On video: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement in Kirya 29.02.24/le
Netanyahu is desperate, there is no other explanation.
Until yesterday, he assumed that his Block 64 would allow him to float above the fatal polls for him, all the way to some generative event that would occur even before the elections (whether it be a war in the north or alternatively normalization with Saudi Arabia) and that might change the clear direction in public opinion, but then it came Gallant.
It is impossible to exaggerate the dramatic nature of what the Minister of Defense did.
In his voice he spoke of equal burden, but in the subtitles only one word was recorded: elections.
It is true that Netanyahu can apparently fire him again and hope that the coalition survives, but parting ways with Gallant could be the beginning of a domino effect - Barkat, Edelstein, Dichter and others.
It is stressful, but in no way justifies what Netanyahu is trying to do, which is worse than anything attributed to him so far, from criminal to political.
Because what Netanyahu did last night, in his speech, is simply unforgivable.
Let's start with what was perhaps ridiculed, but at least not as ugly as the sequel: in his distress, Netanyahu turned to his best ally, the camera - and asked to convey some messages to the nation.
Netanyahu understands that the demand for (more) equality in the burden is a consensus that stretches almost from March to religious Zionism.
He also understands that he needs the ultra-orthodox to survive politically.
Therefore it slips into the realms of fantasy.
He tells the soldiers that they may have to serve a few more months, but after that - what do you know.
will benefit from a 90% discount on the price of land for construction.
where?
In the places where he sent his son to live overseas, he became Hamastan and Hizballestan, two "insecurity strips" within the country's borders.
This is the same Netanyahu who promised to fight the creators of the cost of living, freeze the mortgage (later fixed property tax), reduce energy prices, regulate by law free education from the age of zero and more.
90% discount on land for soldiers who choose to live in the internal security zone created by the person who sent his son to live in Miami/Eli Ashkenazi
Even in an era where we have already gotten used to the fact that promises made by politicians are only meant to be broken, the percentages of non-existence of Netanyahu's promises are impressive.
In fact, sometimes it seems that anything in our world is possible, unless Netanyahu promised that it would happen (by the way, the young regular soldiers who because of their age still believe, can ask the Myloamines in their units if they are already giving up on the "unprecedented" benefits they were promised).
Even if Netanyahu is happy for another promise that is nothing more than a hot air balloon, it is hard not to consider the logical contradiction hidden in his words.
On the one hand, Netanyahu explained, Israel is a step away from absolute victory.
Let's say for a moment that you really want to believe him when he promises an imminent victory - and who wouldn't want an absolute victory?
The problem is that in the next sentence he goes on to talk about the disaster of having an election system under fire.
If so, Mr. Prime Minister, why don't you announce elections early next year, let's say in January 2025?
In this way you will also ensure your rule until then, you will also have more than enough time to boast of that absolute victory, which in your opinion is just around the corner - and you will also ensure that the election campaign will not start until after the holidays.
Here - even victory, even elections not under fire, what's wrong?
So it is true that Netanyahu himself is unable to follow the crooked logic that he sketched and sketched, so far we are dealing with almost nuances compared to the next part of his words.
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Between Hebron and Ramat Hasharon
Netanyahu explained that there are no general elections similar to municipal elections.
In the APC where the fighter from Hebron sits with his fellow from Ramat Hasharon, the elections to the local authorities do not create the same level of tension ("emotions" as he defines it) as elections to the Knesset. He is afraid - so he specifically said - that in such a case there will be "shooting inside the APC" (again , as defined).
Netanyahu may have forgotten the times he sat in an APC, so I volunteer to remind him, as someone who spent most of his regular service in tents and APCs.
Inside the APC there is a perfect brotherhood of fighters. I shared tents in the army with soldiers like me who were preparing for the morning mass while they were wrapped in tallit and tefillin on their arms, with Druze who all they cared about was going home for Nabi Shuayev's celebrations and also with those who returned home in their own cars, at an age when all of us We spent hours on the road in hitchhiking and buses. Meretz voters and Gandhi voters, a kibbutznik and a settler.
Nothing will break this brotherhood of fighters, certainly not any politician. Even on the path of negation, even when you feel like arguing and fighting a little, you quickly remember that a few meters away are Sinwar or Nasrallah - And the glue strengthens again.
This is the reason for the crazy turnout on the day of the command, even though only the day before (not even as a metaphor) it seemed that we were experiencing a social rift that could not be worse than it.
And here, also to this Holy of Holies, the place where the only whispering ember left from the Israeli tribal section is kept , Netanyahu wants to break through - into space, smash and defile.
"Shooting inside the APC"?
really?
Are you suggesting that I raise the barrel to my brother in arms, who shares the fighting compartment in the APC with me? Who are you, a scheming and quarrelsome politician to try to start a war in the only place where Israeli purity remains untouched?
Netanyahu and his entourage love open wounds that can be defiled, but so far They contented themselves with wounds that were open even before the Prime Minister took hold of the horns of the altar. For example, the tension between religious and secular or between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim. He prevented them from uniting, squeezed out of them all the pus that allowed the continuation of his rule. And here came the war and reminded everyone where the real enemy was.
It was Salvation for the people of Israel, but depressing for those who in his day fanning hatred became an art. So much so, when he was excited by the threat of elections, he invented a rift that did not exist, a political rift between two fighters who share the same APC and may shoot each other, just like that according to The Prime Minister's proposal, in the event that one of them wished for the success of the "Religious Zionism" list and the other for the success of "Yesh Atid".
Do you have it more than a divisive, divisive and inciting fraternal war?
After all, the whole secret of Israeli existence is that I can go out to demonstrate in Kaplan, for example, even in Caesarea, but in the field - while we are all waiting for the jump to the next action - I will share the same cup of coffee even with Itzik Zarka and Rami Ben Yehuda, just because above the pocket of all three of us is written the explicit name: IDF.
Soldiers waiting to be transported to the front, Yom Kippur 1973. As soon as someone thinks that the country cannot exist without him - whether it is a party (Mapai) or a person (Netanyahu), the only question is how big will the price be paid / The National Photo Collection, Herman Hanania
Golda for the advanced
The problem with Netanyahu, many of his opponents explained - and in retrospect they were right - is not his ability to run the country, to represent Israel among the people or his views (which are Israeli center-right, not fundamentally different from those of Gantz and Eisenkot, for example, but in style).
The problem is that he has a systems madness according to which what is good for him is more important than what is good for the country.
He sincerely believes that Israel has no existence without him.
This is a dangerous twilight zone, bordering on incompetence.
Staying in power at any cost is not Netanyahu's invention, but at least once it was partisan and not personal.
Even in the historical Mapai, they did not believe that the State of Israel would exist without the party.
Before the first election of the 1970s, the Golda government explained to Henry Kissinger that even if there was something to talk about with Sadat, then it would cost them power (which made him draft the same famous sentence according to which in Israel the domestic policy is the foreign policy).
Golda was right - the formation under her leadership ignored the long term, winked at the will of the people and clung to power. Only on the way it abandoned more than 2,500 soldiers to death.
Fifty years later, Netanyahu clung to power, at any cost. He too, like the hated system, will lose it soon. And if so, the only question that remains open is the question of the price we all must pay.
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