Hunting trip
Outgoing Defense Minister Benny Gantz came on Tuesday this week to light candles at the Western Wall.
The last time he came to the Western Wall, a few weeks ago, several dozen ultra-Orthodox brats were waiting for him there to accompany him with prolonged screams of "Murderer".
The man spent two-thirds of his (rather long) life in uniform to protect the lives of the bastards who blasphemed him, but the poison machine did its thing.
Gantz is a killer.
This week, Moshe Miron was waiting for him there.
The name sounds familiar, and rightly so.
This is the man who appears at every Likud demonstration, at every bibist event, at every photo opportunity of this kind, with the sign "Leftists are killers".
He is a source of meat for the Likud, in the last campaign he even earned tens of thousands of shekels there (publishing by Sepi Ovadia).
Miron is a well-known, veteran and powerful bibist.
Someone prints for him, for a considerable amount of money, the posters of the "traitor leftists" in commercial quantities.
I wonder who.
No one in the ruling party, including its leader, disapproved of it.
This campaign has become almost legitimate.
The turning of people into traitors because of their political opinion is seen in these troubled days as a blessed routine.
Miron was also one of those who interrupted and tried to blow up the funeral of Israel's hero, Sgt
. , Miron attacked Gantz with loud shouts: "Ganz, shame on you for saying that there is room in Jerusalem for two beers!
Shame on you!!
Get out of here!!
Get out of here!!
You said that in Jerusalem there is room for two beers!!
Go home!
Get out of here!!"
All this happened at the Western Wall, the holiest place for Jews.
There were those who tried to provoke Miron, tried to keep him away, but all attempts failed.
This is a sophisticated client.
He is a professional screamer and troublemaker.
He cannot be silenced.
His preferred option is, apparently, to be dragged from the place in handcuffs - and then celebrate as the victim of gagging.
But it didn't help.
He continued to scream unhindered.
What did Gantz sin?
What made him designated as an abomination, to those who are prohibited from desecrating the Western Wall?
According to Miron, Gantz said there was room for two beers in Jerusalem.
Factually, he is right.
Gantz did say about two years ago, in an interview with a Saudi newspaper, that in his peace vision "there is a place for a Palestinian capital in a united Jerusalem."
No one was really excited by these things, for a simple reason: this option of a Palestinian capital in one of the remote neighborhoods of Jerusalem has already been examined by almost all political parties in Israel.
This is not the city itself, but one of the Palestinian neighborhoods or villages that were annexed to it after '67.
He wants to mark Gantz as a traitor.
But not only Gantz.
He doesn't like the leftists either.
Benny Gantz (Photo: Reuven Castro, no)
In the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians conducted by Netanyahu in 2014, with the mediation of American Secretary of State John Kerry, a historic peace settlement was formulated. Netanyahu said "yes", Abu Mazen has not returned an answer until this moment. Moshe Miron is invited to ask the American ambassador On the same paper, which was published at the time. The settlement includes "two capitals in Jerusalem". The Americans received from Netanyahu's emissary, Attorney Yitzhak Malcho, approval and consent to the wording, with Netanyahu's approval.
They did not receive similar consent from the Palestinians.
This was not the last time Netanyahu discussed the possibility of allowing Palestinians a capital in a remote part of Jerusalem.
You can ask the former MK Dr. Anat Barko, a personal appointment of Netanyahu, who even conducted a thorough ground-work regarding the possibility of separating from Jerusalem some of the remote Palestinian villages and neighborhoods, which are a heavy millstone on the neck of the city and the neck of the Israeli taxpayer.
I guess Moshe Miron doesn't know all this.
He doesn't want to know either.
He wants to mark Gantz as a traitor.
But not only Gantz.
He doesn't like the leftists either.
They cheat too.
When Netanyahu woos Mansor Abbas, it is about the great white hope of all of us, a good Arab who reaches out for peace and we are not allowed to return them empty.
When Abbas joins someone else's government, he overnight becomes a supporter of terrorism, a terrorist and an oppressor of Israel.
When Naftali Bennett says "the West Bank", he is denounced as a war criminal whose hands are covered in blood.
When Netanyahu says "the West Bank" (this week, in an English interview), it's okay.
When Netanyahu cuts the meat, brutally cuts child allowances and states that the ultra-Orthodox "have children so that they can have more children", he is working to save the Israeli economy.
When Lieberman tries to pass the discount on dormitories to the families of Israelis who work and serve, he blackmails Israel, hates ultra-Orthodox and is anti-Semitic.
