Capturing with smiles - and falling into the trap: this is how Itamar Ben Gvir raises his racist ideology from you

On Ben Gvir's path to the Israeli "Main Stream", there are those who do everything to train him - Netanyahu hugs him, journalists hug him, and videos in which he announces that he continues Kahana's path have been removed from YouTube.

To understand how dangerous it is, one does not have to go back to "Shula Garden"

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30/06/2022

Thursday, 30 June 2022, 21:37 Updated: 22:45

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The happiest MK from the Diaspora is Itamar Ben Gvir, because according to the polls during the last term he gained popularity and managed to reach additional audiences, both in the ultra-Orthodox sector and in the secular sector.

This article is for those new audiences.

Many and good of you are filtering for yourself now: "Oh really, he does not understand that such articles do not only increase the power of Ben Gvir"?

The answer is that I do not know whether or not, really not sure, but even if so, what is the option?

shut up?

It seems to me that history has whispered to us that it is better not to start with "Shula Garden," in which Ben Gvir probably spent part of his childhood.

This week I listened to an interview held for him at the GLC with the presenter Yaron Wilensky. At one point in the interview, Wilensky wondered to Ben Gvir if it made sense to him that an extremist like him sat in the Israeli government. "I am an extremist"? An extremist? "Wilenski replied:" In your opinions, in relation to the Arabs. "

Hearing Wilenski's plight in finding examples of Ben - Gvir's extremism, I stopped my car on the side to help him and those who came up to broadcast the same smiling politician with Baby Pace, the journalist's favorite.

I tweeted a few examples for the sake of illustration:

1. Ben Gvir said he was following in the footsteps of Meir Kahana, the same racist who published a recommended list of laws reminiscent of laws from extremist racist regimes.

2. Ben Gvir was an active participant in the incitement before Rabin's assassination and celebrated after his assassination.

3. Ben Gvir for many years hung in the living room of his house a picture of the despicable worshiper of the worshipers, Baruch Goldstein.

4. Ben Gvir organized youth camps in which he trained them on how to deal with the GSS.

5. Ben Gvir was convicted of inciting racism, supporting a terrorist organization, possessing propaganda material for a terrorist organization and more.

Ben Gvir was quick to respond with the following interesting tweet: "Congratulations you are boring us. Can't wait for an investigation into 'Shula Garden'", he intends to say: Troubleshoot like you, you are going to my distant past as a reckless teenager, today I am a mature and moderate politician.

Indeed, in recent interviews, Ben Gvir is careful to say that he does not follow in the footsteps of Rabbi Kahana, who, although "Rabbi Kahana was a holy man," does not follow in his footsteps.

Captures with a smile - and traps.

Ben Gvir (Photo: Reuven Castro)

When I watched one of these interviews I was amazed because I had a vivid memory in my head of opposite things that Ben Gvir carried in remembrance of Rabbi Kahana in recent years, not really in "Shula Garden", where, behind him hangs a poster with the iconic slogan: "Kahana Tzedek", he explicitly says he And his movement, "Jewish Power," Kahana's successors.

I googled and did not find, and when I got to an old link to the video in question, it turned out that it had been removed from YouTube - I wonder why.

Here it is worth mentioning that the issue of the continuation of Rabbi Kahana's path, yes or no, is not only a political-image issue, but also a legal issue.

Such a movement, as will be recalled, was excluded from Israeli law.

Ben Gvir has previously succeeded in convincing the Central Election Commission and the Supreme Court that he is not following in the footsteps of Rabbi Kahana, unlike his ideological twins, Michael Ben-Ari and Baruch Marzel, who were disqualified from running in the Knesset.

The truth is that Ben-Ari and Marzel do not differ in their worldviews from Ben-Gvir, but were simply not blessed with his sweetened rhetorical skills and his marvelous ability to make excellent connections with journalists.

Allegedly, the video in which Gvir is heard saying that he is following in the footsteps of Rabbi Kahana is incriminating evidence.

So where is he?

Luckily, a good friend saved this video in real time and sent it to me yesterday.

And so Ben Gvir says of Kahana Kahai Lishna: "A prophet was in our city, a leader was in our land, we continue on his way."

These things were not said in "Shula Garden," but rather in recent years.

So what exactly is Ben Gvir going on?

What is the same prophetic vision that Ben Gvir wants to fulfill as a follower of Kahana?

The answer to this can be found in another video, which was also, in the act of the devil, removed from YouTube.

