In the video: Netanyahu on the operation in Rafah, after his conversation with Biden it will take some time to prepare for it/official website
The seeds of disaster that have recently sprouted in front of us and are growing wild were sown in 2015.
Remember that trip by Netanyahu to address both houses of the American Congress, behind President Obama's back?
Netanyahu and Dermer hatched this move secretly, without sharing it with the American administration.
It was unprecedented: a foreign leader arrives to address both houses of Congress in the US, without informing the president, without receiving the blessing, while taking advantage of connections in the main rival party and in order to torpedo the most important international move led by a sitting American president. No It was like this in the annals of America.
The official excuse was an effort to convince the American legislators not to support the nuclear agreement between Iran and the powers, which was then in the final stages of formation. But this effort had no chance in the first place. I remember how the leaders of American Jewry, if "K and key Jewish lawmakers were shocked when the matter came to light. I remember the outrage in the White House. A few days earlier, Secretary of State John Kerry was engaged in a sensitive diplomatic mission on behalf of Israel. "He worked on it all day, answering the phones of dozens of people," he told me at the time A senior official in the White House, "He did it at Israel's express request, and after two days it becomes clear to us that Netanyahu, all this time, was planning to come here to stick a knife in the president's back.
" which she enjoyed for 50 years, know that it started there, in 2015. Almost everyone who understands something about the issue then begged Netanyahu to get off his mind.
"The damage will be long-term", they warned him, "you will never be able to restore the ruins you are destroying now in the delicate fabric of our democratic support", they urged him, "it will be impossible to fix it".
Netanyahu is the father of the Iranian bomb, and the ruiner of relations with America/Image processing, Mark Israel Salem, Carl Court/Getty Images, Reuters
AIPAC leaders, who maintained a dignified silence on the outside, tore their hair inside the room. Prominent Jewish-American philanthropists tried to dissuade Netanyahu, but to no avail. All warnings fell on a concrete wall. Netanyahu claimed he was coming to Washington "for history." That he was not Willing to be silent when America signs the nuclear deal with Iran. Explain to him that he has no chance of stopping it. That his chances of persuading two-thirds of Congress to vote against an agreement signed by a sitting president are zero. Maybe even below zero. He didn't want to hear it. He was in a trance. After all, he understands America better than anyone.
Netanyahu knew that he would not stop the nuclear agreement. He is not a fool. But that was not his real goal. He knew that such a speech, two weeks before the elections in Israel, would ensure his victory. He needed an adrenaline shot in the form of 20 Standing ovation breaks in front of enthusiastic American lawmakers. That's the only thing that interested him. Beating Yitzhak Herzog and the Zionist camp in the elections. The destruction he left behind, the seeds of destruction of the most important strategic asset of the State of Israel, interested him less.
Today, Iran is already a threshold state Nuclear. Not because of the signing of that nuclear agreement, but because Netanyahu convinced President Trump to withdraw from the nuclear agreement.
If the US had not gotten out of it, the Iranians would still be under intrusive surveillance at a distance many times greater than a bomb. But we are now dealing with relations with the US, not the Iranian bomb.
Netanyahu is the father of the Iranian bomb, and is ruining relations with America.
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The demographics in America are Democratic, even if Trump wins in November/Reuters
There, in 2015, it started - but that's not where it ended.
Because in addition to the war that Netanyahu declared on the left wing of the Democratic Party, he also "erased" American Jewry. For him, the great, rich, influential, Zionist, pro-Israel, devoted and warm American Jewry has become an unnecessary matter.
Any Israeli who held a diplomatic post in North America during those years will tell you this: Bibi wiped out the Jews.
For him, they no longer exist.
This is why he approved the outline of the Wall in the government, then canceled it at the request of the ultra-orthodox parties.
And then he did something similar to the conversion outline.
He identified all the glorious bridges that connected us to our brothers across the ocean, and set them on fire.
In those years, Bibi used to memorize to anyone who agreed to listen that American Jewry no longer exists, in fact. They are still here, but the huge rate of assimilation will mean that in the near future they will simply disappear quickly. A short distance away there is an abyss and you are swallowed up in it," he described. He preferred to put his zitons on the evangelical Christians, warm and authentic lovers of Israel, those who do not disappear and whose support is solid and ideological. And we must not forget that the evangelicals are also much more right-wing than the Jews. They are Republicans, while most The Jews in America are Democrats.
