wanted to light up the area.
Ben Gvir ascends the Temple Mount, August 7, 2022 (Photo: Flash 90, Olivier Fitussi)
This week it was announced that Itamar Ben Gvir agreed with the Likud that he would continue to climb the Temple Mount even after he was appointed Minister of Internal Security.
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But in this summary there are also small letters.
According to the publication (here 11), it was clarified that Ben Gvir would coordinate the ascents to the mountain with the police, would not surprise them, and would not publicly announce his expected ascent to the mountain in advance, but only after it.
It could have been easily phrased like this: to this day he went up to the Temple Mount at the front door.
From now on, he will sneak up on him at the back door.
To this day, he informed the whole world in advance, defied, agitated, bombed, posed for pictures and ignored the rest of the world (live, of course).
From now on, he will do everything quietly.
like a thief in the night
Will rise, fall and only then will he announce.
One of the most effective slogans of Otzma Yehudit in the elections was to show the Arabs "who is the owner here".
Well, the incoming Minister of Internal Security will show the Arabs that they are the owners of the house while he is an uninvited guest who entered through the back door and quietly, so as not to upset the neighbors.
This hanging proves that until today, Ben Gvir did not go up to the Temple Mount as a religious, spiritual or divine commandment.
He rose as a nationalist imperative.
He wanted to light up the area.
Netanyahu himself, in his own voice, said this a year and a half ago.
If Ben Gvir had wanted to bask in the holiness on the mountain, he would have done it quietly and modestly.
Zero, he did it with noise and commotion.
But life is funny and Ben Gavir has changed his role.
He is no longer the pyromaniac.
He is the fireman.
We will see how he will combine the role of the neighborhood brat with the responsible adult.
From now on, he doesn't just have to break the order, he is also in charge of maintaining order.
Good luck to him (and us).
Ben Gvir was early to arrive.
The scene of the attack in Jerusalem, November 23, 2022 (Photo: Reuters)
On Wednesday he was early to arrive at the site of the attack in Jerusalem.
Amr Bar Lev, the incumbent BTP minister, arrived only after him. Anyone looking for a similarity between his dancing on the blood at previous attack sites (before the elections) and the measured and (relatively) restrained performance this time will not find it. He even announced that he would not answer questions (although he did not succeed He had no answers and no solutions. He came from the force of inertia and perhaps also because of the criticism that he "skipped" the previous attack, in Ariel. He knows that this will all be his. Very soon there will be a shortage of excuses and a list of culprits Yazel. From now on, it's on him.
Let's review what he said there, next to the bombed tram: he listed the latest chain of attacks (Ariel, Kiryat Arba, the tram, Jenin) and attributed the fact that we don't have dozens of casualties to a "miracle".
He said 3 times that it is necessary to "take a price" from terrorism.
Then, he dropped the bombshell: "We need to renew targeted countermeasures!", he announced loudly.
Moreover, he said, "We also need to stop the racketeering in the prisons, stop the payments to the Terrorist Support Authority, check where the terrorists are coming from, reach that village, whether it is within the boundaries of the small state of Israel or whether it is in Judea and Samaria, impose a curfew, return the Deterrence and governance."
Now we will analyze the text.
First, we will discuss the "miracle" thanks to which, according to Ben Gvir, we have not had dozens of Israelis killed here recently.
I suppose the courage, sacrifice, dedication, creativity and technological superiority of the Shin Bet, the IDF, the Amman, the IMM, the Mageb and the police call Ben Gabir a miracle. This reminds me of what one of the rabbis of Safed said to the commander of the Palm H. Yigal Alon (Google it, this is a leftist) after the end of the War of Independence: "Know you," said the rabbi, "that Safed was saved thanks to two things: the act and the miracle. What was the act? That the people of Safed said Psalms. And what was the miracle? That the Palmach arrived ".
No need to practice anymore.
