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Etter en lang innledning går artikkelforfatter over til å beskrive en tale Netanyahu nylig har holdt.
Dette avsnittet i artikkelen er kalt
"Jabotinsky and I"
Her hyller Netanyahu Jabotinsky og sin far, - de er hans ledestjerner.
Mao: For å forstå Netanyahu må man forså hva Jabotinsky sto for.
"With Eyes Wide Open, Netanyahu Marches Israel Toward the Abyss"
Utdeag: (HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde)
"Jabotinsky and I
On Tuesday afternoon a memorial ceremony for Ze’ev Jabotinsky
was held on Mount Herzl. Netanyahu, who gave the main speech, dedicated
his opening comments to “a trait of leadership … that made Jabotinsky
one of the giants of Zionism: His ability to identify opportunities and
dangers at any given time. … He had a prophetic ability to predict the
future and foresee developments that would affect the fate of our
people.”
After exhausting the superlatives for the
father, the son found time to shower some on himself. He noted the
principles that Jabotinsky, the leader of the Beitar youth movement and the right-wing Irgun militia, believed in, such as “the Iron Wall,” the notion of a militarily strong Jewish community surrounded by enemies.
Netanyahu
said he imbibed such principles “from Jabotinsky and my father,”
adding: “Even a hundred years after the principle of the iron wall was
set in the writings of Jabotinsky, we continue to implement it
successfully.”
Konklusjon:
Netanyahus ledestjerne er Jabotinsky., og forsterket av BiBis far.
Det definerer forholdet til palestinerne og Israels nabostater: Knallhard makt - "Iron Wall".
EDIT:
27. juli 2023
Advarsel fra Tamir Pardo, Mossadsjef 2011-2016:
"Ex-Mossad chief: Netanyahu allies worse than KKK, overhaul is his ‘master plan’
Tamir Pardo claims PM is in control, it’s an ‘urban legend’ he’s under thumb of extremist partner..."
Er det noen som kjenner Netahanyau, så er det Mossad-sjefer.
Han henger udiskutabelt bjella på Netanyahu.
Skudeneshavn 22. juli 2023 / 27. juli 2023
Jan Marton Jensen
På Twitter:
4. november 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1720761731796910540
Ny info:
27. juli 2023
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-mossad-chief-netanyahu-allies-worse-than-kkk-overhaul-is-his-master-plan/
Kilde:
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Jabotinsky
21. juli 2023
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-21/ty-article/.premium/with-eyes-wide-open-netanyahu-marches-israel-toward-the-abyss/00000189-748f-de6d-a1ef-f5efad990000?lts=1690048141139
HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 21. juli 2023
Analysis | With Eyes Wide Open, Netanyahu Marches Israel Toward the Abyss
Events
in Israel over the past six months are entirely Bibi's responsibility,
handiwork and shame: a defense, social, economic, diplomatic and moral
catastrophe. Gantz's main opposition party won't come to his rescue
Credit: Amos Biderman
In 2016, an American journalist asked Benjamin Netanyahu how he’d like
to be remembered. “As the protector of Israel,’ came the reply.
Let’s set aside Iran’s nuclear weapons
program, the growing strength of Hamas and the weakening of the
Palestinian Authority, the increasing power of Hezbollah and its
transformation from a terror organization into an army with tens of
thousands of precision-guided missiles. During Netanyahu’s 12
uninterrupted years as prime minister, none of these threats was
“eliminated.” That was an unrealistic expectation.
His
boasting notwithstanding, not everything depends on him. Like every
leader, like every human being, he has failures as well as
accomplishments.
On the other hand, what has been happening in Israel in the past six
months and what is yet to come is entirely his responsibility, his
handiwork and his shame: a defense, social, economic, diplomatic and
moral catastrophe. Israel has never radiated weakness and vulnerability
as it does today: The military reserves are falling apart,
the United States is turning its back, foreign leaders are staying
away, the economy is sustaining daily blows and the societal rift is
growing deeper and wider. “The army is still ready for battle,” the
military spokesman announced drily this week. These words must be read
and reread. The eyes see but the brain refuses to believe this even on
the 10th reading. “Still?”
The title to which Netanyahu aspired has been denied to him. He doesn’t have the time it would take him to repair the immense strategic damage he has wrought on the state and its critical systems.
He will go down in history as Israel’s official liquidator; as the man
who received a functioning state on an upward trend on December 29, 2022
and turned it, almost instantly, into a bleeding, riven entity. This is
not a “vibrant” and “resilient” democracy,
as he and President Isaac Herzog told U.S. President Joe Biden and
Congress. This is a democracy under attack, whose elected government has
declared war on it, seemingly determined to grind it into the dust.
This is a democracy hanging by a thread, which if not for the impressive
protest movement would have become a thing of the past, a dim memory,
by now. The leaders of the protest, people who before January were
mostly anonymous, are already deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize.
A demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv this week.Credit: Itai Ron
Early this week, the Prime Minister’s Office issued instructions to
select cabinet members and coalition lawmakers for handling the media in
light of the protracted collapse on all fronts and from every
direction, as follows: 1. Blame the rift between Washington and Jerusalem on opposition leaders and reserve-duty generals.