Well, that turned out to be kind of a catastrophe, too. Because the demographics in America are Democratic. Even if Trump wins in November, it won't change the fact that the growing populations in America are Latinos, blacks, immigrants, and Democrats. White, traditional, conservative America is going and is fading. Along with it, the traditional American support for Israel is fading. Support on which stands the central cornerstone of Israel's national security. Support that has always been based on the fact that the two major parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, support us at almost the same rate. No country has had such an asset ( which is not one of the US's traditional allies, such as Britain).
only for us
Netanyahu managed to dismantle it.
undermine the entire structure.
The damage he has caused, and will continue to cause, to this strategic asset, is immeasurable.
Netanyahu arranges a trip to Washington "on the head" of Biden - Dermer understands the potential for disaster / Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
When you look today at the alarming numbers regarding the American public's support for Israel, you understand the depth of the rift.
Unlike in the past, this time we don't have troops capable of dealing with it.
Netanyahu succeeded in alienating US Jewry, which sympathizes with Israel's democratic values less and less. The generation that remembers the Holocaust is disappearing. The sons and grandsons of the warm Jews who cried every time they heard the word "Israel" look at the bibist coalition and realize that this is not the Israel it is about Their parents dreamed. There is no one to do the work on the campuses, in the black and Latino communities, in the public opinion. Israel is losing its assets and it can only make claims to itself.
To demonstrate this, it became clear that this week, for the first time ever, we dropped from the status of "liberal democracy" to the status of "democracy Electoral." We, Brazil and Poland. Respect.
When this column was written, Netanyahu is trying to dismantle what is still left and arrange for himself another trip to Washington, "on the head" of a sitting Democrat president. When I was told a few days ago that Netanyahu wanted to repeat the 2015 exercise, I was Surely this is a joke. On Thursday I saw it in the edition and it became clear to me that this joke is also at our expense. This time, even Ron Dermer understands the potential for disaster. But Netanyahu insists. They are currently trying to arrange for him to give a speech to only Republican lawmakers. This is even worse than the alternative. It is missing A precedent. This is an admission by the Prime Minister of Israel that the Democratic Party is lost and Israel now only puts its trust in the Republicans.
This is a live suicide.
None of this means it won't happen.
The angel of destruction, as prophesied by the late Yitzchak Shamir, will not rest or be silent until he completes the work of destruction. The consolation is that he is already quite close to the task.
I do not know how it will end. I am told that the Americans are proposing that President Herzog replace Netanyahu and receive the honor of kings from both houses of Congress and both parties. The chance that Netanyahu will support this compromise is zero, because it is good for Israel, less good for Netanyahu.
The leader of the democratic majority does not outright rule out joining the invitation to Netanyahu.
Keeper/Official Site, Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel, Reuters
And yet, this is not the end of the verse.
Barak Ravid tweeted yesterday that Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer does not outright rule out joining the Republican invitation to Netanyahu.
This could possibly happen if a deal is indeed reached to release the hostages and Netanyahu agrees to wait with the operation in Rafah.
Working on it now.
To understand the desperation of the situation, it is worth remembering that Netanyahu could be received in Washington with applause and address all the existing houses of Congress, if only he would disconnect for a moment from his crazy survival journey.
The Americans offer him the real "deal of the century": to end the war in Gaza, to establish an alternative to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, to return the abductees, to also end the conflict in the north through an agreement that Hochstein will formulate, and to complete the circle of peace around Israel with full relations with Saudi Arabia and the official establishment of the "American Axis" "In the Middle East, from Abu Dhabi and the port of Bahrain via Riyadh, Amman, Jerusalem, Cairo, Rabat and other countries.
Netanyahu refuses.
It is more important for him to keep Ben-Gvir in the coalition.
"I am the only one who can prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state," he screams in our ears.
Is he really required to establish a Palestinian state to get this dream deal?
The answer is no.
He is required to agree to some convoluted formulation that will renew the political horizon in the Middle East.
The last version I heard is something like "passaway to revised Palestinian authority".
The real destruction of the house.
After all, Netanyahu has already given the Bar-Ilan speech and negotiated at least 3 times for the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 67 lines with an exchange of territory. Did anything come of it? Fever. The Palestinian has not yet been born to be able to give up the right of return or East Jerusalem as the capital, and therefore the business This one will always fall at some point and it will always be the other party's fault.