The IDF operates in Jenin (photo: IDF spokesperson)
I assume that Ben Gvir, who did not serve in the IDF (he actually wanted to, the army wanted less), will soon realize that we need miracles when the system fails. Such was the situation on Wednesday. A rare breach in the intelligence system of the Shin Bet and Amman caught us by surprise. Such, what's left is to pray for a miracle. But a miracle didn't happen to us. The terrorists managed to detonate two explosive devices and kill 16-year-old Aryeh Shchoupek. Another wounded person is defined as critical. Yes, you can't demand 100 percent success from the security system. There is no such animal. No country has capabilities that resemble what was developed here by our best sons and daughters and their best minds.
But it is also missed from time to time.
It is not recommended to underestimate the fact that the other side studies the map, knows the radar, learns lessons and looks for loopholes.
In short, we did not receive the mercy of heaven this time.
We will continue with Ben Gvir's words: "To exact a price from terrorism", he repeated.
I assume that in addition to the position, he will receive the number of Palestinian deaths since the beginning of the events.
and the number of injured.
and the number of detainees.
He will also get an idea of the unimaginable scope of the IDF and Shin Bet activities in the centers of violence.
He will be impressed by the fact that the IDF no longer need to train, because they train "hot" in Jenin and Nablus and will soon pay property taxes there as well, and by the fact that all the elite units of the IDF spend every night in the murderers' nests.
In the Kasbahs, in the refugee camps, in the alleys and in the dungeons.
They do holy work there.
There is no limit on them.
Everything that needs to be done, they do.
A scooter that explodes in the middle of the night is targeted countermeasures.
The elimination of a Gov Aryot operative in Nablus, October 23, 2022 (Photo: Reuters)
So we came to Ben Gvir's headline from Wednesday morning: "Renew the targeted countermeasures".
That's what he demanded there, for the blood.
Not only Ben Gvir, also Bat Gvir, his wife Ayala, said this this week on some radio.
They are probably compatible with each other.
They are less aligned with reality.
When he studies the issue, he will find that the Lapid-Bennett government has already renewed the policy of targeted countermeasures.
In Gaza, in the "Dawn" operation, it worked perfectly.
But not only there.
Some of the Lions Den seniors were eliminated in a targeted attack.
A scooter that explodes on you in the middle of the night, for example, is targeted countermeasures.
I estimate that in Ben Gvir's first meeting with Shin Bet chief Ronan Bar (I was ready to be a fly in the soup of these two) he will understand that in Judea and Samaria there is no real operational need for targeted countermeasures. This is an unnecessary weight. the terrorist, so they have to thwart him.
In Judea and Samaria if there is intelligence, the Shin Bet and the IDF know how to pull out the terrorists surgically, easily and quickly.
It brings valuable intelligence, it doesn't cause environmental damage, it doesn't kill civilians and it doesn't get us into trouble with international courts (we'll get back to that soon).
If there is no intelligence, no targeted countermeasures will help.
And in any case, the armed UAVs are already sailing in the skies of Yosh.
Whoever joins in kidnapping from them, will kidnap.
Not passwords, but bombs.
Not words, actions.
Ben Gabir concluded his words with this speech: "We also need to stop the scams in the prisons, stop the payments to the Terrorist Support Authority, check where the terrorists are coming from, reach that village, whether it is within the borders of the small State of Israel or whether it is in Judea and Samaria, impose a curfew , to bring back deterrence and governance."
Bravo, Ben Gvir.
We will see you make a difference in the security prisons.
It is recommended that you check why Netanyahu's cabinet did not even discuss the conclusions of the Ketbi committee, which recommended a significant change in the conditions of the terrorists' imprisonment.
If you manage to touch this, without causing environmental damage that will be much greater than the benefit, you will receive returns from all of us.
Regarding everything else: everything happens in the field.
Our forces reach every village from which murders come out.
When you talk, they work.
The poison is the same poison.
