Back to Tyrol: The change government has rescued the country from chaos.
Now back to the poison machine
The past week has been full of embarrassing combos and unfounded proposals from Netanyahu's seminary, all with the aim of avoiding elections.
He may know something we do not, but to stop him once again, his opponents will have to make sure no voice is lost.
Ben Mercury
30/06/2022
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 07:30 Updated: Friday, 01 July 2022, 07:32
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At the expense of us all
In a parallel universe, the headlines today would have dealt with the Iranian issue.
In the brilliant victory of Israel and the Mossad over the Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian intelligence organizations.
In the blows the ayatollahs have received in recent months, described in an extensive article in the New York Times.
In the shaky Hollywood drama as part of it, close cooperation between us and the Turks prevented three Iranian death squads from murdering Israelis on Turkish soil.
In at least one case, the Israeli tourists were pulled out of the famous Istanbul market minutes before the Iranian agents' bullets reached them, with local assistance.
In a sane country, we would be discussing today the inconceivable quotes of the former Iranian vice president, who admits that the Israeli institution is simply dismantling the Revolutionary Guards and making senior members of this murderous regime sweat in their beds at night (these are my words).
And also the fact that the Israeli Mossad has officially informed Hussein Ta'ab, the head of the intelligence services of the Revolutionary Guards, the scariest man in Iran and the one behind all the terrorist attacks against us, that he is on target.
The message was sharp and clear: either you immediately stop the terrorist attacks against Israelis, or you retire, or you are history.
Yes, that's right.
Hussein Ta'ab is history.
Eventually, after the diligent and embarrassing Iranian failure, he was fired.
The two people responsible for ending his career met on Tuesday this week in what became, in retrospect, a farewell meeting for then-Prime Minister Bennett and top Mossad officials.
Allegedly, this was a meeting defined as a "situation assessment."
Bennett told the head of the Mossad, Dedi Barnea, and his staff that he was debating what to do next.
I can not get into Barnea's thoughts, but it seems to me that his rich experience in intelligence over the years has helped him understand that the prime minister has come to say goodbye.
He has barely a year in office, and has already replaced three prime ministers.
Two days later, the Likud conditioned the passage of the Metro Law on the cancellation of MK Amichai Shikli's resignation. No, the Likud did not demand more fuel, add money to hospitals, budget dormitories for battered women. There were those in the coalition who agreed.
This 'bleaching' will also be an encouragement to defect from parties the day after the election.
The opposition has been campaigning for the purchase of defectors and the coalition is unfortunately now giving it kosher.
New hope strongly opposes this! "
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Bennett and the head of the Mossad (Photo: Government Press Office, Haim Tzach)
Saar did not content himself with tweeting and also picked up a few phones.
The Likud's proposal was rejected.
Metro law fell.
The citizens of Israel will suffer.
Amichai Shikli, the one who preached outreach to moderate Israeli Arabs, the one who recommended appointing Mansour Abbas as regional cooperation minister, the one who announced, five minutes before he was overthrown, that he was behind Bennett "with all his might", would have to form a party and cross the blocking percentage.
They tried to save him, at the expense of us all.
And failed.
On Thursday afternoon, there were two Knesset members from the opposition in the Knesset plenum, and that too with difficulty.
The Likud, which has boycotted Knesset committees throughout the past year, has lost interest.
They prevented the passage of the Metro Law, they prevented the passage of visa waiver laws, they tortured and abused dozens of bereaved brothers and sisters, led by Eli Ben-Shem, who tried to convince Yoav Kish that the Bereaved Brothers Law should be above politics, and then they just disappeared.
On the agenda remained uninteresting laws such as the Equality Act for People with Disabilities, laws relating to child sexual abuse, the Omicron Compensation Act for Business (Knight Kara’s Baby) and the Bereaved Brothers Act.
Two Likud MKs were in the plenum.
In the guest podium in the plenary sat Eli Ben Shem, chairman of Yad Labanim. MK Shir told him that the journey of torment was about to end, the law would pass.
But Ben Shem did not believe.
After what he has been through in recent weeks in the face of the Likud's cynicism, he no longer believes in anything.
He stayed until he saw with his own eyes that the law had been passed.
Then he cried.
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Insolvency
The days before the dissolution of the Knesset were days of frantic, not to say hysterical, running in Netanyahu's Byzantine court.
On the night between Tuesday and Wednesday the drama reached a temporary climax.
Crazy proposals flowed in the direction of Bnei Gantz and Gideon Saar.
They were offered everything.
Ganz was invited to be prime minister in six months, only to give Netanyahu the next six months.
