Netanyahu-Blinken meeting/L.A.M
After a period of stuttering, embarrassment and loss of temper, Benjamin Netanyahu found his campaign.
He recovered.
The man, pale and devoid of the spirit of life, found a new wind for his sails.
If until recently he seemed, even to his associates, like a drowning man clutching at a straw, then the color is returning to his cheeks.
"A mutilated scarecrow", that's what Gadi Eisenkot said of him, when he was exposed to the shaken and frightened old man he and Benny Gantz found in the prime minister's office the week after the "Netanyahu massacre".
Well, the scarecrow is still a scarecrow, but he's no longer plucked.
Now he is torn.
the nerves of everyone: the families of the abductees, the American administration, the heads of the security system and, of course, his close partners, those who felt his help on the day of the command, those who were impressed by the cries of the "Peichul Nefesh" on October 11 when Aryeh Deri ran between the Prime Minister's office in Kriya and the command pit and cried for help
In those days, Netanyahu radiated helplessness and a need for help. He clung to the professional rank, he sought comfort, he mainly listened. Someone who sat in the discussions at the time said that the Netanyahu of after the "Netanyahu massacre" is a person who listens 10 times more than he speaks. The decision on which was published
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To land a powerful pre-emptive strike in Lebanon, he maneuvered and delayed and orchestrated so that the decisive moment would be timed exactly to the moment when Gantz and Eisenkot agreed and signed the coalition agreement that put them in the government. At that second, they were both lowered into the "pit" in a panic, where they were shown the Israeli attack plan. The two chiefs of staff They asked to hear intelligence and security reviews, to hear all the heads of the relevant branches, but there was no time for that.
They had to say they were against it.
Netanyahu breathed a sigh of relief.
Their opposition took it off the agenda.
The rabbit also managed to escape from a dangerous action, and also shifted the potential blame onto others.
classics.
Those days are gone.
He stopped consulting the heads of the branches, the chief of staff, the head of the Mossad, the head of the Shin Bet and their friends, he also listens less to the two chiefs of staff he added to the cabinet and not even to Aryeh Deri. He switched from the professional security personnel to the included bureau personnel. The officers' place was taken The copywriters. And so the "Complete Victory" campaign was born.
Netanyahu is now trying to get rid of Gantz and Eisenkot. He no longer needs them. They did their part, now he is back to his. He is convinced that Gideon Sa'ar will stay with him for a long time. He has 68 safe and homogeneous hands. He We no longer need crutches. That's why he talks about "total victory". After all, this slogan has no military value and has no content whatsoever. If you ask the Chief of Staff what a total victory is, he won't know the answer.
If you ask Major General Yaron Finkelman of the Southern Command what a complete victory is, he will tell you that only the killing of all the Nuhba people and all the leaders of Hamas will be considered a complete victory.
In other words, it's an event that will take a long time.
Certainly not "several months", as Netanyahu declares.
So why is it good?
It's good for politics.
The defeated, scared, gray as a sack Bibi tried in the first weeks after the disaster to send a message of intimidation.
He is strong in the field.
"Only Netanyahu will prevent the Palestinian Authority from returning to Gaza," wailed his trumpets.
Well, it didn't catch.
"Only Bibi will prevent a Palestinian state" didn't really take off either.
Do you remember "Only Netanyahu will prevent Iran from going nuclear"?
So that's it, Iran is a nuclear threshold country.
Netanyahu stopped listening to the members of the security establishment, their place was taken by the copywriters/image processing, Yonatan Zindel/Flash 90
One way or another, Netanyahu realized that after the massacre recorded in his name, he should not find a threat.
The threat is already here.
fully realized.
on his watch.
What he needs is hope.
positive message.
No more negative.
Let's find a positive.
"Total victory"!
cheers
Netanyahu understood that only a complete victory would atone for the complete failure he signed.
There is a kind of bet here.
Netanyahu is betting that something good will happen.
Killing Sanwar is the best.
This will allow him to frame and declare that "total victory".
And you know exactly what he will do at that moment: appropriate the achievement for himself, go on a world-wide victory tour and announce something like I promised, I fulfilled.