Ben-Gvir's terror falls on Netanyahu in full force/Shlomi Gabbai
Unless this is the case, our side is controlled by messianic extremists of the type that took over Netanyahu. He is fortifying his opposition because Ben-Gvir's terror is upon him in full force. Instead of eating the whole cake and receiving all the inputs and benefits without providing actual goods, he simply Throwing everything into the dustbin of history in order to manage to scrape another two months into the coalition, or the war, or both.
In the meantime, we are forced to witness the further disintegration of Israel from its position, its assets and its good name, at a much greater rate than the rate at which we dismantle Hamas: the Americans demand a written commitment on The way they use the weapons they supply us, Canada has announced an arms embargo, the Netherlands and other European countries are considering a similar embargo, the US and Europe are imposing sanctions on violent settlers and various organizations in the country, the European Union is starting to talk about withdrawing the association agreement, book publishers, research institutes and universities Abroad refuse to cooperate with Israeli institutions, potential investors attract investments in Israeli start-up companies, and this is a very partial list.
When Netanyahu was asked, in the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, about the state of information in America, he agreed that the situation is serious. When asked if it is because not enough is invested Money, he answers in the negative: "It's not a question of money, it's simply because there are no people, you're surrounded by people who don't know how to connect word for word (in English).
We need to find."
Who surrounded the prime minister with the shortcomings of the personalities around him? Let him check at home. There is no country in the world where there are more talented, worthy, eloquent, fluent in English (and almost all languages in the world), creative, determined, hardworking and patriotic people than Israel. But these are not in the prime minister's environment. Only the flatterers, the lazy, the rotten and the most lacking in personality go there, the produce that he and his emissaries somehow scrape from the bottom of every barrel in the vicinity. Then he comes with complaints.
Eisenkot: "Smotrich's problem is the lack of strategic understanding"/Knesset spokeswoman, no
Exactly one year ago, on March 22, 2023, Gadi Eisenkot went up to be interviewed on Radio 103, by Anat Davidov and Nasim Mashal.
He was reacting to smug things said the day before by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, thanks to the continuation of the legal revolution.
Eisenkot is one of the regular warners of the legal legislation and the deep rift it creates in Israel.
In the interview, he called Smotrich a "word juggler" and noted that the public's trust in the judicial system is still almost 2 times higher than the trust in the government and almost 3 times higher than the trust in the Knesset.
And this is where Eisenkot got to the point: "Smotrich's problem is the lack of strategic understanding that we are in the most explosive security reality in the last fifty years. In my view, we are in the most serious situation that the State of Israel has faced security-wise since the end of October 1973. What is happening in the north with Hezbollah is a strategic turn, a deterrence of 17 years was broken. This turn is reflected in the fact that they are sending the terrorist to carry out the most serious attack since the Second Lebanon War, as a step towards escalation. If he had succeeded in detonating a bomb on a bus, it would have ended very badly. This is a serious incident, I am convinced that there will be a thorough investigation in the army. But there is something here above the IDF - the lack of response is a message of weakness to a very serious incident."
Eisenkot was asked if he were the Chief of Staff now, what he would recommend: "A quick and immediate attack, and I believe from my experience that this would not have led to an escalation but would have conveys a message of strength. But this is a very weak government. We also see this with Hezbollah, we see in the Palestinian arena what is happening in the Gaza Strip and a continuous lack of response. The most disturbing thing for the near future is the Palestinian arena. We are in a very explosive situation, also in East Jerusalem, Yosh, Gaza Strip, entering Ramadan with weakness of the Palestinian Authority, prisoners' strike.
Instead of freeing the army to deal with this huge threat, instead of realizing that this is what we need to focus on and not on the same legal reform of appointing judges for another six months along with personnel legislation, but instead focus on preventing escalation, improving the readiness of the IDF. Instead of all this we see the talks yesterday At night, which is a night of words without seeing the overall picture and understanding where it can take the coming period."
Eisenkot is one of the cold fish that swam in the General Staff, in the spring of 2023 he was a kind of prophet of wrath/image processing, Yonatan Zindel/Flash 90
Eisenkot added and warned against the continuation of the coup d'état.
He spoke about the crisis, which is causing significant damage to mutual bond and solidarity in Israeli society, and the IDF's readiness for war: "In my wildest imagination, I could not have imagined the situation that is happening today," he said, "but the responsibility lies with the Israeli government.
