In the video: Netanyahu before takeoff: the goal of the opposition - to degenerate into anarchy and bring about elections (Leam)
In a split screen between helicopters, planes and mass demonstrations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took off for the weekend in Italy. On one screen: hundreds of cars blocking the entrances to the National Assembly in protest against the legal revolution, and tens of thousands of demonstrators who shouted about the destruction of democracy throughout the country.
On the second screen: Netanyahu and his wife jump from helicopters to Jerusalem for aerial diversionary exercises, and the senior officials of his office shoot at the duty coffers.
The split screen said it all: in the midst of the most acute and dangerous internal crisis Israel has ever known, at the end of the week when he arrived at the Holy of Holies of the IDF, and while senior security experts, economists and businessmen are warning that the country is heading for disaster - the Prime Minister fled/was smuggled to Rome. The preliminary saga The flight, which included a mutiny of pilots at El Al and an obsessive preoccupation with the size of the plane only set the stage for the separation spectacle.
Tens of thousands of protesters shouting about the destruction of democracy.
Demonstration in HaBima Square, March 9, 2023 (Photo: Uri Sela)
A few hours later, the split screen only got worse: on one screen - the Prime Minister and his wife in a meeting with members of the Jewish community in a synagogue in Rome, and on the other: the scenes of the serious attack on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, another painful reminder of his government's failure to deal with the wave of terrorism and to fill Its main mission and promise - peace and security.
The Minister of National Security that Netanyahu appointed, Itamar Ben Gvir, fails to live up to his bombastic title, and diverts his best efforts to demonstrations against the legal revolution, and to forcing a heavy hand on the police to use more violence against the protestors.
Shortly before the attack, Ben Gabir dismissed the commander of the Tel Aviv district, Ami Ashad, from his position, in a transparent political beheading, after continuous grievances about the restrained policy he led.
Eshad, one of the most respected officers in the police, arrived at the scene of the attack and stood in front of the cameras, the Minister of National Security, on the other hand, who in his seat in the opposition was careful to humiliate his predecessor in the position and attend every terrorist incident, justified this time with a security consideration and fled.
The attack in Tel Aviv, especially on the evening when he deposed the district commander, exposed him in the fullness of his failure.
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The split screen gets worse: the scenes of the attack in Dizengoff, March 9, 2023 (Photo: Flash 90, Eric Marmor)
At that time, on the split screen, the Prime Minister continued the event with the Jews of Rome as usual, while receiving updates from the military secretary in front of the cameras.
At the end, he went up to give a statement of condolences to the wounded and reinforcements to the security forces, and convened a remote security situation assessment.
At the same time, the Prime Minister's office hastened to clarify that there is no intention to shorten the visit to Rome - which mainly includes an "important political meeting", in the words of Netanyahu's office, with Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney, which was scheduled for today at noon, and will end too late to return before Saturday.
A three-day trip was sewn around the one-hour meeting, which coincidentally, or not, coincides with the Netanyahu couple's wedding anniversary celebrations that were mentioned this week.
The trip to Rome, like the flight to Paris last month, and like the doubling of the dormitory budget and the law that will allow donations to be received for legal funding;
portends intoxication of power;
Disdain and disconnection from the voices of the public, whose anxieties about the cost of living, inflation and rising interest rates are amplified by the furious predictions of the economic damage from the legal revolution.
Yesterday the State of Israel experienced one of the most dramatic days of its life, at least in the last decade: crowds of protesters blocked the National Highway and Ayalon routes for hours; the commander of the Air Force suspended a senior reserve pilot because of the 69th Squadron's protest against the legal reform - and the Minister of National Security fired the commander of the Tel Aviv district His violent spirit did not cease; President Yitzhak Herzog gave a historic speech in which he warned of a "disaster", and in the evening, an attack in Tel Aviv, which luckily did not end in a greater disaster and a night of anxiety in Beitar Elit for fear of a terrorist infiltration. Every day that passes, with an accumulation of events at a dizzying pace, only Deepening the constitutional, security, economic and especially social crisis in which the country is wallowing. And the Prime Minister, in a split screen, cut to the weekend in Rome as if it did not concern him.
"When we are here we remember that we are all brothers."
Netanyahu in the synagogue in Rome, March 9, 2023 (photo: official website, no)
In a speech at the synagogue in Rome, even before the attack, Netanyahu actually referred to today's events, "When we are here, we remember that we are all brothers," he said.
A few hours earlier, his eldest son accused the top police of rebellion and responsibility for the chaos of the anarchists, as he said, and inspired the impeachment operation of the Tel Aviv district commander.
On one screen the Prime Minister is calling for calm, on another his son and his government officials fuel the protest with extreme force and vile statements that only exacerbate the situation and heat up the area.
Under the auspices of the ombudsman's ban on legal reform because of the indictments, Netanyahu also dissociated himself from the gallantry of Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Constitutional Committee Chair Simcha Rothman to move forward with the revolution, and removed himself from responsibility for the incident, which is approaching the point of no return.
Behind the scenes he pressures Levin to soften the legislation and reach compromises, but the Minister of Justice refuses to stop, even for a minute.
And among all the outlines and documents circulating in the meantime there is a wall in a wall in one way: the political control of the committee for selecting judges - on which Levin refuses to compromise.
The threat of the Minister of Justice to resign if the Prime Minister restrains him, which has been on the table since the time of the coalition negotiations, as well as the fear that interfering with the reform contrary to the ombudsman's guidance will be used as a legal pretext for impeachment, paralyze Netanyahu and prevent him from imposing his will.
The responsibility for the chaos the country is in lies with Netanyahu.
Burning tires in Ayalon, March 9, 2023 (Photo: Reuven Castro)
State President Yitzhak Herzog also starred on the split screen last night, who in a sharp and clear speech signaled to Netanyahu and Levin that his patience was over and time was running out.
For the first time, after weeks of polite balance, the president spoke out against Levin and Rothman's "predatory and wrong" legislation, calling for it to "pass from the world and quickly" and also placed the weight of responsibility on Netanyahu and his government.
"It's a moment of being or not," he said.
Next week the president intends to present the outline he formulated with the councils of legal sages who worked in the president's house for the past two months, and to put the task of making the last painful compromises at the door of the politicians.
In the synagogue in Rome, Netanyahu welcomed "all the initiatives, including the president's, to reach the broadest possible understanding."
Netanyahu may be prevented from dealing with the details of the reform, but the responsibility for the chaos in which the country is in rests solely with him;
He is the one who gave Levin and Ben Gabir the steering wheel and lost control over it.
And as long as he is paralyzed and cut off by a split screen, he will have difficulty regaining the reins, and preventing the crisis from degenerating into further abysses.
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