Bezalel Smotrich at the swearing in of the 25th Knesset, November 15, 2022 (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Ben Gabir's stepbrother, the former partner of Bezalel Smotrich, is now learning, firsthand, the taste of the Bibiist poison machine.
This is his second time.
For the first time it was Smotrich who personally prevented Netanyahu from forming his sixth government with the participation of Mansur Abbas.
It happened 19 months ago in total.
Today, he is personally delaying the establishment of the sixth Netanyahu government because of some unresolved matters.
It is called ideology, but the Bibists (and those who send them) do not know this word.
Even if they accidentally settle on an ideology, they will not recognize it.
One way or another, the experience has not changed: the machine is the same machine, the poison is the same poison.
It's the same tune again, at the same volume, with the same exciting alternamanic vocabulary.
This is how Smotrich turned from a "hearth" to a "trash" in half a minute.
That's how worldly nausea passes.
The human filth machines equipped with thundering megaphones are already horrifying all over the web with threats and insults towards him.
"Bezalel Bennett", the chief gadfan called him on his radio show this week, while completely ignoring the fact that only thanks to "Bezalel Bennett", Bibi should not now be called "Netanyahu Bennett".
What did Smotrich sin?
In that he has an ideology.
It is extreme, dangerous, belligerent, racist and disastrous.
But it is an ideology.
I estimate that Smotrich would not have voted in favor of secession even once (not least 4 times), would not have released 1,047 murderers in exchange for one soldier, would not have returned Hebron, would not have apologized to Erdogan and paid him reparations, would not have frozen the settlement, He would not have folded the magnetometers, he would not have formed a government with Livni, Barak, Lapid and Kahlon and he would not have gone to Wei Plantschein or the White House and he would not even have found a "friend" there named Yasser Arafat.
Such is Smotrich and now he realizes that (also) he is a leftist who collaborates with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Bibists are in for a surprise.
They believe, to their disbelief, that this is another defrauded baker's boy or an exploited settler.
They believe that soon he too will pull out a guitar and sing "Jerusalem of Gold", while Netanyahu pulls out the straw and empties it of its contents.
They will find out that this little hooded boy is holding a big sprout in his hand.
The reddest rag of the BDS.
Smotrich in the celebrations after the elections (Photo: TPS, Ehud Amithon)
It is not that Smotrich's demands are not fundamentally unreasonable.
He refers to the State of Israel as a failed startup, one minute before closing.
You have to load as much as possible.
He wants to dismantle offices from their assets, change orders, shuffle the cards and deal them out again.
It doesn't work that way.
The Ministry of Defense without the Civil Administration is like a car without a wheel.
It is impossible to exercise the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense without the Civil Administration.
The ability to perform the tasks of the Civil Administration is in the Ministry of Defense, now it is trying to displace from that performance, the ability to manage.
If he tries to extract money from the Netanyahu family, it will be easier for him.
It's Tirolol on steroids.
A little more crazy is the idea of giving him the wing of the war on the delegitimization of Israel.
A wing that was pulled from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the phase of its accelerated dissolution (under Netanyahu), and returned there by the change government. To give Smotrich the responsibility for the war on the delegitimization of Israel in the world? After all, Smotrich is the red rag of the BDS. Almost in every The world (except in Pyongyang and some evangelical cities) sees Smotrich as the symbol of racism and Jewish supremacy, settler rapacity, apartheid and occupation. So he needs to deal with it? What's the next step? Vladimir Putin's appointment as chairman of the UN Human Rights Commission? Let Does Torah Judaism have the Ministry for Social Equality? Is there no limit?
Wait, what a passage: Torah Judaism really demands (and will certainly receive) the file for social equality (even though this party is forbidden to include women, it has no LGBT people, and in its educational institutions there are almost no female students of Sephardic or Ethiopian origin). So sorry, I apologize for Everything. Give Smotrich what he asks for. He also wants the state-religious education administration. Why? To complete the dismantling of the state education system in Israel into its components. All this for nothing? Because we were privileged to live in a rare time when a divine revelation created a window of opportunity in which they gathered How many different interests for one formidable arm: the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox want the money, Shas wants the money and the cancellation of Deri's scandal, religious Zionism wants money and chaos, the Likudniks want money, honor and power and Netanyahu?