Instead of continuing with the predatory legislation, see the overall picture, the threats, and make brave decisions."
Two days before this interview, Eisenkot said similar and even harsher things in a speech in the Knesset. I also had the chance to hear him privately. Eisenkot is not one to chase journalists. Contact Communication was never his forte, even after he got out of uniform. And yet, in those months, he spoke to me several times. In each of those conversations, I heard him say things I'd never heard before. In retrospect, I think he was having some sort of panic attack. Never I have seen or heard him in a similar state. Eisenkot is one of the coldest fish that ever swam in the HQ.
Even in the midst of the Second Lebanon War, he was relatively calm.
Always analyzes things calmly, detached from unnecessary emotions or prejudices, and does not shy away.
Well, not anymore.
Eisenkot of spring 2023 was a kind of prophet of wrath and destruction.
He saw the processes, he understood the risks.
He read the intelligence materials as a member of the subcommittees of the Arab League, he was shocked by Nasrallah's audacity in the attempted attack in Megiddo, and he saw the internal disintegration of Israeli society as a result of the coup.
He warned, warned, wrote letters, drafted documents and gave speeches, but The messianic delusions and nationalist madness of the Netanyahu coalition continued to race toward the abyss. Two or three days before the massacre, Netanyahu himself took the opportunity to his home studio, where he was asked by Yanon Magal about the repeated warnings of Amman against a multi-arena war, and responded with a denial. "But I I'll tell you one thing," he added with typical smugness, "we always prepare for this possibility, we always prepare, and not only do we prepare for this possibility, we prepare to handle it 360 degrees."
Now he handles 360 degrees in an effort to handle the blame and responsibility for the other. In the last few weeks, I have heard from Minon Magel that Ehud Olmert is also guilty of the Shalit deal, because he actually wanted to sign it even before Netanyahu, and was thwarted by Ehud Barak (I'm serious, this is the official Shofar version).
Now they claim that it was Gadi Eisenkot, not Netanyahu, who brought the Qatari envoy with the money to Gaza.
This, of course, is poor nonsense of the lowest bibistic kind.
The man with the keys, the chosen leader, the eternal prime minister and the only captain of our sinking ship, will always find in Yadda the responsibility for his failures and disasters.
He is always clean.
I didn't know, I didn't hear, I wasn't told, they gave me a drink, there was no one to grab my coat lapel, etc.
What is horrifying here, is that there are those who buy this nonsense.
There are those who believe that they are worthy of discussion.
Netanyahu saw Hamas as a profitable asset, a kind of small and obedient attack dog/Reuters
By the way, the Qatari money: this happened in 2018, when Abu Mazen decided to stop transferring the Palestinians' settlement funds (the taxes we collect for them and return to them) to Gaza.
Hamas has fallen into a serious crisis.
Netanyahu was frightened.
Hamas in crisis?
This must not happen.
They may still get angry and launch rockets or riot and Netanyahu never intended to hurt them.
He saw Hamas as a profitable asset, a kind of small and obedient attack dog.
So together with the head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, he decided to enlist Qatar to transfer the missing cash to Gaza every month.
Cohen brought the goods.
What remains is to wrap it in staff work.
So Netanyahu ordered the national security headquarters, which is under his control, to prepare a staff report.
She was prepared, and wholeheartedly recommended the move.
Mission Accomplished.
So what are those basing themselves on who are now trying to claim that "it's not Bibi, it's Gadi"?
On the fact that at the end of the process, the security establishment was also asked for its opinion on the move and did not express any objection.
By the way, even if this detail stood on its own, it does not transfer the responsibility from the incumbent Prime Minister to professional bodies that "did not oppose".
This is the meaning of responsibility in a democratic regime and Netanyahu himself expressed it many times: "In Israeli democracy, as in any democracy, the one who decides is the political echelon. The one who executes is the military echelon. That's how it was, and that's how it will be."
The effect of the event in Shifa reverberates throughout the Gaza Strip.
Shifa Hospital/screenshot, IDF spokesperson
To the point: the Qatari story was indeed transferred to the recommendations of the army and the security establishment.
Eisenkot was then in the last month of his position.
The summary of the army's opinion was that "if the Qatari money goes directly to the needy families in Gaza, then there is no objection."
A few weeks later Eisenkot was already a citizen.
In the meantime, it turned out that the Qatari money was arriving in cash, in suitcases full of dollars, directly into Sinwar's hands.
