ultra-Orthodox.

Quite a few voices are beginning to be heard there, against the current.

They begin to realize what a crazy journey the defendant has taken them on.

They are beginning to internalize the prices they have paid and will pay for selling their soul to the spawn box that is dragged after it everywhere.

MK Uri Maklev, for example, said in an interview with Ynet this week that it was clear that it was a mistake to violate the agreement with Bnei Gantz. This is the exact quote: "Of course, in the test of the result, this was a mistake.

The test of the result was supposed to be an election with a victory for Netanyahu's coalition that was supposed to form a government, and he was sure of that, but it did not happen.

It was a certain gamble, a certain line, a certain position, but in the test of the result this was a mistake, in fact the fact that he did not form a government and was in opposition. "

MK Uri Maklev. An ultra-Orthodox Jew, a religious man, a believer. Knows the Ten Commandments. , Not because it is forbidden to cheat, it is forbidden to sting, it is forbidden to leave the country without a budget, it is forbidden to take 9 million citizens hostage, but only for one reason: it fails the test of test. There was no mistake.

how sad.

He dismantled an entire country here.

He even turned the ultra-Orthodox into forceful crooks, horse thieves and swindlers at night, people whose lies were their art.

I remember that Aryeh Deri even gave a personal guarantee for the rotation between Ganz and Netanyahu.

We must not forget Netanyahu's speech, the "no tricks and no tricks" speech, in which he urges Gantz to deceive his constituents, violate his only word and promise, and form a rotating government to save the country.

Once Gantz was tempted, everything turned upside down.

Miri Regev announced that he was "not baked", the trumpets went out to the sword dance, the insult campaign was launched and the budget was not passed, so that it would be possible to overthrow the government without rotation.

I wonder what MK Maklev will say to the Creator of the world on Judgment Day, after 120 of course.

I ask myself how it can be that so many people do not see what every pair of human eyes should see and recognize immediately: the lie, the pike and the hollow messages of Benjamin Netanyahu.

How they look at numbers, results, events, all areas and issues, they know they are being cheated, they know that banknotes do not have any coverage, and yet they continue to cling to the leader.

After all, there is no one in Israel who does not know or understand that Netanyahu would have formed a government with Mansour Abbas if only he had been allowed to.

There is no one who does not know the billions that Netanyahu poured on the Arab sector and promised to pour on it in the last election campaign.

There is no one in Israel who does not know Netanyahu's defeat, his escape from Gaza, his defense of Hamas, his apology to Erdogan (who is now crawling before the Bennett-Lapid government), the folding of the magnetometers, the waiver of annexation, the release of thousands of prisoners and murderous terrorists, etc.

After all, no one does not know that the current government is not doing anything that its predecessor did not do and that it is, in many areas, much more security-minded and determined than it is.

How come so many people do not recognize Pike?

Illustration of a flying saucer over Jerusalem (Photo: ShutterStock, ImageBank4u)

In Dorothy's living room

I got a potential answer to this question in a fascinating book I recently finished reading, "The Bomber Gang."

This is World War II and a clash between the thesis of the Americans, who wanted to bomb the Germans and Japanese accurate, surgical day bombs (as much as possible then), on strategic targets that would shorten and end the war with minimal destruction and casualties, while the British advocated aggressive night bombings. Systematic, to break the spirit of the Germans.

This was understandable, given the fact that the British had absorbed these bombings from the hands of the Luftwaffe over London and many other cities and their motivation to preserve the lives of German citizens was minimal.

In this book there is a mention of a fascinating psychological phenomenon that a young statistician named Leon Festinger came up with.

He was working on a project for the Air Force, trying to find ways to select candidates for training as pilots.

In those terrible months (1942-1945) a pilot course in the U.S. or British Air Force was a death sentence with high certainty.

They flew to their deaths, in inconceivable quantities.

Years later, Festinger became one of the most famous social psychologists. The author of The Bomber Gang, Malcolm Gladwell, wonders if Festinger's experience in the Air Force motivated him to conduct his most famous post-war experiment in an analysis by an American cult called The Seekers in Chicago. He came to them following the question he asked himself even during the war: What happens to true believers when their beliefs meet reality and crash?

This is a true story.

Be with me for a moment: The leader of the "Seekers" was Dorothy Martin, who claimed that she was communicating with a group of aliens who were nicknamed "The Guards".

They told her, she said, that the world would be destroyed in a flood on December 21, 1954. But a few days before the apocalypse, a flying saucer would arrive and save her and her followers.

The plate will land in her backyard.

In preparation for this moment, her followers resigned from their jobs, left their families and handed over their property.

They were collected at the home of Martin Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago.

Martin initially said the flying saucer was due to arrive on Dec. 17 at 4 p.m.

But the aliens did not arrive.

Then, at midnight, Martin said she had received a new message that the plate was on its way.

She did not come at all.

Then she said the aliens had given her a new date: midnight on December 21, just before the apocalypse.

Then the seekers gathered again in the living room.

And waited.

And waited.

Festinger was there watching the event.

He recalled that "we were naturally convinced that their prophecy would not come true. That is, we were faced with a bunch of people who were committed to a particular prophecy, and they were definitely committed. People resigned from work, sold things. They prepared for catastrophe, for their personal redemption."

The following passage is quoted from Festinger's book ("When Prophecy Fails"): "Suppose a person believes in something with all his heart; and suppose he has a commitment to that belief, because he took irreversible steps. What will happen then?

Festinger received permission from Dorothy Martin to observe her and the "seekers" while they waited.

He describes what happened there: "When ... the clock on the mantelpiece showed that there was only a minute left until the moment the plate landed, Dorothy exclaimed in a high, taut voice: 'No plan deviated from its path!'. Painfully, in the muffled anticipation. The believers sat still ... Midnight passed and nothing happened ... But in the reactions of the people in that room there was almost nothing to see. There was no speech, no voices. People sat motionless, their faces frozen. And expressionless. "

It lasted for hours.

They have slowly adapted to the fact that there is no flying saucer and no aliens.

But did the "refutation" of the faith cause them to abandon it?

No.

At 4:45 that morning, Martin announced that she had received another message.

Thanks to the steadfast faith of the seekers, she told her followers, God has annihilated the destruction of the world.

Festinger concluded from all this that "the more we invest in a belief system, the more we sacrifice in the service of that belief, the more we become immune to the evidence that points to our mistake. We will not give up and be fortified."

If this sounds familiar to you, you're not an alien, you're right.

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