"They are my brothers."
This is how Itamar Ben Gvir responds every time he is asked in media interviews about the proud community.
With a sensitive and close-minded look, one that even hints at "how dare you think I would answer differently."
And this is how the debate ends.
Okay, Itamar, they are your brothers and you love them and hug them - and what next?
What about rights?
How will you vote in the Knesset for "your brothers"?
In most cases, Ben Gvir's approach to the Israeli mainstream is received with a bear hug.
The interviewer falls into the trap, there is no one who will not be surprised (happily, of course) when Ben Gvir expresses such liberal opinions.
But sometimes, a moment after they finish getting excited about his heartfelt show and letting him finish the sentence, Ben Gvir's true position on the proud community is revealed.
"I think it's awful and awful to make marches with underwear," he stressed in an interview with Amnon Levy on News 13 last week.
"They are my brothers" is the softened version of Ben Gvir.
No more "We reached the sergeant, we will also reach Rabin" and "Goldstein is my hero."
Itamar Ben Gvir Model 2022 is embracing and loving.
Kahana's student decided to present a Pike "unity" strategy, the one formulated before him by Naftali Bennett (and managed to remain "moderate" and form a government).
This is a trend that tries to obscure significant differences between us Israelis only to hide extreme agendas, from the heart of the extreme right and the extreme left into the Israeli mainstream.
The method that is anchored under the clichéd sentence: "In total we agree on 80 percent of things."
Itamar Ben Gvir is a very smart politician.
He knows that his political-security views have become a consensus, but his conservative-religious view weighs on him and distances him from potential voters.
He therefore turns to the liberal voter who is frustrated by the security situation, and thus actually gives him an answer.
When he, together with Smutrich, becomes a party with double-digit power and when he enters the government as a senior minister, the embrace will disappear, the discourse of unity will be forgotten, and the rights of the community will go to waste.
You can also give him credit.
He really is not "Itamar of age 15", as he likes to mention.
And yes, on the way to supporting the LGBT community, even if the smallest, one should first hear elected officials accept the community with respect and not try to deny it or despise it as was the case in the past.
But on the ground and in reality, the chairman of Jewish Power will not advance even one step the rights of the community - yes, even if he promises to "love and embrace them."
Make no mistake.
A white man has the right to be elected and the right to enter government - and even to realize some of his extremist agendas - as hard as it is to hear, it's the democratic game.
But Ben Gvir is trying to win power on the backs of voters who no longer believe in anyone else in politics.
Those who every other day would deny his opinions without thinking at all, but on difficult days find in him answers to problems that bother them in the country.
There are not many buyers for Ben Gvir's ideology, so he tries to sell it in a sale that cannot be refused.
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