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Rina Matzliach interviewed Ganz in silk gloves. After all, there is no need to kick a person on the floor

It was sad to see Gantz's interview with Rina Matzliach - how someone who fought in the Israeli wars and held such senior positions, ends up in the battle for Netanyahu's unification. And also: it is not fair to mention the sins of Amit Segal's father, but it is still the truth, as opposed to the false symmetry he is trying to present to viewers

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1. The only new thing we learned from Bnei Gantz's interview with Rina Maslih in "Meet the Press" is that the reserve prime minister keeps Shabbat. The interview was conducted at the Defense Minister's office on the Friday before Shabbat began, aired just before Shabbat and became irrelevant within hours with the new storm within the government.

According to Ganz, he handles security matters around the clock, but for all other things, he goes on strike on Saturday. This is a legitimate decision, and millions of Israeli citizens do not work on Shabbat just like him. But Bnei Gantz is no longer an Israeli citizen, except for the fact that just like the other citizens of the country, he too is not going to be the prime minister of Israel in the future.

Rina Matzliach referred in silk gloves to the only person in Israel who still believes that Bnei Gantz will one day be prime minister. This was not a political bias. Successful knows how to bite in politicians interviews from right and left. From Naftali Bennett to Ahmad Tibi, everyone snatched bites from her that sent them smearing penicillin all over their bodies. Ganz won a successful marina for a caressing interview reserved only for world haters like Julio Iglesias, for only one reason - compassion. There is no need to kick a person while he is on the floor.

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Ironically, the recorded interview with Ganz was broadcast while the Likud was planning their nocturnal rally for Saturday, in which the party would accuse Blue and White of canceling Sunday's cabinet meeting. He does not regret entering the party unity government, continues to justify the decision to betray his voters and while ministers from his party are already flirting with Netanyahu about defecting to a narrow government, he continues to talk about working for the state.

Like Rina Maslih, I also have no desire Especially in kicking Bnei Gantz's political corpse. In one of the few interviews he ever gave without stuttering or embarrassing mouth emissions, his television character looked particularly melancholy and miserable. How can one be angry with him? A man who served in the IDF for nearly 40 years, who was a fighter, commander Chief of Staff. A man who gave up his privacy and convenience to join politics, and in the face of an unprecedented campaign of incitement and slander almost continued to insist on a governmental alternative throughout three difficult elections. No matter if you come from the right or left, it's sad to see the man who fought in Beirut in Lebanon The first, was Commander Sheldag, Brigadier General, Paratrooper A. And Judea and Samaria in the second intifada, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Command and the commander of the land arm during the Second Lebanon War, fell in battle for Netanyahu's unification.

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2. The election period that may soon be exciting for us makes Amit Segal one of the busiest journalists in Israel, and it's nice to see that he finds time on Saturday night to threaten tweeters on Twitter who wrote things about him that he liked less. And that's all right, we're all human beings, and Amit Segal's right to be harmed and even threatened with a lawsuit if he believes he has been wronged. On the other hand, one of the top journalists in the country might be expected to restrain insulting remarks from private individuals, instead of drifting into a trend of less-than-appropriate silencing lawsuits, which are supposed to wave the banner of freedom of expression.

Like it or not, anyone who tries to downplay one of the esteemed journalists currently working in Israel for a derogatory nickname like "Balfour's Shofar" is sinning against the truth. Just as a faculty member sinned to the truth when he tried to present on Friday night (or whenever the segments are not filmed with him in "Studio Friday") a false symmetry between the political violence on the right and left. Amnon Abramovitch sat in the studio and smiled quietly, he knew his colleague's methods of action. Roni Daniel, on the other hand, frothed and floated as if this was the first time he had encountered a sophisticated interpretation on behalf of Segal. Dana Weiss and Kushmero also tried to silence the staff, which is exactly what he wanted. Here, three Smolens are trying to silence the lone right-winger on a panel just trying to say his learned opinion.

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Those who do not really have an opinion. There is no symmetry between political murders on the right and left, and the attempt to accuse the media of unfair coverage because an article was written about Yona Abrushmi who murdered a left-wing activist, nor about Udi Adiv who was convicted of espionage is pathetic at best, and suspicious at worst. It is hard to believe that a wise man like a faculty member truly believes in this nonsense.

So here's a reminder: on the one hand there is Yona Abrushmi and also Yigal Amir, Baruch Goldstein, Yossi Chaim Ben David, Ami Popper, Jack Teitel, Yoram Shkolnik, Eden Natan Zada, Asher Wizgan, Nahum Korman, Gur Hamel, members of the Jewish underground And many more and not good. On the other hand, the spy Udi Adiv, who, despite Amit Segal's allusions, won an extensive article by Yossi Mizrahi on Segal's channel, less than four years ago.

Amit Segal claims that it does not embarrass him to mention that his father was convicted of belonging to a terrorist organization, and in this case he is absolutely right. It is not fair to judge a man by the deeds of his father, and the shameful deeds of Hagai Segal do not attest to his son. However, the attempt to undermine the coverage of political violence on the right through "opinions" is already his shame.

3. The media should be committed to the truth. The pursuit of truth is the most sacred value of every journalist, right or left. It seems that recently the editors of the major channel editions have decided to abandon this holy of holies for the sake of a journalistic value devoid of any journalistic value: "The Balance." According to this balance, in every panel on which a journalist identified with the left sits, there should be a journalist identified with the right. Supposedly this is supposed to work, if the journalist on the right tells a lie, the journalist on the left will contradict it - and vice versa. In practice, the studios have become a shouting arena where whoever shouts his lies louder will win.

Instead of the editors of the editions relying on their reporters and commentators to report truth, they decided to "balance" the studio. One will tell a lie, the other a truth, and the loudest will win. The result is lots of hours of news every day, with too many people presenting their biased opinion as facts. When it comes to ratings and it works great, ask Ofira and Berkowitz who have somehow become bright and innocent to veteran and esteemed news people. how sad.

And so Erez Tadmor found himself in the "Meet the Press" studio on the standard of a journalist, because there is nothing like the founder of the "If You Will" movement to balance Dror Ben Yemini and Meirav Ben Ari in the studio, who are known as far-left activists, of course. But the problem, as stated, is not the imbalance, but the presentation of Tadmor under the hat of a "journalist on Gali Israel and Israel Today." Perhaps, just maybe, it was worth mentioning that in addition to writing columns in Sheldon Adelson's newspaper, Tadmor was until less than a year ago the Prime Minister Netanyahu's speechwriter, spokesman for the Likud's information staff and even a candidate on the Likud list for the 2019 election. According to which "there is a much greater chance of political violence on the left than on the right" would have been received with the ridicule it deserves.