When Netanyahu makes history and transfers 15 billion shekels to the Arab society in Israel, he is a great leader and reformer.
As the Bennet-Lapid government continues his plan, it has sold Israel to the Muslim Brotherhood.
And so on.
The hunting trip does not miss anyone.
Leftists are bullshit.
Now they are looking for Greeks.
assimilating
Spruce huggers.
Yanon Magal, my broadcasting colleague at 103, horrifies heaven and earth following every story about a boy in a village near Beer-Sheva who returned home and asked his parents what a fir tree was.
When Yair Netanyahu is photographed wearing a Santa Claus hat next to a decorated fir tree, it's folklore.
When Sarah Netanyahu lights a fir tree with Hillary Clinton, it is allowed.
When Yair Lapid lights Hanukkah candles with the "Yesh Atid" faction two hours before time, it is Greek assimilation, or Greekization is assimilated, of a group whose goal is to harm Israel's Jewish symbols and sell us to Santa Claus.
Anyone who is not a Bibist is now defined as a potential assimilator, a hidden Greek, a clear and tangible danger to the Judaism of all of us.
No one is immune
At the same time, the campaign of purges continued: they started with the police, moved to the prosecutor's office, eliminated the legal advisor (Shantanyahu Mina), the commissioner (Shantanyahu Mina), moved to the Shin Bet, continued to the IDF, smeared the current chief of staff, slandered the staff. Next, they are now focusing on the IDF spokesman, a veteran fighter, 13 generations in Israel, who also found himself on the list of those designated for purification.
Why?
Because some soldiers in the IDF spokesperson were babbling in a smolanit on Twitter.
In between, no one is immune.
The academy, the legal world, the media, the elites, anyone who dares to open his mouth and whistle, is in the crosshairs.
Everything that is not good in the eyes of bibism, is destined to be dismantled.
They go through Stylia with the harpoons and a lot of blood in their eyes.
Did the police dare to investigate Netanyahu?
We will disassemble it.
We will not include a Commissioner for two years. We will subject it to Ben-Gavir. The Bar Association is not good for anyone? We will close it. The corporation is upsetting the guys in Caesarea? Human dignity and freedom protect the freedom of the individual and how many other rights?
They bind us to each other.
They quarrel with each other.
Leftists against rightists, fighters against commanders, Mizrahim against Ashkenazim, periphery against kibbutzim.
The wonderful Israeli tribe, a historical, one-time puzzle, a miracle that took place here more than seven decades ago, is disintegrating, disintegrating before our eyes, to the cheers of the crowd.
The thinker and founder of all this watches the vision from his window, just as he was then standing on the balcony in Zion Square.
Apparently, he has nothing to do with all of this.
In reality, all this in his image.
It is a journey of dissolution and decay.
The dismantling of state institutions, the dismantling of Israeli society, the pitting of its components against each other, one against the other, which goes hand in hand with the journey of decaying the public, the state, the values on the basis of which this country was built.
This journey reaches its climax this week.
Netanyahu informed the president that "it was up to him".
The government will be sworn in next week.
The government ministries also went through a systematic dismantling.
An office that does not dismantle, divides.
Netanyahu discussed the possibility of dividing all the offices among the Likud MKs in such a way that an MK would receive a medium/reasonable office for the first two years, and a junior office for the next two years.
What about the governors?
What about the continuity?
What about the minister taking at least a year to learn the ministry?
not interesting.
Mehar Shal felt falcon.
The government ministries also went through a systematic dismantling.
An office that does not dismantle, divides.
Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: Image processing, Reuters)
They will repeal the tax on sugary drinks and re-raise the danger that we will become the world's leading diabetes nation.
They are abandoning the ultra-Orthodox children to one of the most terrible dangers of the modern era, and there is no way to make up for it.
The same things about the tax on disposable tools.
They give Goldknopf the sole authority to approve mortgage discounts for the ultra-Orthodox, Derai the authority to approve property tax discounts, they will give a 50% discount to the ultra-Orthodox on public transportation, double the allowances for the children, and it is forbidden to talk about core studies.
Assigned out of disgust.
What is the most amazing?
All this happens in Hebrew.
In English, we live in a parallel universe.
Netanyahu was interviewed about two weeks ago on the podcast of Jordan Peterson, a well-known Canadian psychologist.
A long, in-depth, quite fascinating interview.
