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Opinion On the way to the polls: waking up from the summer slumber Israel today

2022-08-11T13:27:36.177Z


With necessary shields like Shikli and Hirsch, the list appearing in Likud represents the public, and is not made up of graduates of the various establishments


Inside a democracy mummified in formalin, signs of life suddenly appeared.

These were the primaries in Likud, which featured about 80,000 participants on a hot August day who are not ready to submit to the model of moderate, guided democracy of Rabbi Miara's legal adviser, Patrona Gideon Sa'ar, Benny Begin and Yair Lapid.

The most important people in Likud from now on are Yariv Levin, Yoav Galant, Yoav Kish, Amir Ohana, Nir Barkat, plus Amichai Shikli who will probably be reshuffled, and Galit Distel-Atbarian.

This is a list that is not ready to accept the use of the judicial system as a means of repression, as is happening right now when the prosecutor's office opens an investigation against Eli Tzipori for harassing a witness and against Michael Ben-Ari for incitement.

The attitude of the media over a long period of time towards the Likud expresses its attitude towards democracy itself.

Ongoing character assassination.

"The Likud is a wild movement," said Benny Begin in an interview, and this is how he referred to Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. Yes, first of all, this is a huge achievement for Netanyahu. To get such numbers to the polls in the middle of a hot day in August. These primaries must have finally woken up the voters And Likud activists are slumbering. There are reports of lively branches all over the country. Of a campaign that was conducted from house to house. The question mark is about the percentage of participation of about 60 percent plus or minus. Why did it stop there, like in 2019, assuming that this is the final figure? It is possible That the total number of about 140 thousand plus functionaries is a bit fake.

In any case, unlike the rigid and monotonous lead list of Yesh Atid, for example, in Likud you have to check what the positions of each candidate for the Knesset or the government are.

They have positions, they have plans.

The reporters and commentators in the mainstream media are not interested in this, and you see that the coverage is always like the description of election theater day at Blich High School.

Looking for the Bloomberg sausages and the deals, and only Hanan Crystal's voice is silent, but don't worry - there are other voices.

Now there is already a competition between Abramovich, Berkovic and Yahimovich and the commentators of the right - is the list sufficiently representative and beautiful, and has the Likud managed to hide the tail, the horns and the tails under a shiny suit.

The media and the legal system simply hate the most basic foundations of democracy, and the contemptuous racist statement of the son of the father of Likud, Benny Begin, testifies to this.

The significance of the composition of the first and second ten will depend on the achievement of the Likud in the elections themselves in early November.

If there is a decisive victory, with a majority for the right-wing government and Likud over 35 seats, Yoav Galant will be the Minister of Defense, and Benny Gantz, if he decides to join, will be content with the Ministry of Housing.

One of the hoped-for results in the elections is not only to push out the Lapid-Bennett coalition, but also to remove Benny Gantz from the security portfolio.

Gallant, even though he was a general and on the verge of becoming Chief of Staff, will not fulfill the role of Mr. Defense leading the security system to control the political system. He will also shake up the IDF.

There will be a fight between Barkat, Eli Cohen and Israel Katz over the treasury case.

Katz is a bulldozer of development and promotion of projects, including a regional transportation system, and he is a big believer in the arrangement with Hamas in Gaza centered on a floating port and the total disconnection of Gaza from Israel's support systems.

Barkat is more connected to the international system.

The Likud pledges to address the economic crisis centered on inflation and the cost of living.

This is Netanyahu's big problem.

Avi Dichter survived in a relatively high place.

He competes with Amir Ohana for the same slot - the question is whether they all have it.

Along with necessary armor additions such as Amichai Shikli and Gal Hirsch, the list is attractive, it represents the public and does not consist of graduates from the various establishments.


The real change in the equation

When the arrest of multiple terrorists puts entire areas of Israel on the defensive, and the discussion of his release is mentioned in the same breath as a ceasefire, a dangerous precedent is set

Praise for Operation "Dawn" stems from lowering the bar of expectations from the IDF and the intelligence, and from the desire to crown Yair Lapid as a security authority. Following the disengagement, in 2007, the Palestinians were able to fire Qassam rockets barely as far as Sderot. Still, those who were able to see the reality understood that Israel is in big trouble.

"Israeli defeat in Sderot", Zev Schiff titled one of his last articles before he died.

Schiff was the figure of an honest and authoritative military commentator.

"Even if we declare dozens of times that Hamas is under pressure and wants a cease-fire, it does not erase the fact that in the battle for Sderot Israel was actually defeated."

It was probably one of the first rounds.

15 years of "rounds", then there was no Iron Dome yet, and the terrorists were not able to put several million citizens into shelters and shelters.

"In this city, something has happened to Israel that hasn't happened to it since the War of Independence, if at all. The enemy is immobilizing an entire city," Schiff wrote in shock, "stopping its daily life."

He called what happened a "national disgrace", and instead of Israel transferring the war to the enemy's territory according to its combat theory, it was the enemy that transferred the war to its territory.

Today the public is being ignored in the elimination of the entire "chain of command" of the Islamic Jihad.

But the terrorists persisted in firing the rockets and missiles.

This means that as an Islamic Jihad organization it continued to function.

Israel had almost no effect on the shooting, which added several more days of paralysis and blockade to large areas of the country, in addition to the three days of curfew on roads and settlements before the assassination of the senior jihadist.

Air defense has improved.

Also the intelligence.

In this operation, Israel was able to quickly gather the unequivocal intelligence about the way in which civilians and children were killed due to the firing of stray rockets that landed in the Gaza Strip.

