"A man shouts what he lacks," wrote Meir Ariel.
"Does he lack sovereignty? Demonstrates sovereignty"
From Itamar Ben Gvir's reaction to the double attack in Jerusalem, one can get the impression that he is already deep within the coalition.
From Smotrich's reaction - it can be understood that he is far from there.
Ben Gabir arrived on the scene and behaved as if the appointment to Minister of Internal Security was already in his pocket;
The media also conducts itself accordingly - when Amer Bar-Lev arrives on the scene, reporters have to remind themselves that this is actually the minister of the BTP, after all, Ben Gabir has already received a briefing from the Commissioner, who apparently is also completely fine with the new appointment.
As the height of the intimidation - the width of the hug.
The scene of the Ramot attack, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
All the microphones in the arena were directed to Ben Gabir, who gave the correct statement on the spot - a required text, but words that the Israeli ear familiar with the clichés of attacks has not heard in many years.
Ben Gvir did not ask for restraint, did not incite the discussion to the identity of the killers, even though the reporters asked what was known about the threat, nor did he talk about the "Partner", but mentioned that the murder was the product of a chain of attacks that did not start today, and listed the previous stations of the current sequence - Ariel and Kiryat Arba.
Suddenly there is no separation between blood spilled in the "areas" and blood spilled in Jerusalem.
A green line and blood in red are not tools in ongoing political manipulation.
And how is it possible without rulers?
The last sentence in the orchestrated sync included this code word.
Ben Gabir at the scene of the attack in Jerusalem, photo: screenshot
In the wonderful and important film "The Informals" by Eliran Malka, a work based on the story of the establishment of the Shas movement, there is a scene in which Shuli Rand - apparently the leader of a Spanish ultra-Orthodox movement who worked hard to establish it - rehearses with himself in front of the mirror the moment when the vision will become He recites a small statement to the press, what he will say to Rafi Reshef when the real thing comes, how he will arrange the words in his mouth when he is required to address the situation after the elections.
Ben Gabir spoke a simple truth that the majority of the people believe in and the security forces are eager to realize, and I wondered if he also practiced the text like Shuli Rand in the movie, until it sounded like the real thing.
He does not shout, during the difficult years he learned how to conduct himself.
Now he harvests.
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"A man shouts what he lacks:
He lacks confidence - shouts confidence,
He lacks reciprocity - screams reciprocity"
Bezalel Smotrich, an intended coalition partner, responded to the attack by saying that the formation of the government must be hastened.
Smotrich is being lynched in the media by the party that has experienced the worst media lynching there is - the Likud.
We would think that this would cause a certain compassion, a desire not to send in a partner who was a complete Netanyahu supporter all along, but in Likud they insist on showing that the treatment Ayelet Shaked received was not unique - you can do Ayelet Shaked for Smotrich as well.
It is possible to do Ayelet Shaked also to Smotrich, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Perhaps if Smotrich had previously chosen a niche that no one wanted, such as the niche chosen by Ben Gabir, we would not have reached this situation.
As a paraphrase of the well-known proverb, it can be said that Ben Gvir does not enter the corners that Smotrich cannot get out of.
It is possible that if he had decided to brand himself as "Mr. Transport", as he succeeded in the past, he would have advanced publicly and politically;
And maybe not - Netanyahu is a political fox, and if he wanted to close a government it would already be closed.
But this is Netanyahu's pattern, and the right-wing bloc accepts his punishment.
They promised a right-wing government in full - did they mean in full the time it takes to establish it, lest there also be full of doubts?
Two possibilities: either Netanyahu does not like being the most left-wing figure in the coalition, and perhaps he is still fantasizing about a partnership with Gantz and is taking time to try to break the state camp into pieces that will complete him with a coalition with a less right-wing image;
Or is Smotrich the scapegoat on duty, the one Netanyahu will say on his behalf to the Likud people - I couldn't leave you anything, religious Zionism stole everything from me.
But in life itself it doesn't work.
The attack in Jerusalem and the abduction of the body that happened at the same time should bring the elected officials back to the ground of reality.
It is indeed either Smotrich or Gantz.
I don't like being the most left-wing figure in the coalition.
Netanyahu (archive), photo: Oren Ben Hakon
In Israel, an intifada is developing in practice, partly because the change government abandoned the Abraham Accords and searched the trash for remnants of Oslo.
Lapid and Gantz brought Abu Mazen back to the discussion table and to a public status that Netanyahu himself had minimized.
If Netanyahu wants to form a right-wing government that will fix the situation, he can.
between blood and blood
Sweet Aryeh Shchupek got up in the morning, scanned the CD and went to school, even though he didn't feel well.
At noon, father and mother buried him in the ground together with those who managed to organize themselves and come to this horrible funeral.
A day earlier, the young Druze Tiran Peru was kidnapped from the hospital, and his body was kept in Jenin for bargaining.
In Dalit al-Karmel, they decided they were not suckers, rioted in several locations, and the Palestinian Authority decided to intervene.
Miraculously, when Abu Mazen is interested, he presses the right points and the gates of Jenin are flexible.
The bodies of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul have been held captive by Hamas for more than eight years.
Imagine what would happen if in Corona Israel there was a gift of transferring vaccines to Gaza by returning their bodies to Israel.
More than Smotrich needs his presence in the government, Netanyahu needs it.
The voters are not interested in coalition games, they want a clear vision.
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