culture
TV
TV review
Itamar Ben Gvir almost convinced us that he was just a cute bear.
Then we remembered he was a fan of a mass murderer
With his criminal case, Ben Gvir could not be hired as a cashier at the supermarket, so he was forced to become a Member of Knesset.
Now he is cunningly making his way to the heart of the Israeli mainstream, with the respectable help of the local media, which does not understand that it is being turned around again.
Tags
Fact
Itamar Ben Gvir
Ilana Dayan
Lucy Aharish
TV review
Living Room Fellow
Friday, 26 March 2021, 09:27 Updated: 09:35
Share on Facebook
Share on WhatsApp
Share on general
Share on general
Share on Twitter
Share on Email
0 comments
Trip Trip
Gal, Big Brother
Personal elections - Ben Caspit in conversation with the chairman of Israel ...
Bull in the middle, Gili Itzkovich
Joey's dress break in "Friends"
"Waffles + Mochi", Michelle Obama
Hannah Ware, "The Perfect Match"
2021 Election Broadcast, News 13, Tamar Ish-Shalom, Audi ...
Justice League
Zehava Ben in the "Big Brother" final
"Fact" on a special election broadcast (Keshet 12)
Itamar Ben-Gvir is a politician of a kind we have not yet met.
In fact, he is not a politician at all.
It totally plays in his favor, both publicly and media-wise.
If one ignores for a moment his ideology and criminal history - it is very easy to fall in love with the lovable teddy bear-I-care figure he has been selling lately.
It comes to him easily, it's who he is.
He has no politician's look, no politician's speech and no politicians' filters.
In a reality where politicians have become such despicable creatures in the eyes of the Israeli public, probably after four wasteful election campaigns and the formation of the largest and most unnecessary government in the country's history, every person portrayed as an anti-politician seems like the least evil.
The problem is that there is a limit to how much ideology and history can be ignored.
In an interview he gave in 2015 to his grandmother Uziel on Channel 7 he told about his rich criminal past.
"I have been arrested hundreds of times, I have been acquitted 46 times, convicted 7 times, a record number of acquittals in the State of Israel," he boasted proudly.
Behind the proud smile lies a past of criminal convictions for rioting, vandalism, incitement to racism and support for a terrorist organization.
With such a criminal case he had no chance of getting a job as a newspaper distributor or cashier at the supermarket, so he was forced to become a member of our parliament.
To the glory of the State of Israel.
This is not the local Nelson Mandela, but a man who until a year ago kept a picture of the abominable mass murderer Baruch Goldstein in the living room of his house.
A mature, educated man, an elected MK who chose to admire a terrorist who murdered 29 people.
Of these, six are children of the age who are not currently vaccinated against corona.
No Poker Face.
Itamar Ben Gvir, "Fact" (Photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)
Do not let his awkward look and the bar mitzvah suits of the hill boys confuse you.
Just because he does not know how to tie a tie does not mean that he does not understand the business.
The day after the election, he arrived at News 12 studio and clearly told Yonit Levy that if Netanyahu formed a government, he would be a minister.
Levy made it difficult and showed him an excerpt from her interview with Netanyahu, where the prime minister clearly says that Ben Gvir will not be in his government.
Ben Gvir smiled.
This is probably a very bad poker player.
He happily explained that if he was Netanyahu's 61st finger to form a government, he would get a ministerial position, and even demanded a modest position for himself - the minister for the development of the Negev.
This is going to be the shortest negotiation in the world. In the
same interview with Yonit Levy he also explained that he refuses to sit in the government with the support of RAAM.
There is no reason not to believe him.
Not because he is a racist who hates Arabs, God forbid, but because of what has already been uttered to him before.
He wants to be the 61st finger in the Netanyahu government.
It determines destinies and overthrows governments.
He understands the power inherent in this and is not interested in transferring that power to Mansour Abbas.
His business card may read "Minister of Negev Development," but in practice he will be the strongest man in the government.
More on Walla!
"Jewish friends cursed Arabs and I was silent. I even nodded in agreement. It ate me up."
To the full article
Was not invited to the studio for the right reasons.
Lucy Aharish, "Fact" (Photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)
It was a special "fact" program on the occasion of the election, with articles about Netanyahu's frantic campaign, a close follow-up of Merav Michaeli and Lior Schlein on election day and a dive into the personal archive of the old program, where an old and prophetic interview with Netanyahu was found.