In the meantime, he rebrands himself as a winner, and his opponents Gantz and Eisenkot as those losers that he threw under the wheels of the bus on the way to absolute victory.
They surrendered to the kidnapped campaign, they preferred to submit, stop the war, give up victory, join the left, Ronan Zur, the new foundation, Shakma Bresler's husband and the rest of the traitors among us.
In a clean view, detached from reality, this is a genius campaign.
The Israeli public has lost its confidence in the state's ability to protect it.
He needs victory like air to breathe.
Netanyahu not only promises victory, he also invents it.
It's an ethereal term that Netanyahu is trying to trap in a bag like trying to control a ghost.
The only problem with the whole event is that it is based on a lie.
on a false maxim.
on a pike
Because what Netanyahu has brought to the State of Israel is complete failure.
Those who bring absolute victory are the warriors.
The reservists, the regulars, their amazing spirit and of course the IDF, the Shin Bet, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marines and the tankmen.
Not Netanyahu.
And one more thing: the victory has already been achieved.
There is no question about it.
The IDF crushes Hamas. Not because of Netanyahu, but in spite of Netanyahu.
In the first weeks after the massacre inscribed on his name, Netanyahu trembled with fear. He heard from Yitzhak Barik and Ofer Winter that entering the Strip would be a disaster. That it would be a death trap. He lost faith in Israel's ability. The entrance of Gantz and Eisenkot filled him with confidence. Together with Gallant, they calmed him down like you calm a small child who woke up in the middle of the night from a bad dream. Except that in our case, the dream really happened. Now, he no longer needs them.
Netanyahu's complete victory is a sight to behold. No Only Yahya Sanwar is out of touch. So is Netanyahu. Some of those around him are convinced that he has lost touch with the mother spacecraft. That he has created an alternative reality for himself, more comfortable than the one he has imposed on us all. It is not difficult to understand that Israel is entering an explosive month like no other. But the way he hurtfully ignored all the warnings The explicit (in writing) he received before Black Sabbath, he is now ignoring.
The explosiveness lies in the fact that Gaza is still bleeding. Netanyahu's refusal to discuss the day after or the establishment of any alternative that will take care of Gaza instead of Hamas, means that Hamas returns and pops up in places that the IDF evacuates.
If we add to this the fact that Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are determined to ignite Judea and Samaria, in order to realize the "concept of decision" and the "Torah of the King" and continue to undermine the Temple Mount, and the possibility that the campaign in the north will turn into an all-out war, and the continued deterioration of relations between Netanyahu and the White House , we will get cloudy porridge from the one that was cooked here on the evening of October 7th.
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They saved Netanyahu after the massacre inscribed on his name - now he will throw them under the wheels/image processing, Reuven Castro, Noam Rivkin Fenton - Flash 90
Netanyahu believes that if he tells the public what he wants to hear about the absolute victory and eternal life that we will all enjoy the day after, that will be enough.
He is wrong.
This week he graciously agreed, for the first time, to say in the cabinet that he is ready to see a model that will be offered to him for the "day after" in Gaza.
When Defense Minister Gallant mentioned a certain format that would be headed by General Majed Faraj, the head of the Palestinian security apparatus, Netanyahu immediately dismissed it.
After all, this is a Palestinian!
And another one that belongs to the Palestinian Authority!
"He probably wants to bring in a Swiss," said someone in the War Cabinet.
This is also a mistake.
He doesn't want to bring anyone.
He wants to hold on to the status quo and buy time.
We have reached the issue of the abductees.
Someone said this week that "Netanyahu wants them dead."
An absurd statement.
Netanyahu wants the abductees alive and, if possible, healthy, intact and freed.
The only problem is that the only thing that is more important to him than the safety of the abductees, is the safety of the coalition.
If Netanyahu could choose an option, his dream is to release the abductees in a heroic military operation.
Why?
Because he can happily accept responsibility for such an operation.
Since this is apparently impossible, he prefers to drag his feet.
His top priority, far outweighing concern for the survival of the abductees, is the survival of the coalition.
