On video: Ben Gvir ascended the Temple Mount: "We will not surrender to a terrorist organization" (Walla system!)
On Monday, when asked by Gali IDF reporter Shahar Glick where he would get budget funding to lower the
taxes on disposable utensils and soft drinks, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said: "Trust me, I will find a source," an answer he repeated several times.
Almost meaningless. After all, Smotrich has decided and we know that he will, whether we give him the green light or not, but language hides a somewhat more meaningful statement. This "trust me" is not another one of those evasive or waving answers. In this government, it is an ideology Really.
What is the reason for thinking so? Only a day passed and the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir spoke with great confidence in an interview with Yonit Levy, until he was asked about allowing prayer on the Temple Mount and broke down: "When I don't want to answer, I don't answer." In other words - also Now that I am a minister in the government, I will do what I want, just as I was raised and educated. Trust me.
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Blitz on the start.
Yonit (Photo: screenshot, News 12)
Levy wasted no time.
Like a soccer team that decides to kill the game in the first minutes with an early goal, it started a blitz and tried in the very first question to present the minister like a thief in the night, only he was far from panicked and launched a quiet but effective counterattack.
"You are the ones who wrote 'fold up, fold up, fold up,'" and explained that he went up to the Temple Mount to "inform Hamas that there are owners here."
It didn't take her too long to get a confession out of him that he did it mainly to put a finger in the eye.
Sorry, confession?
It is more correct to say that it was a statement full of pride.
"The truth is yes. Until the moment you said 'fold up, fold up, fold up', we thought it was a great exercise that we would go up to the Temple Mount this very morning," he replied.
Under Ben Gabir's clear ideological motives hides a childish naivety, which he does not try to hide.
Now, Kosher, he can take off the gloves in his war on the leftist media, for his own sake and that of his voters.
In fact, it is not clear who is his bigger enemy, Hamas or the studios that convey messages that are not to his liking.
Either way, these are things his audience likes to hear, so why not give them more of that candy?
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Ben Gabir (Photo: screenshot, News 12)
"Why blame the media, Itamar Ben Gabir, don't you need to grow up already?"
Yonet scolded him in the tone of a grumpy mother in an American film from the fifties.
He, in his own passive-aggressive way, answered her: "I don't blame you", but also pointed a finger at her for the longing to flare up.
Then he moved on to talk about his war on racism.
When Ben Gvir uses the phrase "war on racism" the universe collapses in on itself.
Hearing him speak like this is like listening to Donald Trump preach against capitalism or Vladimir Putin declare that he is a pacifist.
We know exactly that the way in which he interprets racism is not exactly the way in which the person from the settlement interprets it, and still, there is considerable charm in that.
This dissonance is even cute.
That's the thing with Ben Gabir - with the happy smile of a bear that has received honey on his face, he heartily wraps his very clear messages: he will fight racism against Jews, he will fight protectionism, he is against LGBT discrimination,
It's hard to define Ben Gabir's performance as a knockout, but he certainly did in this interview what he's been doing for more than two years: continued to push himself to the center and score points in the mainstream.
It wasn't the last time he answered only the questions he wanted to answer, it wasn't the last time he went up to the Temple Mount to show who's boss here.
It certainly wasn't the last time he said that "if my son told me he was gay I would hug him" and bought more liberal hearts.
Trust him.
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