The speaker this time is the holy prophet (in the words of Ben Gvir), Meir Kahana: "There is a complete contrast," Kahana explained in the 1980s in a relatively moderate text.

"Between Western democracy and Zionism. I am in favor of democracy for every Jew, but not for the Arabs. The only solution is Arabs for Arabs, Jews for Zion."

His movement was outlawed.

Meir Kahana (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Ben Gvir knows that such videos can be pulled out from time to time, so he said in one of his interviews that "I am not verbatim with all the words of Kahana, who was a holy rabbi."

This is an interesting statement by Ben Gvir, but raises questions.

Just for the sake of illustration, imagine yourself saying that I'm a fan of any mass murderer, and even hanging a picture of him in my living room.

To the guests at the salon I will explain that I love this man, and even admire him, but do not agree with the fact that he murdered 29 people, while spraying them on the back while praying in the mosque.

Doesn't really make sense, does it?

Oops, with Ben Gvir, yes.

And no, he did not do that in Gan Shula either, unless he remained in her kindergarten until the age of 44. Ben Gvir removed the picture of the despicable killer Baruch Goldstein from his living room only after Naftali Bennett mentioned this abomination two years ago while the possibility of merging Right-wing parties.

On the other hand, maybe at age 30 Ben Gvir was still in kindergarten?

When the then prime minister, Ariel Sharon, suffered a stroke in 2006 from which he did not recover until his death, the Kahanists, led by Ben Gvir, invited journalists to reveal to them the celebrations they were holding on the occasion of Sharon's stroke.

One of the celebrants said: "Sharon needed a good doctor, and today is exactly Dr. Baruch Goldstein's birthday," and Ben Gvir added while making skewers on the fire:

We hope that this will send a message to anyone who wants to harm the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel is stronger than everyone else. "

Dear soldiers who will vote in November for the first time, please note that Sharon was a very controversial politician, and the Knesset also published many investigations about him. , On the other hand, who asks for your vote, never wore the uniform you wear, simply because he did not serve in the IDF - was more urgent for him to organize camps for the boys, in which he explained how to outwit the evil Israeli security forces, God forbid, the boys, Will be caught by them during riots.

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Reached the Israeli "Main Stream".

Ben Gvir (Photo: Reuven Castro)

But not only the death of Sharon Ben Gvir, but also the death of the chief of staff of the Six Day War, Yitzhak Rabin, during which Jerusalem was liberated and the West Bank occupied. True, Rabin as prime minister wanted to return some of these territories under controversial agreements, Ben Gvir has an honorable share in the incitement that preceded that assassination, he was the one who held the emblem of Rabin's car, and without shame declared in the media that as he reached the emblem, he and his friends could also reach Rabin himself.

Ben Gvir's path to the Israeli "Main Stream" passes through Likud politicians who recognize the winds of the hour, such as the embarrassed MK Katz, who has already compared Ben Gvir to Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir. Oh, dressed. Delivering speeches. Katz and his friends have nothing left of Menachem Begin's legacy, of the Betar dust. I doubt that contrary to his promises, if he had to, he would also give him a senior performance portfolio in government if he set it up.

And one last word in favor of many of the likely respondents to this article, those who often protest that writers like me do not immediately parallel Ben Gvir to the other end of parliament - the joint list.

Once and for all, Ayman Odeh, Sami Shehadeh and Ahmad Tibi do not, in my opinion, threaten the Zionist project, simply because they do not pretend to represent Zionist values.

As long as they represented enemy positions, in any case the Zionist majority will face them with great confidence, and as long as they represent the interests of the Arab minority, the Zionist majority will be very happy about it.

It is clear that I expect them, as all Knesset members, to be law-abiding.

Therefore, when he was still physically assaulting Ben Gvir, I wrote that he should flee the Knesset.

Therefore, every Knesset member who publicly encourages an armed struggle against Israel must flee the Knesset and stand trial.

Meanwhile, none of the incumbent Arab Knesset members carry security criminal convictions as Ben Gvir carries.

In any case, the Arab Knesset members do not represent and do not pretend to represent the audience I targeted in this specific article - Zionist Israelis.

Ben Gvir claims to be like that, and as such he threatens the ethos we all grew up on, the values ​​of the Declaration of Independence, the Begin legacy, the Ben Gurion legacy, and also the moderation preached to it by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

Do not sit with Ben Gvir's smiles.

He's just kidding you, because he sees you fall into his trap.

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