And then he will get another year!
Saar as above. And it was proposed to establish an "emergency government" for a year (led by Netanyahu) and all sorts of embarrassing combinations and unfounded proposals were proposed, just to cancel the election.
Why is Netanyahu so afraid of elections?
Maybe he knows something we do not.
Maybe he realizes this is the last round.
The rags of the ultra-Orthodox also have a limit at some point.
One way or another, the event ended in nothing and nothing.
No one believes Netanyahu's proposals.
Ganz and Saar realized he wanted to settle in Balfour to hold on, again, to the horns of the altar.
They know it's an exercise.
They know it's a scam.
Gantz's side enjoyed exhausting Netanyahu's side in this idle negotiation, using contacts who were actually straw men and dispersing psychological warfare.
Ra'am also received offers from the Likud. Pretend to be surprised. A detailed and surprising article in this regard was published on Channel 14 (!). I am told that Kobi Bornstein, the political correspondent who published it, said hello. At least for now.
My uncle Amsalem did not speak from the growls of his heart.
He knows the truth.
In response, the Likud claims that the proposals for the RAAM are solely related to the initiative to change the electoral system and move to direct elections for prime minister.
Why is he so afraid of elections?
Netanyahu (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman, Noam Moskowitz)
It must be understood: the Likud is striving to change the electoral system now, one minute before the election.
For those who do not understand, this is a constitutional change that is also a personal, retroactive law, intended for the needs of only one person.
And that's fine, of course.
But "defendant's laws" are a personal, retroactive, fundamentally invalid law.
Legal revolution!
Putsch!
These people are unable to see their own poison hump.
Remember Bezalel Smutrich, who claimed on the eve of the formation of the government that there was an alternative?
That there is a "full-fledged" right-wing government just waiting for Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked?
He refused to divulge details, but those around him told of two defectors from New Hope who agreed to join such a government if Lapid's mandate expired and returned to the Knesset.
Shaked examined these defectors directly, accepted denials and gave Bennett a "green light" to form the government.
So now, we come to the part where we talk about the middle ground.
This time, too, Smutrich argued that a narrow, right-wing government could be formed.
That argument.
Where are the renegades of new hope?
Where they were a year ago.
In Smutrich's feverish imagination.
And not just Smutrich.
The ultra-Orthodox have been pumping and spreading in recent days, over and over again, that there are defectors and a government headed by Netanyahu will be formed immediately.
They knowingly lied.
So are Netanyahu's people.
This is the chosen arm of the "poison machine".
MKs and elected officials who are not sick of anything, who are based on the culture of spin, pike and lie, just to please their master and mother (and her husband).
This incident, in which it again became clear that there were no defectors, proves in retrospect that Bennett and Shaked had no choice a year ago.
Every Israeli who loves his country would form the change government in their place because the alternative was terrible: a fifth election.
How a pity we got to it now.
The poison machine
This was a year of rescue for Israel.
The country emerged from the chaos and began to run.
Naftali Bennett made his predecessor a school for prime ministers.
He stopped the chaos with us and transferred it to Tehran.
He restored relations with America, with Jordan, with Turkey and with half the world.
This bizarre government, which contained eight parties and at least five defectors, has managed to do things that have not been done for years by its predecessors.
We talked about the budget.
We talked about closing a deficit of hundreds of billions.
On the erasure of unemployment as above. But also seemingly small things, like raising the retirement age for women, abolishing the designated bonds (huge reform of our pensions), budgeting hospitals, reducing regulation and bureaucracy, deciding to build 15 new settlements, import reform, Promoting open banking and dozens of other examples (thanks to Adrian Pilot who wrote extensively about it this week).
This government has introduced us to wonderful people.
The trio I discovered this year belong to religious Zionism (not of Smutrich, the original): Matan Kahana on the right, Yoaz Handel from New Hope and Chili Trooper Mish Atid.
If we add Elazar Stern to them we will get what religious Zionism was supposed to be from the dawn of the state's youth: a bridge of brotherhood, of sharing, of values.
This government has proven that even in the age of bibism it is possible to keep agreements.
Ideological opponents can be respected.
It is possible to unite on the basis of the common desire to work for our tormented state.
Opposite, now awaits a formidable, funded, cruel and powerful poison machine.
Readers of this column are familiar with its principle of operation.
This week we received, once again, a seemingly small, but refined, example of the damage of the Netanyahu era: last Sunday, Prime Minister Bennett posted a post in which he was seen standing next to a bearded guy, sitting in a wheelchair, shaking his hand.