When everyone wishes for the safety and health of 134 Israelis abandoned on October 7 by Netanyahu and his government (and the security system, of course), Netanyahu wishes for the health and peace of mind of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.
This is the reason for the exercise he did this week for the two trios: Mossad head Dedi Barnea, Shin Bet chief Ronan Bar and Major General Nitzan Alon Meza, Gantz, Eisenkot and Aryeh Deri Meza. Reminder: in the previous round Barnea, Bar and Alon were sent to Paris, where they flew with an almost completely free mandate to open in negotiations
They presented an Israeli proposal in principle and did not touch, not even a hint, the key to the release of the Palestinian prisoners.
The way they returned, whoever leaked what leaked and Netanyahu was quick to declare that "Israel will not release thousands of Palestinian prisoners."
Immediately afterwards, polls began to be run on the basis of releasing thousands of prisoners, even though there was no such proposal and no numbers were discussed at all.
Immediately afterwards, the government ministers were instructed to go against the "promiscuous deal", which did not happen.
This week, in the second round, the tactics were completely different: the delegation went to Cairo without a mandate at all.
No offer, no discussion, no nothing.
Sit there and listen.
To be on the safe side, a kosher supervisor was sent with them, in the form of Netanyahu's political advisor.
The one who did not agree to participate in the farce was the most knowledgeable and sharpest man, the one who is centralizing the whole issue, Champion Nitzan Alon.
Later it became clear that Netanyahu was manipulating all this in a private forum he had set up for himself, with Gallant and the heads of the arms, without Gantz and Eisenkot.
Netanyahu wants to see the abductees alive - but he wants his coalition more/Official website, Sha_b_p@
On the eve of leaving for Cairo, Dedi Barnea, Ronan Bar and Nitzan Alon sent a document containing a detailed proposal with demarcated boundaries for starting the negotiations. Several options were given there. The intention was to start the negotiations and create a mechanism that would allow progress.
Netanyahu did not share the document with Gantz and Eisenkot.
They got it on their own.
Then he hastened to share with the members of the expanded cabinet and announced that the decision will be made in the expanded forum, where he can convey whatever he wants, provided that it is in the opinion of the gentlemen.
Gantz and Eisenkot realized that they were standing in a circus and that what was wetting their faces was not rain.
I don't know how close this week brought them to retirement.
"We do not stand with Stopper," someone in their environment told me, "we did not enter the cabinet for Bibi and we will not leave it because of Bibi, we entered to serve the interests of the state and as soon as we realize that it is impossible to continue doing this, we will leave. In the meantime, there are heavy issues here, There is the North, there is the South, there are the abductees, there is the American government, the budget, the conscription law. If we realize that we have no influence on all of these, we will not be there."
The transformation is complete.
Netanyahu, who begged them to come in to save him, wants them to leave.
They, dragged in almost against their will, are now debating whether it is time to come out.
There are, of course, also political considerations here.
The polls indicate that the public wants to see the state camp in the cabinet.
Gantz's stability around 38 mandates proves this, although it is possible that this sentiment is already close to exhaustion.
These numbers are also known to Netanyahu.
One of the reasons that makes him see Gantz out, is the hope that it will cut his column of mandates and the lost votes will find their way back "home".
All this time, a shameless defamation and shaming campaign has been going on, in full force, against the families of the abductees who dare to campaign for the return of their loved ones home.
This campaign is led, of course, by Shofar Netanyahu.
The poison machine was also mobilized, in full force.
The audacity of all these breaks all bounds when they accuse the families of raising the rate of Hamas.
The campaign, they claim, leads to the increase in the price that Sanwar demands, when he sees the intensity of public pressure in Israel and the weakness of the government.
It is about vanity and bad mood.
As if Sanwar needs Ronen Tzur to understand Israeli society.
After all, Saleh Arori gave an interview to the journalist Gal Berger at the time and explained to him, in eloquent Hebrew, how much they look at Hamas with astonishment at the commitment of Israeli society to its abductees or prisoners and how much they see it, there in Gaza, as a "point of strength and strength" of Israeli society.