Netanyahu was asked about this on the plane, during one of his frequent trips abroad (with his wife). This is the right step.
Every step, without exception, has a price.
When you take leadership steps, there is always a price, if you can't bear the price, you can't lead.
And I know how to bear the price."
No, he didn't answer "It's Eisenkot". He answered that it was his responsibility, that he was the leader, that this step could have a price and he knows how to bear it. Well, on October 7th we were presented with the bill and it was time to pay the price. The monstrous murder machine that Netanyahu funded on the Nahal Oz fence, attacked us. Now, when he is required to bear the price, as he promised, he has disappeared. As usual. The
IDF, meanwhile, continues to wait for the decisions of the political echelon regarding the future of Gaza.
The army has long since moved from war (28 brigades at the peak) to combat (plus or minus 4 brigades).
The operation at the Shifa Hospital brings excellent results mainly thanks to the principle of surprise and the execution of the 13th Fleet and the cover forces (Brigade 401) who stormed and surrounded the hospital in a flash without the hundreds of terrorists who started nesting in it having time to leave.
The effect of the event reverberates throughout the Gaza Strip and "helps" Hamas understand that the IDF is serious about converting Gaza into the West Bank and achieving the ability to enter, exit, clean up and deal with terrorism anywhere in the Gaza Strip just as it has between Bethlehem and Jenin.
Netanyahu is dismayed (from Ben-Gvir and Smotrich) and is unable to say the words "Palestinian Authority"/Reuters
But there is a problem.
In the Palestinian Authority, security activity is based on the fact that there is a functioning Palestinian Authority. It deals with the daily lives of the Palestinians, with local crime and violence, and its security cooperation with Israel allows the IDF and the Shin Bet to deal with terrorism at the same time.
There is nothing in Gaza, at the moment. Everything That it is Hamas that is trying to return to wherever the IDF has finished its work.
This week the IDF dismantled in Shifa what Hamas had begun rebuilding there, after the IDF had already dismantled the Hamas infrastructure in Shifa in the opening round.
This is how it will continue, unless someone comes to their senses and convinces the hostage, also known as Benjamin Netanyahu, to make the right decision and start organizing a Palestinian governing alternative that is not Hamas and has some connection to the Palestinian Authority in Gaza.
In the IDF they call it "some Mohammed with a weapon, who will distribute the food". This is also what the Americans say. Netanyahu ignores. For him, there is nothing to talk about. Until the messiah himself descends on the Strip to replace the IDF, we continue.
Come on, let's go.
As if entering Rafah would add some leeway to Netanyahu's "complete victory" legend.
What is there in Rafih that wasn't in Khan Yunis?
Nothing and nothing.
On the contrary, Khan Yunis, in terms of the original strength of Hamas, is more important than Rafih by orders of magnitude.
The story is not how many Hamas battalions you dismantled, but whether you are able to prevent their return and fill the vacuum with non-Hamas elements.
At the moment, Israel has no real answer to this question, because Netanyahu is deterred (from Ben-Gvir and Smotrich) and is unable to say the combination of the words "Palestinian Authority", even though there is nothing behind them.
Netanyahu and Yahya Sinwar sit in the same boat and pursue the same goals/Reuters
As things stand, Netanyahu boasts that the idea of establishing the temporary port in Gaza is "my idea" at all, without noticing that he is buying his status as the Palestinian Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl.
They never dreamed of a port and lo and behold, they got one.
Not just any port, but a port operated by Qatar, the country that has been funding and feeding Hamas (under Netanyahu's auspices) for years.
But the main thing is that no official of the Palestinian Authority will receive any recognition.
What's the bottom line?
That Benjamin Netanyahu and Yahya Sinwar are sitting in the same boat and pursuing the same goals: One of Sinwar's biggest ambitions is to cut off Israel from the US. Netanyahu fulfills this ambition for him very effectively. The second goal is to add additional fronts to the campaign in Gaza. The Arabs of Israel, the Palestinians in the West Bank, Hezbollah Etc. Here too, Netanyahu's continued adherence to Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and the extremists, helps Sinwar to continue pinning his hopes on this goal. Sinwar's third goal is to prevent, at any cost, the return of any Palestinian force to Gaza that is not Hamas. This is the biggest nightmare His. And here, too, the one who fulfills Sinwar's dreams is Netanyahu. When it becomes clear, he will again blame Eisenkot.
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