He, poor thing, only wants to escape the horror of judgment.
Ha bah hang up.
The end of the honeymoon.
Yair Lapid at the United Nations, September 22, 2022 (Photo: Reuters)
Black swallows
The tenure of the extreme right-wing, conservative and predatory government that will be established here will be interesting.
In matters of foreign affairs and security, we should give the elected officials credit and wish them success.
This is what the people wanted.
If the members "restore honor", restore governance, pacify the Palestinians, eradicate terrorism, curb Hezbollah, destroy the Iranian nuke and raise Israel's profile in the world, in the next elections I will be a field coordinator at the branch of Otzma Yehudit in Berhat.
voluntarily.
The question is what will happen if not.
Netanyahu should not be intimidated here.
He came home scared.
No one knows the international arena better than him.
Bennett and Lapid's honeymoon with the Western world is going to end with a bang.
Soon Netanyahu's partners will also discover that the American political umbrella is closing over us.
The first black swallows are already flying above us.
A few weeks ago, a UN committee approved, by a majority vote, a resolution based on a Palestinian proposal, calling for an urgent opinion of the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague regarding the "legal significance of the ongoing Israeli occupation".
This decision needs the approval of the UN Plenary. The vote will take place at the end of December. Israel will suffer a defeat in it. The US will not go out of its way to prevent this.
The interpretation is simple: the International Court of Justice of the UN will be able to judge Israel.
It will most likely be followed by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
By the way, also Israel's allies in the Middle East,
Prime Minister Lapid yesterday held a discussion with many participants around this issue.
She looks legal.
It can become, under the right circumstances, almost existential.
The body was returned without compensation.
Tiran Peru funeral (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
Let's move to Jerusalem.
A small piece of news published on Thursday, under the radar, announced that the capital of Israel had dropped a grade.
In the socio-economic index of the local authorities, which is published by the Central Bureau of Statistics, Jerusalem (for the first time in its history) dropped from cluster 3 to cluster 2. In any sane country, this was a headline.
The clusters in this index are arranged in reverse: the richest, most established and developed cities and councils, are in the tenth cluster (Savion, Kfar Shemarihu, Omer, Lehavim and Kochav Yair). The first cluster contains the most neglected, poor, poor and remote settlements. The largest and most important city in Israel, the eternal capital and the City of David, sinks to the penultimate place. Next to this cluster are two more Not small cities: Beit Shemesh and Bnei Brak.
This is worrying, because the process that is going through Jerusalem is also going through (at a slower pace) Israel.
In the 90's she was, still, in cluster 5. The more anxious she got, the worse she got.
The more she was abandoned by the secular and religious Zionist public, the more she became poor, needy, dependent on the public table.
Today the Israeli taxpayer is forced to finance Jerusalem with billions of shekels every year.
what will happen tomorrow
When a similar process will go through many more cities?
Who will finance all this?
Who will pay the bills?
The government that will be sworn in here in the coming weeks is not expected to change this disastrous direction.
On the contrary, it should speed it up.
Unemployment will receive government encouragement, allowances will increase, incentives for the working public, the servant, the creator and the breadwinner, will diminish.
The economic situation will worsen.
The global high-tech crisis will accelerate it.
Against all this, the bills will pile up.
The appetite of the new coalition partners is large and plentiful.
The looting will be quick.
The future is bleak.
And what about the other side?
The shock of the battle slowly wears off, as a nagging hangover.
Prime Minister Lapid and Defense Minister Gantz understand that the childish fight between them is not beneficial to anyone, except Netanyahu.