Arori said then that he would have been happy if Israel had not agreed to release so many prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, because "then it would have torn you apart from the inside."
The victory in Gaza - because of the fighters, not because of Netanyahu/the IDF spokesman
Here are the things Benjamin Netanyahu said at the cabinet meeting where the Shalit deal was approved.
Word for word: "My heart goes out to the families of the victims of terrorism, I understand their suffering and their plight, I am one of them. But leadership is tested in these moments in the ability to make difficult, but correct decisions. I believe that we have reached the best agreement that can be achieved at this time, a time of storms that afflict the The Middle East. I don't know if the near future will allow us to get a better agreement or an agreement at all and it's very possible that this window of opportunity would have closed. Finally."
Yes, he said that in 2011, at a meeting where the release of 1027 terrorists was approved, of which 450 were serious murderers, including Yahya Sanwar.
What does he say today?
upside down.
Just the opposite.
The situation is thousands of times worse: this is not one soldier, who sat in tank overalls in a Mark 3 chariot and whose job it was to protect, even at the cost of his life, the country.
There are dozens of citizens here, including adults, the elderly, the sick, women.
They did not go to battle, they were abandoned by the state.
And here, Netanyahu says completely opposite things.
Why?
Apparently it's the same man.
The same floor, the same borrowed crystal, the same deep baritone.
What changed between 2011 and 2024?
It's simple: the Shalit deal was a move to save Netanyahu.
The summer 2011 protest shook him.
He believed it could bring an end to his reign.
The huge numbers of demonstrators filled him with fear and astonishment.
He understood, with his political senses, that it was precisely the public that wanted Gilad Shalit (indeed, signs for Shalit were seen in large quantities at all the demonstrations).
So he released Gilad Shalit to them.
and now?
upside down.
Now if he goes into the kidnapping business, his government will fall.
Almost certainly.
The interests have reversed.
And that is why suddenly there is no "window of opportunity" and suddenly there is no clock working against us.
All that is, all that ever was, all that ever will be, is one thing, one goal only: the survival of the leader.
This is why he released Shalit then, this is why he is not releasing the 134 abductees today.
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana took action this week and demanded that the Legal Advisor to the Government open an investigation against the MK who, according to him, leaked excerpts from the protocol of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee to a journalist.
The leak was from a discussion held about 4 months before the October 7 massacre.
This journalist is me.
Netanyahu released Shalit then, and avoided a hostage deal today, for one reason: political survival/IDF spokesman
According to Ohana, the leaker is MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv (Labor Party). When Shinon Magal asked me if it was true, of course I denied it. A journalist is obligated to keep his sources confidential. Quoting from there, it really does not mean that he is my source. But that is not the point. The leaker is not the story, but the one who is chasing him.
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana proves here once again that he is nothing more than Netanyahu's apprentice.
Taking a dramatic step such as turning to the Ombudsman to open an investigation against an elected member of the Knesset, who enjoys immunity, should be based on some event. In our case, there is no event. The Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset has been known for decades as an almost public forum. In the days when almost everything leaks from the cabinet Political-security, the plenary session of the Foreign and Security Committee has become a kind of journalists' party. Everyone knows it: the MKs, the guests, and especially Ohana himself.
Now I am putting here the leaked text, as published in this column a few weeks ago.
Read and judge, is there anything secret in it.
Is there anything in it that endangers the security of the country?
The meeting took place on June 13 this year.
These were the days of great arrogance in which Netanyahu often ignored warnings he received about what was portrayed as an Israeli weakness in the eyes of its enemies, about a multi-arena campaign, about the danger of a flare-up.
Here is what he said at the same meeting:
"But what are we doing in the face of Iran and its metastases? First of all, we are preparing for a multi-arena campaign. To be clear, we do not have and will not have the luxury of isolating arenas. This means Iran, it means Lebanon, it also means Gaza, and it can reach to other arenas".
That is, Netanyahu was aware of the possibility of a regional war, including Gaza.