At one point, Peterson asked him about the price he paid when he was finance minister and decided to cut the meat of welfare benefits in Israel.
Surprisingly, perhaps even amazingly, Netanyahu repeated the same texts he said at the time: "I had to cut Israel's magnificent welfare system," Netanyahu replied, "which encouraged people to live on allowances, therefore, when I cut the child allowances, which in Israel were exceptional, they would increase corresponding to each additional child, and this led to a demographic and economic collapse. And the same thing happened in other sectors, in the ultra-orthodox community, etc. They didn't work, they just had a lot of children, which the others, the public, the private sector, had to pay for."
That is, Netanyahu is well aware of the horrific crime he is now committing in the Israeli economy, in the Israeli economy, in the future of our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, in the economic potential, in the entire Zionist dream.
In 2003, he managed to turn the pendulum, slim down the fat, strengthen the lean, increase productivity, put many ultra-Orthodox workers to work and even increase the recruiting quotas for the ultra-Orthodox.
In 2023, at the end of twenty years, it does the exact opposite, with much greater power.
The demographic balance today is different from what it was 20 years ago.
The ultra-orthodox have become a large population group, their multiplication rate is much higher than the other groups.
Now Netanyahu is injecting them with steroids and adrenaline that will definitively kill their motivation for work, for core studies, for recruitment.
He harms their future, he destroys our future.
He does all this for one reason: to survive.
When interviewed in English, Netanyahu sounds like he is assimilating.
When he returns to Hebrew, he settles.
Calms the Gentiles and Atz runs back to wink at the Jews.
Explains that Israel will remain liberal, security will remain in the hands of the believers, there will be no violation of human rights, LGBT people, democratic values. , the most conservative, racist and militant that has ever been established here. I hope, for his sake and for ours, that he knows what he is doing.
At the time of Bennett-Lapid, a bad nuclear deal was stalled.
Just like the consulate in East Jerusalem.
Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid (photo: screenshot, from Tiktok)
received an inheritance
The sixth Netanyahu government receives a good inheritance from its predecessor, perhaps even a very good one.
Yesterday the economic results of the countries of the world were published in the "Economist".
Israel ranks fourth in the world in the table of "the winning countries of 2022".
It is nothing short of amazing.
President Joe Biden recently said that "the nuclear deal with Iran is dead."
When the Bennett-Lapid government was formed, Netanyahu claimed that it had neglected the Iranian issue, that it was bowing down to the US, that it did not raise an alarm and did not terrorize heaven and earth in an effort to stop the nuclear agreement that was taking shape. He even wrote a huge scaremongering article in "Israel Hayom". In reality , during Netanyahu's time, a bad nuclear agreement was signed between Iran and the powers. Against his nose and anger, despite his speeches, screams and conflicts (between Democrats and Republicans). During Bennet-Lapid's time, a bad nuclear agreement was stopped. Just like the consulate in East Jerusalem.
What legacy will the sixth Netanyahu government leave for those who come after it?
I think it's better not to know.
In the meantime, we will be patient and wait for the bills to be paid and the promises to be fulfilled.
As I recall, Netanyahu is going to freeze mortgage repayments, lower the cost of living, lower the price of electricity, solve the housing crisis (first he will convince the real estate shark appointed to the Minister of Housing that there is such a crisis), restore governance, reduce crime, and a few other things Good luck to him.
dark chamber
If Netanyahu's office is the litmus paper that is supposed to predict the boss's performance, then we are in deep trouble.
In 2009, it took his office a few months to start fermenting.
A headline in "Maariv" announced, shortly after the establishment of the government, that the senior officials of that office would be subjected to a polygraph.
Chambers have always been Netanyahu's weak point.
The Chief Executive Officers and their chiefs of staff hold an average of a year, a year and a half. The CEOs, usually, even less than that.
The various advisors and officials change at a dizzying rate, most of them flee or are dismissed or simply disappear, some become state witnesses or the heads of the ultra-Orthodox camp from the continuation of the Netanyahu family's rule.
Add the names. "Two senior members of Netanyahu's office, Tzachi Braverman and Ikki Cohen" and continue.
The current bureau has broken all records and is disintegrating live, in a dizzying colorful audiovisual fireworks display, in front of all of us.
