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At Netanyahu's press conference, he focused on all the wrong things
What the Prime Minister sold to Israelis at the press conference is not really our new friends or the variety of reasons to make ties with them - but the message that thanks to peace it will be cheaper to fly over them on the way to other destinations. Guarantee? Mutual respect? Speed to Brazil
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Nadav Menuhin
Sunday, 25 October 2020, 08:06
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In the video: Benjamin Netanyahu's statement to the media.
24.10.20 (Photo: GPO)
With the announcement of the forthcoming normalization with Sudan, it can be said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in recent months brought three important and welcome agreements to Israel - with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and now with our new friends in Khartoum.
"Expanding the circle of peace," the Likud calls it.
What does this mean?
What is peace?
What is normalization?
A variety of answers can be offered: cultural exchanges, recognition, trade, cooperation, education for mutual respect, assistance and guarantee in times of crisis.
Lots of wonderful things.
Hello, as Ehud Manor (and Sarah Michal Yanai) once wrote, is a useful word.
Useful in what way?
At last night's press conference, Netanyahu emphasized disproportionately, across a celebratory map, one of the fruits of his peace - the shortening of flights to East and West, beyond Sudan and the Emirates.
"You can see it here. We are now flying east, over Saudi Arabia to the UAE, to Bahrain -
to India, to the east. It saves hours and a lot of money of course of flights
," the prime minister said, presenting it on
the Middle East's
flight map '
, With arrows coming out of Israel to the southeast and southwest, and continuing both beyond the borders of the region, "and we are now flying west,
over Sudan
, some of our agreements made even before we announced normalization, of course through Chad, with whom we also established relations,
Brazil and South America That's a huge change
. "
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He will still be offended.
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdukh (Photo: Reuters)
What are the changes to flights to Brazil now?
Who cares about the Far East?
What are we talking about here?
Netanyahu is apparently not interested in cultural exchanges, aid and guarantee during a crisis with Sudan or Bahrain.
Or maybe he thinks it does not interest the citizens of the State of Israel.
For him, apparently, the main contribution of the peace contracts is the upgrade of the foreign tourism system, and the shortcut to more distant destinations.
What he sells to Israelis at a festive press conference is not really our new friendships, with whom he reached historic agreements, nor the plethora of reasons to visit them and make connections with them - but the message that thanks to peace with them it will be cheaper and faster to fly over them on the way to other places.
A bit of an insulting way to celebrate a partnership, I would say.
This is a diplomacy of skips: the prime minister concludes agreements with the Persian Gulf states to skip over the Palestinian issue, now he is proud that it will be possible to skip them on the way to India.
Instead of emphasizing brave friendships within the neighborhood in which we live - especially the shortcut to places outside it.
And maybe this is just a disconnect from the public: Netanyahu, the leader of the red state, chooses to sell Israelis dreams of short flights on the way to exotic destinations, while they are immersed in a severe economic crisis, the local tourism industry is in difficulties and so are the airlines.
These obstacles are much harder to skip.
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Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: Government Press Office)
And one more thing: Netanyahu announced at the press conference that he would propose to the cabinet to "dramatically" increase the fines for institutions and entities that do not respect the directives of the government and the Ministry of Health.
The Netanyahu government has no moral mandate to decide this: when senior officials go over the guidelines themselves, and postpone decisions until the last possible moment, there is probably no institution in this country that symbolizes disrespect for the struggle in Corona like the Israeli government.
Not a matter of violating guidelines in the midst of a health crisis, right, but when the government and its leader announce tougher penalties they simply admit loss, their failure to lead the public, and that they have nothing else to do but hit civilians in the middle of a huge economic crisis.
When more and more violations are discovered by the officials themselves, and none of them pays any public price for it, then by what justification is the punishment for the citizens being tightened?
Again, politicians have no one to blame but themselves.
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