He was asked about the Israeli deterrence against Gaza, and said: "With regard to Gaza, it depends on the strength of your deterrence. There is a question here of how to solve this problem, how do you solve the problem that you live in an area saturated with radical Islam that sits on your fence whether it is in Gaza or in Lebanon, Almost like what happened in Syria."
At this point, Netanyahu began to talk about the successful operations against the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, and about the elimination of its senior officials.
"We also reached them by surprise and then we also reached them in an emergency within the operation against the Jihad, because of the same intelligence capabilities, much thanks to artificial intelligence. Time will tell if the balance of deterrence (against Gaza) has changed or not. I think it has changed, but how much it has changed We will know in the future. In any case, the "Wall Guard" operation, which was a very effective blow, pushed Hamas back. But we have to start from the assumption that there could be developments initiated by them or initiated by us that lead to a multi-scene flare-up. The fact that we don't want that, no Says it won't happen. We need to prepare right now, and this is the new thing that is happening. Today, the IDF, the Shin Bet and the Israel Police, we need to be prepared for a multi-arena campaign."
Netanyahu was aware of the possibility of a regional war breaking out, including Gaza/screenshot, PM
Summary so far: Contrary to what he claims today, Netanyahu was deeply aware of the possibility that a multi-arena campaign would develop, including Gaza.
He says that Israel should be prepared for the possibility of war, also in Gaza.
in his voice
Then he was asked about the deterrence achieved in Operation Shomur Homat, and answered: "I will definitely explain to you why it works. Why you can act against a balloon and it doesn't fire. He doesn't fire because Shomor Homat took them back a decade. That's exactly right."
"Why? Because you damaged their naval capability, destroyed the naval capability, the air capability, the underground capability twice, once the attacking tunnels by the ground barrier, this was my initiative in the face of opposition from the General Staff, but I said we would do that. We will deprive them of a huge weapon. A huge psychological weapon like we deprived in the north. It is a huge weapon. I don't know how militarily it is so great, but psychologically it is a terrible thing. So we deprived them. And a second time, we did hit, we didn't destroy, but we showed That we can hit their defensive tunnels inside Gaza itself. And that caused them, and of course we hit commanders, towers, command and control and whatever you want. For them it was a shock. What's left for them? A steep route, that's what they have."
There is no secret word in this text.
Even the topic of "artificial intelligence" was widely publicized, even this week, when it turned out that we identified the figure of Yahya Sanwar in the tunnel using artificial intelligence.
By the way, the text has of course been censored and published in full.
So why did the speaker of the Knesset and the horrified Heaven and Earth demand to open an investigation immediately? It's simple: because this text does not harm the security of the state. It harms Netanyahu's security. Standing in front of us naked and naked, so we are trying to catch the boy who revealed this to the public.
By the way Ohana: The man stood above the Knesset podium as the Minister of Justice and revealed a detail covered by a gag order (the interrogation exercise that was done at the time to Nir Hefetz) as if it were nothing. By the way Netanyahu: This is one of the greatest leakers of the time He once stood above the Knesset podium and waved a "top secret" (but really) document, a Stauber document, which dealt with the sensitive negotiations between Israel and Syria, at a sensitive time.
He hid behind his immunity.
This, and more: Netanyahu was the one who, through his people, leaked the most secret presentation that the IDF presented to the cabinet during Operation Protective Edge. The leak took place at the same time as the cabinet meeting. Tzipi Livni went to the bathroom for a moment and discovered, to her astonishment, that Channel 2 viewers were watching the same presentation that she and the ministers had just seen inside The cabinet room.
Why did he do it? To hide behind the IDF in its efforts to prevent (again) a ground operation in Gaza.
Such is the man.
Nothing he does is done for the security of the country.
It is about his own safety.
If he cared about the country, he would not have released Sanwar, he would not have funded Sanwar, he would have ordered the elimination of the leaders of Hamas one of the six times that the Shin Bet presented him with the "assassination plan", he would have understood and heeded the warnings he was given during The coup d'état is because he weakens and crushes Israel from the inside.
He does not care about the people and does not care about the country, but only for himself. So it was, so it will be.
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