Summary of the previous episodes: One day, in the afternoon, two senior members of Netanyahu's office, Tzachi Braverman and Ikki Cohen, were dispatched to MK Tali Gottlieb's room in the Knesset, to ask her to lower her tones, lower the volume, to try to be a little more stately in her debut speech in the Knesset. This turned into an afternoon of calamity. Gottlieb, whose restraint is not her strong point, turned the event into a war of destruction in the office. Bottom line, everyone was sent to the polygraph institute in Herzliya. Nevo Katz came forward on Sunday, Ikki Cohen was in front of him, also Tzachi Braverman and others. The official version: they all passed You passed the polygraph with success. None of them were found guilty of leaking the incident (LHM), although one of the subjects did not pass, his result is inconclusive.
In the meantime, Netanyahu was forced to publish a message of support for Tzachi Braverman, who became the target of Gottlieb's character, while another front is opening from the direction of Galit Distel-Atebrian against Yonatan Urich, who imprisoned her on the balcony of Ze'ev Citadel even before the elections.
Two more senior officials from Netanyahu's office, this time it was Tzachi Braverman and Yossi Shelli, visited Dodi Amsalem this week and tried to convince him to settle for a case other than the justice case, and to give up the position of Speaker of the Knesset. It is not certain that they succeeded in their mission. At least it was not leaked. Natan Eshel, On the other hand, he tried to convince Gila Gamaliel to agree to the position of ambassador. This was also not very successful. A loud scandal developed between MK May Golan and the leader of the old faction, Aliza Barashi, in the farsa behind the Knesset plenum.
Following this, a close advisor of Netanyahu was dispatched to appease Golan.
Brashi, on the other hand, was mentioned as a candidate for the position of Knesset CEO (until recently, Ikki Cohen was the candidate for this position, but Hino Sir. As far as is known, a probe was also made for the return of Asher Hayon, former chief of staff, to the office, but without success).
Gottlieb, whose restraint is not her forte, turned the event into a war of destruction in the office.
Tali Gottlieb (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Spoiler: it doesn't matter who will be appointed and for what position, in a year from now most of the positions will be re-staffed.
The statistics do not lie.
At the beginning of his career, Netanyahu tried to surround himself with personalities of (relatively) stature, with (some) experience, with a worldview and a long way to go.
As the years passed, the governments changed, the coalitions were built and the shouts were shouted, the generation went on and on until we got to where we are.
Apparently this is office gossip.
In reality, the prime minister's office is the most important place in the country.
The prime minister's work environment is essential to his success.
The quality of the consultation, the suppression of background noise, the work of the headquarters, all of these are essential components in managing a complex country like Israel.
All of these have long since ceased to exist in Netanyahu's work environment, which was defined as a disaster area around 2015 and since then the disaster has gotten worse and worse.
Nevertheless and in spite of everything, we must not stop hoping that there will be a responsible adult there who will make order in the mess and try to make some peace in the chaos, because if it explodes, the explosion will hurt us all.
Novice returns
Gadi Eisenkot, the 21st Chief of Staff, has now finished his second training. At least that's how he feels. They said that if the state camp is not part of the coalition, Eisenkot will not find himself in the Knesset. What about him and the sweaty corridors, the dreary committees, the mud fights with the bibists . Well, he is there. Five weeks of intoxication and endless discussions constituted, for him, a new route in the Golani. He is even starting to enjoy himself.
"I ask myself where the Netanyahu I knew has gone," Eisenkot told me the other day. You're running Operation Northern Shield in the north. I've seen him make responsible state decisions, and I see him now. I see him passing these dangerous laws, I think there's some kind of madness here. I think he understands that. I see a mix of mistrust His partners are amazing, who insist on transferring everything in advance, but there are also really dangerous laws."
"There are also really dangerous laws."
Gadi Eisenkot (Photo: Reuven Castro)
I asked him what laws he meant.
"For the laws of Smotrich and Ben Gvir," Eisenkot answered, "this is a clear and immediate danger in the short term. An acutely and immediately dangerous effect. Give Smotrich the responsibility for the National Police and the Civil Administration, let him manage the construction plans, establish an alternative private legal consultancy , all civil powers, this indicates a lack of understanding of the machine that was built here from 1967, the machine that the IDF, the Shin Bet and the police manage together to enable a normal life in an abnormal reality.
To let Smotrich step into the shoes of the sovereign, at the same time as the Minister of Defense and the Ministry of Defense, to deal with fresh invasions of Palestinian and settler territories, Netanyahu understands all this and despite everything, does it.
And I'm not talking yet," Eisenkot added, "about the three egos huddled there, about that bulge.