This is Dror Kendelstein, an IDF invalid, one of the most severely wounded from the Second Lebanon War.
This was the attached text: "Nine hundred million shekels for the rehabilitation of IDF disabled people - was carried out.
Today we approved in the government the realization of the funds we allocated for the rehabilitation of IDF disabled people, as part of the 'One Soul' reform. As part of the reform in the Rehabilitation Division, bureaucratic and unnecessary criteria will be abolished,
We will continue to make sure that they receive the care and assistance they deserve.
Congratulations to Defense Minister Bnei Gantz and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman who worked to advance this important reform. "
No, I am not writing this story to show that in this government the Prime Minister is praising the ministers.
Stay with me.
A few words about the wounded man, Dror Kendelshane.
In 2016, the IDF Disabled People's Organization published this post, about Dror's rehabilitation: "The Warrior House in Ashdod will be Dror's home.
Kendelshain was 23, in his first reserve service when he was hit by shrapnel in the head.
Dror, a fighter in the patrol company in a combat engineering unit, was one of the two most severely wounded in the Second Lebanon War.
He was hospitalized for about 3 years, when for the first seven months he was completely unconscious.
"When he woke up, he could not do any physical action - just move his eyelids and nose. Today, ten years later and Dror still continues the long and arduous rehabilitation process - still in a wheelchair but talking freely and the function in one hand returned. One of the most important means in the rehabilitation process "It is a sporting activity and a place to go through the many treatments. The trips to the warrior's house in Tel Aviv from Moshav Mishar where he lives were impossible for Dror and his family because of his physical condition. The distance prevented him from undergoing the best rehabilitation.
" The Knesset, prepared at the request of MK Karin Elharar and after it was clarified that the organization's decision to establish the Warrior House in Ashdod is a proper and correct decision, we received another boost for the establishment of the Warrior House in Ashdod that will be a home for Dror and other fighters. You have moved and your and your family's tremendous contribution to the State of Israel. "
A day after the prime minister uploaded the picture with Kendelshine and the post about the reform in the rehabilitation of IDF disabled people, a man named Avi Saban (Sabag) posted an appropriate Zionist answer: he uploaded a picture of Bennett with Kendelshtein (with a blackened face) and wrote: "What do they have in common?
Two people unable to leave the chair!
Have a good week friends. "
Who is Avi Saban? My Twitter followers know him. An important screw in the poison machine and the biblical hatred. He is a veteran Likud activist who was behind many demonstrations for Netanyahu. An impressive selection of his videos awaits you online. On Wednesday this week, he released a video in which he details the "field headquarters" he is setting up for the Likud and the meetings he is holding at the fortress for this purpose.
What goes through the mind of an Israeli who jokes at the expense of the most severely wounded in the Second Lebanon War, a guy who struggled with severe paralysis all over his body, just to sting the prime minister?
Did the fact that he "dared" to be photographed with a prime minister condemn him in this way?
Do you imagine such an event a decade or two ago?
This is the most severe damage the Netanyahu family's years have inflicted on all of us.
On people on the right and left, religious and secular, Arabs and Jews, Ashkenazis and Sephardim.
I'm no longer really convinced that this damage is repairable.
The same poison machine that launches Orly Lev, with its operatives and megaphones, to stand under the house of the bereaved family of an IDF pilot who fell in the second Lebanon and to defile it all night. The same poison machine that persecuted Knesset members, their spouses, their children, wherever they turned: in the synagogue, in Bnei Akiva, in the neighborhood, at home. What about the impudence and audacity of the forehead that caused the Netanyahu family to leave the Promised Land, the possibility of continuing to drag the State of Israel towards doom.
Messiah on the back
One of the leaders of this poison machine, the man who leads the inner agitation with infinite sweetness, is Avishai Ben Haim.
At the time, in a casual and momentary flash of honesty, he announced that since Netanyahu had violated the agreement with Ganz and stung his partner, he himself would vote blue and white.
In the meantime, I guess, it's passed him by.
This week he participated in a mass show of misery along with all the other shofars.
He begged and bowed to Ganz to "take responsibility" and return to the crime scene.
That is, to re-believe the promises of the scorpion from Caesarea.
Here, verbatim, is a tweet from Avishai Ben Haim on this matter this week: "If a person stings you and tells you now take a million shekels. Half in cash instead of half and at the end of the deal. What do you mind taking? Anyway half a million (i.e. prime minister for a certain period) "You have. But he is trembling with fear that hegemony will crush him. Because hegemony is trembling with fear of reconciliation, because reconciliation may, God forbid, lead to equality."
