Opinion Will Netanyahu really do "everything"? | Israel today

Cast content to a statement.

Following last week's attacks, Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government "will do everything to restore security."

Not "much effort".

Don't "act decisively".

Everything!

There are fixed sentences used by politicians following terrorist attacks, and Netanyahu chose one of them.

Naturally, this short sentence did not create echoes.

Everyone wants to put an end to terrorist attacks, as does the one who held the position longer than any of his predecessors and will return and serve in it soon.

But when a prime minister says he will do "everything", it is permissible to ask what that includes.

The right-wing experts rushed to bombard him with recommendations for restoring security: the death penalty for terrorists, sealing houses or their immediate demolition, clan deportation of the relatives of the perpetrators, toughening the conditions of the security prisoners in prison, canceling work permits in Israel for the relatives of the terrorists, and similar "proven and effective" solutions, which Netanyahu had heard about. Endless times and he is aware of their sterility, and also of the damage they may bring.

You can always think of tactical measures that have not been tried before.

But this is not enough to fulfill the promise to "do everything".

Two major moves that brought about change were the peace with Egypt, which removed from Israel the greatest threat to its security, and the peace with Jordan, as a result of the Oslo agreement, which gave us strategic depth that neutralized the danger of the eastern front.

Both proved the very close connection between security and peace.

Netanyahu made great efforts not to reach peace with the Palestinians, and more than once he brags about it.

But the man who signed the Hebron Agreement and the Wai Agreement, who found a friend in Arafat, who gave the Bar-Ilan speech, who was so enthusiastic about Trump's two-state plan, understands very well that without the division of the land, the Jewish democratic state cannot exist.

If the promise to "do everything" does not include a significant political move - it is empty of content.

In the government, Netanyahu may find himself a Yoni marker, but in the Knesset he will have a large majority for any such move.

It is not the long years in power that will assure him of putting his stamp on the Israeli story, but the great deed he will do, and which he has not yet done.

temporary block.

In an article published by Naftali Bennett in the "New York Times", the former prime minister tried to explain his miracle formula for the success of the short-lived government under his leadership: 70-70.

Since 70 percent of the public agrees on 70 percent of the issues, it is possible to form a government that will set aside the 30 percent in dispute and focus on the agreed matters.

Wonder of wonders - he just didn't point out that the agreed topics are the obvious ones - concerning the need to educate the next generation, to preserve the health of the citizens, to have a regular food supply, to a growing economy and to open umbrellas when the rain falls.

In the 30 percent that do not agree, Bennett mentions nothing less than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the issues of religion and state, and the legal system in Israel.

Obviously this is a joke.

It is impossible to maintain, for a long time, a government that is divided on the three most essential issues and think that ignoring them, or suspending their treatment, is a serious possibility.

The Bennett government was the only way to replace Netanyahu at the head of the government.

It could not and was not intended to increase unity or solve difficult problems that had been waiting for many years.

Quite a few people in the Israeli public believed that replacing Netanyahu, who is on trial for bribery, justifies the appointment of a politician to his right, who heads a small faction in the Knesset, if only to pass the state budget.

Israel remained intact at the end of Bennett's term, and here and there proper corrections were made.

But unfortunately, he was an insignificant prime minister whose formula for "success" was a temporary "blood stop" and nothing else.

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