Gallant's ego together with Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.
If this group realizes only 10% of what it promised, we are expecting a very complex reality in front of all the players in the region: the Palestinians,
The Americans, the Europeans, the Gulfs, Jordan, Gaza, it could develop into something combined between all the fronts.
Last time it took us seven years to put the genie back in the bottle.
Not sure that next time it will happen so quickly.
I ask myself who among this whole bunch will have the wisdom not to do nonsense, and I don't know."
Eisenkot is a thorough person.
Maybe too thorough.
As usual before any mission, he went to study.
He went through all the statements of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, he read and watched everything that was published and written about them.
His eye mainly caught a movie on channel Kaan 11 (the excellent Suleiman Masveda) with Ben-Gvir.
"Listen," says Eisenkot, "they don't hide their plan. One state for the entire area, the dissolution of the Civil Administration, the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority. When they are asked if they will give citizenship or at least residency to the Palestinians, they say no, what the hell. So what reality Do they want to return? They are talking about the reality of 1994. What does Ben-Gvir know about the reality in 1994? He was then a teenager who rioted at the intersections. I," Eisenkot says, "was Brigadier General Ephraim.
Even before that I was a chief of staff in the Yosh, then I was the commander of the Yosh. They simply want to return to the military government. They write explicit papers about it, their statements are clear. And I ask myself, if they understand the meaning of this.
Do they know that the Civil Administration derives all its powers from Central Command General Yehuda Fox.
that they produce three ministers of defense on one territory, in one conflict.
"I ask myself where the Netanyahu I knew has gone."
Gadi Eisenkot (Photo: Government Press Office, Haim Tzach)
"They made a decision from the hip, they don't understand why she can let us in. I did all the positions at IOSH.
From Majad to Chief of Staff.
When they move the MGB to Laban-Gvir, it's an unimaginable event. It's 2,000 soldiers and policemen. The MGB is the most professional body in the Yash. The IDF battalions change all the time.
Young guys, it's not enough to learn the terrain and move on.
The MGB is there all the time. The MGB runs Hebron.
The MGB knows how to deal with disturbances. The MGB knows how to deal with a fresh invasion.
If you move the MGB to the Negev, it means a lot. The IDF pays the MGB 300 million shekels a year for its activities in the Yosh.
If you take the MGB, the HSM, the MGB, the highest quality, most professional force, you may pay for it in cash."
Eisenkot finds it difficult to hide his frustration.
"When I talked about it during the campaign," he says, "they told me it wasn't interesting,
I was asked if I believed all this would happen.
I said yes.
And here, all this is happening."
In recent weeks, Eisenkot spent many hours in the committee that formulated the new police order.
"We balanced the decision a bit, but there are still difficult gaps. On the other hand, I also find a kind of opportunity," he says.
I asked what he meant.
"They took the basic law of the army and tried to translate it to the police. I'm not sure they understood it completely. According to the basic law of the army, the chief of staff is subordinate to the government or the cabinet.
Not to the Minister of Defense or the Prime Minister.
Mofaz did this at the time to the prime minister who served above him and demanded a cabinet meeting to approve certain orders.
I did it too.
The Chief of Staff is the highest command level of the IDF.
In the police the situation is different.
In the police, everyone talks to everyone and tries to influence everyone.
The minister, the prime minister, the commissioner, the superintendents. Now a situation will arise in which the commissioner can do the same and with significant decisions demand a cabinet meeting and approval.
It may be a good development."
"They thrive in network battles, in the digital world. The question is what they understand about management."
Itamar Ben Gabir (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Eisenkot encountered Ben-Gvir, for the first time, this week, in a kind of corridor conversation before entering the committee.
"These are guys who live on the networks," says Eisenkot, "what they have forgotten in this area, I will no longer learn. They live on Tiktok, on Facebook, on Twitter, they thrive in online battles, in the digital world. The question is what they understand about management. Leadership. They People of chaos, not people of decision-making and organization. When you run an army or police, you need to build leadership, you need staff work, you need to be knowledgeable in public administration, operating systems, handling personnel. I want to believe that it will succeed."
It's not just Eisenkot who wants to believe it will work.
We all have to believe and hope that it will work.
The experiment is performed here on humans.
in real time.
Not in the lab.
Eisencott calls it "a shift from risk management to spread betting."
Someone here is betting big, on the entire pot, in which we are all invested.
This is a strategic alert.
One should pray that she will not be presented to any future commission of inquiry.
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