She benefited from sympathetic international media and diplomacy.

Everyone wants Yair Lapid to somehow manage to hold on to his position as Prime Minister, even after the November elections.

If there is a change in the equation, it is that even the arrest of a senior terrorist in Judea and Samaria could put entire regions of the country on the defensive.

The head of the council, Gadi Yarkoni, defined it the day before the operation as a "small victory of consciousness" for the terrorists that is better than risking human life.

But this is a very dangerous precedent.

And finally, the very introduction of the senior official whose arrest started the deterioration into the equation of the ceasefire, even if Israel does not intend to release him, was a mistake.

From now on, the terms of the negotiations on the return of bodies and civilians detained in Gaza were announced.

But what the Arabs realized following the round, apart from the IDF's amazing ability to spot-eliminate anyone who decides to mark it, is that Israel does not have the basic desire to use its forces to change the reality on the ground in a major operation to defeat the terrorist organizations. This leads to some kind of economic-political settlement. There is the idea of a floating port, a few kilometers from the shores of Gaza, and in addition to it a passenger terminal in Ramon that will serve the Palestinians. Much more significant if it will be used by the residents of Gaza and not necessarily the residents of Yosh.

This will be the way to completely disconnect the strip when Hamas lives with Israel in coexistence between enemies like Hezbollah in Lebanon.

A shot of encouragement

The FBI breaking into Trump's home may work in the former president's favor, because the right is convinced that this is a political persecution

According to one version, the Watergate affair that has haunted American politics since the summer of 1972 actually covered an effort by the Nixon administration to use the detective and intelligence agencies in the service of the government against political opponents and what they called "enemies from within".

Since the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in November 2016, these agencies seem to be mobilized in favor of a certain political party.

Trump accused this week that the law enforcement system in the US has become a political weapon in the hands of the Democrats. There is really no political leader who has been persecuted like Trump, not in the US.

Israel has one.

The various investigations surrounding what they tried to describe as Trump's cooperation with Russia did not turn up any proof.

In contrast, special prosecutor Durham's investigations revealed the connection between the FBI's investigations and Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters.

This matter did not become a criminal case, and Hunter Biden's computer was not really handled by law enforcement.

FBI agents in a raid on Trump's estate, photo: Reuters

That is why the right-wing in the US is convinced that the FBI's break-in at Trump's house in Florida was done as part of his political persecution. Among conservatives, the raid on the house is a severe, unprecedented shock. According to various sources, members of Trump's White House staff were in regular contact with the National Archives. More Therefore, the people at the archive had previously had access to the documents that the FBI seized there. The question is why the break-in was done with a search warrant (probably issued by a federal judge based on the testimony of FBI agents) and no demand was made to hand over the documents first.

Attorney Andrew Weissman, who was general counsel to the FBI and worked as part of Mueller's team on the "Russiagate" issue, said in an interview that there is little doubt that the person who ordered the raid on Trump was the Attorney General, Merrick Garland. He also admitted that the normal procedure is a warrant following documents and not a search warrant. But the reason a search was carried out is because the authorities do not trust Trump; according to their thinking, he would not cooperate but upload or destroy documents. But the crisis of trust on the part of the right in law enforcement is directly related to their lack of trust in Trump.

Trump in any case took control of the narrative, which looks very bad in terms of the democratic administration.

The well-known slogan "No one is above the law" serves political persecution.

There is a consensus that the act, which appears to be anti-democratic and denies Trump constitutional rights, will make him a martyr and help him politically.

The Republicans are sure that this is another attempt to prevent him from running for election in 2024.

Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo claims that if a proper explanation for the raid is not given, the story of the archive documents will only sabotage the January 6 investigation.

A demand for an immediate explanation from the Ministry of Justice was voiced by the former Vice President, Mike Pence.

Another worrying thing happened this week.

As part of a huge budget package to supposedly deal with climate change, a clause was inserted that effectively doubles the number of agents employed by the Income Tax Authority.

More than 90,000 people have been employed in this body to date.

Now they will increase the number by another 87 thousand.

It seems that the Democrats are trying to establish in America a regime of close control over the citizens, if you don't want to use the word "oppression".

The battle is over the mid-term elections in November.

The latest developments in Trump's case should instill a lot of motivation among Republican voters.

And they are before finishing

The work list conveys a lack of self-confidence.

When no one bothers to advertise the candidate in 10th place anymore, even Meretz looks more attractive

In the composition of the ten of the Labor Party, Naama Lazimi is marked.

You can also mark Ram Shefa.

But the meaning of the primary vote at work, apart from the fact that no one bothers to advertise the candidates beyond the tenth place, is a great lack of trust in the personalities that the party has sent to ministerial positions.

If Amr Bar-Lev, who is the Minister of Internal Security, and Nachman Shai, the Minister of the Diaspora, are far outside the realistic list, it means that the party does not believe in itself.

For Zimi, she is not a change maker.

She is a good MK in the composition of 15 MKs.

Add to Alia and Ram Shefa two personalities who are deterrents, Merav Michaeli and Gilad Karib - and you get the composition of the end of the road, and not in the good sense of the phrase.

The selected group looks like the standby class that will close the besta.

Meretz looks more attractive now.

Who remembers that in the past champions like Tal Russo and Eyal Ben-Reuven starred in the center of the work list, not to mention Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin.

As far as the national agenda is concerned - Karib, Michaeli and Maraena are simply terrifying.

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Source: israelhayom

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