Gideon Sa'ar announces his retirement from the government/Niv Aharonson
A well-known, successful and popular trick of radio broadcasters is to broadcast long songs to arrange a short break for themselves.
Do you need to run to the bathroom to empty your bladder?
They play "Hotel California" by the band Eagles ("the eagles" in Hebrew, and not "the eagles" as radio broadcasters used to mistakenly call them for decades).
The same applies to taking a cigarette break or making an espresso.
As far as is known, Hila Korah and Danny Kushmaro have never been seen with a cigarette in hand during a broadcast, but nevertheless they used this well-known trick yesterday.
In the role of the famous guitar coda of Joe Walsh and Don Felder, Gideon Sa'ar appeared on the screen of the main editions, a politician so gray that in a wonderful country they never bothered to look after him for a real imitation, but simply sent Dodo Erez and told him to do the only character of Dodo Erez : his uncle Erez.
No one ever complained about the impersonation of his uncle Erez because no one cares enough about Gideon Sa'ar.
That's part of its charm.
Despite the state style, the serious look and the successful political conduct - and perhaps precisely because of it - the public never "fell in love" with Gidon.
The only ones who took comfort in his arms for a short time were leftists who saw him as a good strategic tool to topple Netanyahu.
The right, fed up with Netanyahu, found this alternative precisely in Benny Gantz for some reason, and not in Saar the ideologue.
Gideon Sa'ar/TPS, Yossi Zeliger
Channels 12 and 13 gave Gideon Sa'ar's resignation speech from the government more than seven continuous minutes without interruption, during the peak viewing time of the opening of the main broadcasts.
While Israel is in an unprecedented crisis vis-à-vis the USA, while 137 abductees are still dying in captivity in Gaza, while IDF fighters continue to fight in Gaza and are forced to hear about another "conscription law" which means that an entire sector will not enlist in the IDF - the editions simply let Gideon Sa'ar to speak non-stop, and without justification.
All seven minutes of Sa'ar's speech could be summed up in 11 words. "After the ultimatum he set was not accepted: Gideon Sa'ar announced his resignation from the government." Coincidentally or not, this was exactly the title of the news of The political reporter Tal Shalu is here on the Walla website. Viewers of the editions could be content with these 11 words, and if they still wanted to justify the fact that they sent a team to cover Sa'ar's press conference for them, the news could have been spiced up with a nice sound bite with another 28 words from the speech: "I am not can bear responsibility as long as I have no, in my judgment, a practical possibility to influence the direction of the policy.
I just don't see any use in it anymore.
We didn't come to the government to warm chairs." That's it. As Shlomo Artzi is wont to sing: We don't need more than that. We
need to remember a few things: Sa'ar - and like him also Yifat Shasha Biton - indeed only warmed chairs in the government. This, as mentioned, he said himself. In any case, the most important decisions are made in the war cabinet, where they did not find a place for Sa'ar for purely business reasons. There was no justification for giving Sa'ar, who received 2.7% of the votes in the Maariv poll last weekend and remained below the threshold, a place around the table of the most fateful decision-makers in the country. Netanyahu could not to justify placing Sa'ar on his four mandates in the current Knesset for the War Cabinet, and leaving Smotrich and Ben Gvir out. Sa'ar also knows this, so it's hard not to think that this whole "ultimatum" was his way of getting out of the government and presenting himself as an alternative from the opposition. By the way, also Lieberman, who has consistently flanked the government since the beginning of the war, is waiting for him there.
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In light of the insignificance of Sa'ar's speech, it is not clear the television channels' haste to broadcast live the non-dramatic announcement, which everyone who watched the news or surfed the Internet during yesterday knew was about to arrive.
When will our media get rid of Gideon Saarim, these stormtroopers who know how to work well in front of the political reporters but less well for the public.
And in general, the more you think about these words, the less important they become.
Gideon Sa'ar resigns from the government.
How do you say in Leaz?
Big Fucking Whoop.
The meaning: there will be two less ministers without a portfolio in the government.
The implication for those with a little more than a goldfish's memory would be that Sa'ar's word is just as valuable as any politician's, whether he presents a "state" facade or not.
A reminder, for those who have forgotten: Sa'ar has stated at every opportunity that he will remain in the government as long as the war continues, even if Gantz and Eisenkot retire from the government.
In an interview he gave on February 4 to Aral on Channel 14, Sgal talked about a tense faction meeting whose bottom line was that the emergency government should not be dismantled. "I've been saying this all along.
The emergency government is essential [for] carrying out the October 7 agenda.
Those who run for a political-internal agenda when we are still fighting both in the north and in the south, maintain an agenda of October 6.
[This is] essentially going back to the internal division and the Jewish wars when we still have a war with the enemy... I was happy to see that this is not only the opinion in the faction among my friends for 'New Tikva' but also among my members of 'Blue and White.'
" For leaving the government, for those who leave the government for a petty reason on a chair in the exclusive club. How in a month and a half, the one who said that sitting in the government is essential for the needs of the war against the enemy, became the one who "runs for an internal political agenda" and actually "carries out the agenda of October 6" Apparently, in the end we are more comfortable with the Jewish wars.
The only one who tried to present these facts on the broadcast was Amit Segal, but his words were ironically cut off precisely because the broadcast switched to 7 minutes of Gideon Sa'ar spouting meaningless words almost like Glenn Perry's lyrics in "Hotel "California" of the Eagles. And maybe all the conspiracies are actually true, and the whole puzzling political move of the last month of "Gidon" will converge on the comeback of the decade: a reunion with the nemesis Netanyahu in the Likud party. As the song says: you can cancel your membership of the party whenever you want, but you can't leave forever.
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