Journalist Lucy Aharish was also invited to the studio to analyze Netanyahu's recent moves trying to woo the RAAM party. Aharish's views, as always, were interesting and surprising. It is refreshing to hear a journalist who does not speak from position. The great and cynical in Israel, and her opinions, brave as they may be, are not the real reason she was invited to the studio - but her personal life.Not by chance Aharish had to share the same space with Ben Gvir.Ilana
Dayan did not hold back and woven two personal questions into the discussion with Aharish. She asked about hiding her marital relationship with her husband, actor Tzachi Halevi, and then asked her to answer a question from a parental perspective.Nevertheless, the fact that Lucy became a mother about three weeks ago (somehow, by the way) had to be somehow pushed into the conversation. When she interviewed Ben Gvir, she once again pulled out Aharish's personal life and asked if now that he was a Knesset member he intended to pass legislation against the Muslim journalist and her Jewish husband's relationship. It felt artificial, as if Dayan was using Aharish as a visual tool in front of Ben Gvir. In her honor, and in general, why actually out of
120 elected Knesset members, is Ben Gvir the only one invited to the special election broadcast?
Probably when he said the same things the day before in the same studio to Yonit Levy.
If anyone thought that the meeting between Lucy and Itamar would give rise to some verbal wrestling match, he was really wrong at the address.
More on Walla!
This was Netanyahu's worst interview.
He may bring him the election victory
To the full article
Other hymns.
Benjamin Netanyahu in a 1997 interview with Ilana Dayan, "Fact" (Photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)
In the end, it was another interview by Itamar Ben Gvir in which he got to present his cute side in the heart of the Israeli mainstream, without anyone really putting him in front of facts or exposing his extremism.
On election night, Ben Gvir celebrated his entry into the Knesset with a reference to Martin Luther King's mythological speech, "I have a dream."
Instead of apologizing to viewers and handing them vomit bags, News 12 chose to show Merav Michaeli on a split screen telling her supporters: "They managed to murder Yitzhak Rabin, but not his way," while at the same time, Ben Gvir is celebrating on the shoulders of his fans.
It is the same Ben Gvir who less than a month before the assassination proudly held in front of the camera the Rabin Cadillac emblem and said: "As we have reached this emblem we can reach Rabin."
But do not cry over spilled milk or a murdered leader, and here is the boy who ordered the stickers of "Rabin Killer" arrives at the respectable studio in Neve Ilan and negotiates with the prime minister through the media.
He reiterated the statement he made the day before to Yonit Levy and promised not to sit in the government with the support of the PM. While looking at Lucy Aharish, he made it clear that he has no problem with Arabs, but has a problem with the party's "leadership", which he claims supports terrorism. It's a rather ironic sentence when it comes from a man convicted of supporting a terrorist organization and passionately defending as a convicted terrorist lawyer. Ilana Dayan did not confront him with things, and instead chose to talk to him about the struggle of some members of his new faction in the LGBT community.
His answer, conservative and outdated as it may be, she refused to hear to the end.
It is amazing to see a senior journalist, who interviewed presidents and prime ministers, fall head over heels in front of Itamar "We reached the sergeant" Ben Gvir.
More on Walla!
An open but closed wave: a more superficial and circus election night than ever on television
To the full article
She did not confront Ben Gvir with his words.
Ilana Dayan, "Fact" (Photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)
"In all of modern history, there has been only one media outlet that has done more harm to the Jewish people than Channel 12," Yair Netanyahu tweeted on his Twitter profile yesterday (Thursday) of his daily incitement against Keshet broadcasts.
This will not prevent the influential channel in Israel from continuing to work faithfully in His Excellency's service.
It is not clear who the next prime minister will be, but it will take the Israeli media a long time to break free from the strange spell cast on her by Benjamin Netanyahu.
The people of the channel will continue to invite the royal mouthpiece of "Israel Today" to news panels;
They will host in the election studio the host of "Likud TV" who mocked Amnon Abramovitch's disability as part of Netanyahu's election propaganda;
And here, even in the prestigious "Fact" a superbly edited article is projected that presents in a accommodating and romantic way violent bibists who wish death to protest activists.
For dessert, Ilana Dayan will have a pleasant conversation with the frightening symbol (as she puts it) of the violent right-wing extremism, which will prove that the demon is not so terrible at all.
All in all, a cute bear from a party that the spiritual leader of some of its members calls members of the LGBT community "unfortunate sex perverts." The truth is, for a change, it is not certain that Yair Netanyahu is wrong.
Share on Facebook
Share on WhatsApp
Share on general
Share on general
Share on Twitter
Share on Email
0 comments