How much nonsense, lies and malice in one Twitter tweet?
As much as necessary, and more.
First of all, pay attention to the language.
A real crime family.
You have been stung once, now you are offered half in cash in advance.
So take it!
Why not take it?
What about some moral principles?
What about a word that is a word?
Is this an agreement?
The ban on lying?
All this does not interest Ben Haim.
He has a Messiah on his back and he, his donkey, will do whatever it takes to bring him back to the monarchy.
For those who did not understand, Ben-Haim refers to a published proposal according to which Netanyahu offers Gantz to be "first in rotation."
From the leaders of the poison machine.
Ben Haim (Photo: Screenshot, Network 13)
But it does not end there.
Ganz, according to Ben-Haim, does not do the right thing (believe in Christ) only because "hegemony will crush him."
Well, for your information, Mr. Ben-Haim: the hegemony did not crush Gantz even when he did this nonsense for the first time.
I, for one, am a well-known and veteran bishop, plugged my nose, took an anti-nausea pill, and supported the course.
I did it because I believed it was good for the country.
By the way, in retrospect I was right, and Gantz was not punished.
He managed to recover somehow, even though he broke his only promise to his constituents, and remain defense minister and rake in eight seats and the hand is still outstretched.
The only hegemony that exists in your yard, Ben Haim, is the hegemony of falsehood, poison and vanity.
His tweet ends with the statement that "hegemony trembles for fear of reconciliation, because reconciliation may, God forbid, lead to equality."
So like this: the only thing that can promote equality in this country, is an inequality policy in education: tens of billions should be taken from the education budget and diverted to the periphery.
Education in the center of the country and in established cities should be greatly increased, and all the good teachers, laboratories and resources should be transferred to Yeruham, Shlomi, Netivot, Ofakim and Kiryat Shmona.
In this way, we will succeed in giving the children of the periphery the tools to reach 8200 and the Air Force and the Weizmann Institute and the Technion.
That's the only way.
Benjamin Netanyahu was prime minister for 15 years and did not think of doing so.
As it did not occur to him to make reforms in the judicial system.
Because Netanyahu thinks only of Netanyahu.
People of Hope
In order to stop Netanyahu once again, we must make sure that no voice from the camp of his opponents is lost.
You have to take a high ladder and a strong crane and lower Merav Michaeli from her tree of endless stubbornness.
Labor and Meretz should unite and beautiful one hour earlier.
There are no personal matters here, it is an existential struggle over the image of the state.
Ganz will try to unite with Saar and bring in Gadi Izenkot.
Ganz wants to arrive the day after the election with a double-digit number, which will give him the legitimacy needed to become prime minister (first in rotation).
Ganz will try to wink to the right.
Not sure Saar will flow with that.
The in-depth surveys to be conducted in the coming weeks will be decisive.
The (bitter) fate of Ayelet Shaked also depends on braking.
She is in an impossible situation.
She stood there, next to Bennett, all the way.
Contrary to estimates and rumors and slander, she did not defect or stab him in the back.
She warned him that the formation of a government could lead to political erasure, but remained there.
She deserves many points for that.
But now these points do not help.
It could lose from all directions: the fact that it does not disqualify Netanyahu will prevent the camp from just not Netanyahu approaching it.
The fact that she participated in the last government will stop the Likudniks from leaking in her direction.
Shaked is trying to portray himself as a UN during a world war between two powers. By and large, if she wants to lead right and does not pass the blocking percentage, this is bad news for Netanyahu. She has not yet made the final decision.
The beautiful face of religious Zionism.
Kahana (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman, Noam Moskowitz)
And one last word for Matan Kahana: Unlike Shaked, he did identify as someone who was not willing to sit under Netanyahu.
He experiences the horror up close and does not blink.
I pray that this impressive man will remain on the political map.
Had I been a party leader in the center, center-right or center-left, Kahana would have been the first name on my glittering transfer list.
A soul actor, a warrior in his soul, an impressive, determined and consistent man.
The beautiful face of religious Zionism.
The same is true of Joaz Handel.
Yesterday he managed to pass, on the buzzer, the Startup Law.
The law allows the entire communications market to move from licensing permits and reduces the amount of permits.
Huge savings in bureaucracy and an important economic push for a developing market.
At the same time, the ultra-Orthodox tried to assassinate Handel's cellular reform, which is supposed to rescue hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox consumers from a monopolistic cartel of rabbis.
This plot failed.
Handel was neither deterred nor afraid.
Not from the ultra-Orthodox, not from Netanyahu and not from everything in between.
These people are the hope of us all.
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