Lapid sent Gantz a WhatsApp on the first evening, with something like "What is it good for?".
Gantz streamed.
"Right, it's not good," he answered.
On Monday, at the meeting of the Yesh Atid faction, Lapid asked his MKs to calm down. To stop attacking the people of the state or labor camp. This does not promote the common idea. On the contrary, it hinders it. On Wednesday, Lapid and Gantz were already seen managing the security crisis around The attack in Jerusalem and the incident in Jenin together, shoulder to shoulder. Not bad management, by the way. Most of the work was done by the coordinator of operations in the territories, Major Rasan Aliyan, but the prerogative came from Jerusalem. Tiran Peru's body was returned without any compensation being paid.
must be described
The Prime Minister's wife, Lihya Lapid, this week sent a warning letter before suing Likud activist and bibist Rami Ben Yehuda, who claimed before the elections that Lapid believed in Jesus.
It was another deranged lie in an endless series of fakes, falsehoods, blood plots, and finger-licking tricks spread here during the last campaign, by one of the parties. The problem is, no one tried to fight it. No one tried to outwit the lie.
Now they are being recalled to threaten a lawsuit. In the same matter, the attorney's office this week asked the court to issue an order to prevent "threatening harassment" against bibist Orli Lev. They are not trying to prevent her from protesting. They are trying to prevent her from persecuting the plaintiff in the Netanyahu trial, Liat Ben Ari, and especially her family members. Such an order is already Nevt and Lev has already pledged to remove from social media all the stories she spread about Ben Ari's son (who was a minor at the time). However, she quickly returned to Sura. "Ben Ari must not be left behind," Lev preached this week to her followers, "
This gang claimed at the time that Ben Ari's minor son attacked a policeman (Pike) but was not arrested and was not prosecuted due to the mother's connections.
They also claimed that Ben Ari does not sit shava over her deceased sister, because she does not have a sister (she had one, and she passed away).
They demonstrated in front of her house day and night (this is allowed), they persecuted her children and made her family life miserable.
Now they are coming back.
Why do they come back?
Because they are not afraid.
The loss of control occurred not only on the roads of the south or in the Galilee mines.
It happens everywhere.
The law became a recommendation, the enforcers of the law became criminals.
The investigators should be investigated, the judges should be judged, the attorneys should be dismissed and the legal advisor to the government should be intimidated until she voluntarily resigns.
All of this is the handiwork of the prosecutor's office for boasting, which shows appalling laxity all along the way, in everything related to the Netanyahu files.
This week they remembered to inform the court that a mask of pressure, threats and attempts to disrupt is being carried out against the various witnesses in the thousands cases.
Well, so your message.
Received a warning before a claim.
Rami Ben Yehuda (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The one who didn't bother to disprove the lie of the 53 billion shekels that the government gave to the Muslim Brotherhood (it didn't exist, it wasn't created), the one who didn't bother to dismantle the fake about Benny Gantz who "prouded that he endangered the Golani soldiers" (a lie), the one who let the poison machine poison without interruption And left some warriors who tried to fight the lies by the wayside, now lamenting the result.
Dear friends, now it is too late.
In the meantime, the dogs don't even bark, while the caravan is being organized.
It's not just that someone accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust is going to "take care" of the legal system that judges him.
It's not just that someone convicted twice, including bribery, intends to pass a law that will spare him the disgrace.
Now it turns out that they also want to turn the legal advisors in the government ministry into trusted people who do not owe their loyalty to the provisions of the law, but to the minister who appointed them.
All this is happening while the various witnesses in the 4000 case are giving their testimonies before the court in Jerusalem.
For those who have forgotten, in case 4000 the charge is that the Minister of Communications used the powers he received from the public, in order to obtain personal profit (personal use of the "Walla" website).
So what are we claiming?
Next time, all this will happen, with the approval of the legal advisor in the office.
On normal days, one could write here "indescribable".
These days, it must be described.
And more will be described.
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