The subtext, or subliminal message if you will: Biden is an old,
clueless sucker who gets his information from fake news. 2. Israel’s
Ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, is to blame for
Netanyahu’s non-invitation to the White House. 3. The expanding and
dangerous phenomenon of reservists not reporting for duty is the fault
of the principled soldiers and officers, our finest sons and daughters,
who never before, under any government, hesitated to leave their homes,
work and families when called to action. 4. The barbed messages
emanating from the Oval Office are the fault of The New York Times
columnist Thomas Friedman, who is “hostile” to Netanyahu. 5. All the
other ills that are besetting us are the fault of Attorney General Gali
Baharav-Miara, the “most dangerous person in the country today,”
in the words of the troublemaker in the Justice Ministry, David
Amsalem, who has received dangerous backing through the thundering
silence of Netanyahu and Justice Minister Yariv Levin.
Everyone else is to blame, as always, except the person at the head of
the pyramid. He is only responsible for successes. In tandem, Netanyahu
is waging a systematic propaganda campaign, wise from his perspective,
against “insubordination.” The issue bothering him most is one that lies
within his comfort zone. In this battlefield he has the advantage, in
contrast to the battle over the reasonableness standard, where he is at a
disadvantage. This won’t give him points in public opinion, but it will
at least bolster his “base,” which loathes “elites” and pampered
residents of tony Tel Aviv neighborhoods.
Demonstrations against the judicial overhaul in Jerusalem on Thursday.Credit: Sraya Diamant
Only he and his toxic envoys, such as Amsalem, Shlomo Karhi and Galit
Distal Atbaryan, could transform a critical struggle over the face of
Israel’s democracy into a sterile yet sickeningly effective
identity-politics debate. The head of a government replete with draft
dodgers, with representatives of entire sectors that preach
institutional draft dodging, while extorting and receiving immense
budgets for institutions that encourage evading conscription, with criminals who were found unworthy of
serving and women opportunistically posing as religious, is repeatedly
inciting against and attacking with venom the people he labels
“refuseniks.”
When the process started, people were
divided over repealing the reasonableness clause. Over time, despite the
issue’s complexity and the feebleness of the media in explaining it,
more people have realized the scope of the horror, thereby increasing
the number of protesters. Netanyahu lost the narrative battle when he
tried to fire Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. He is now losing it again.
He didn’t think masses of people would protest a supposedly technical
matter, giving Levin and Simcha Rothman the green light to proceed,
assuming he was on firm ground. He is willing to pay a huge price,
frightened of his base which is inflamed by the extremists he fostered.
He is walking toward the abyss, with eyes wide open.
Updating the story
U.S. President Donald Trump
described his administration’s policy toward Iran as “maximum
pressure.” That description also fits the Biden administration’s policy
toward Netanyahu.
Not
toward Israel – which is still a strategic ally enjoying all the
privileges of close ties with America – but toward the man heading it,
who is so loathed as to be virtually a pariah. Any “warmth” or
“friendliness” there may have been in Netanyahu’s phone call with Biden
reflected the president’s attitude toward a democratic Israel, not
toward the prime minister leading it down a suicidal path alien to their
“shared values.”
President Isaac Herzog addressing the U.S. Congress on Wednesday.Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP
Biden was well-briefed and understood how critical this week and the
start of next week are. That explains the barrage of diplomatic cruise
missiles launched at Netanyahu from Washington – the White House
spokeswoman’s stubborn refusal to confirm that the two men would meet
there, the briefings to Friedman and the advice from “senior administration officials” to believe the Times columnist (and not Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s most political national security adviser ever).
In the run-up to President Herzog’s visit, Netanyahu vented his rage on
anything that moved. His diplomatic tantrum finally ended in the
longed-for call from Biden, followed by the conflicting stories.
The moment the call ended, Netanyahu’s
people said it was warm, friendly and didn’t include a word about the
judicial overhaul. Officials in Washington erupted and took care to
describe a tense call with massive emphasis on Biden’s warning against
the legislation and its ramifications.
Who should we believe? The White House or the Prime Minister’s Office? Come on, really. Netanyahu’s lying manipulation of the call, which humiliated the president, didn’t exactly help repair the relationship.
The cold shoulder from Washington and the fog surrounding the meeting
are driving Netanyahu and his wife Sara crazy. They desperately need a
nice trip to a respectable destination, with all its perks. Not just a
hop over to Cyprus, like the one planned for next week. That’s why we
were told this week about the government’s decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara and, more important, that Netanyahu will “soon” visit Rabat.
A bit of perspective: Israel never had a problem granting Morocco
recognition, and the previous government also discussed doing so. But
the Bennett-Lapid government had conditions – upgrading Morocco’s
representation in Israel from a liaison office to an embassy,
inaugurated by Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, and signing a
series of trade agreements.
Israeli lawmakers voting on the bill to overturn the reasonableness clause in the Knesset on Wednesday.Credit: Olivier Fitoussi
But Rabat took its time, the government
changed, and now Netanyahu is granting the king’s wish for a red carpet.
That’s how desperate the Netanyahus are for a state visit overseas.
The
visit itself has no real value. The Israeli Liaison Office in Rabat was
inaugurated by then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, and five ministers in
the current government have already made pointless visits to Morocco, a
friendly destination for guests. Unlike the occupants of the White
House, 10 Downing Street or the Elysée Palace, King Mohammed VI isn’t
worried about Israel’s democratic future.
Instead of staying in his burning country and doing what one would
expect of a sane leader, Netanyahu is looking for trips and honor.
That’s how a five-hour visit to Cyprus (including meetings) became a
two-day holiday, no less. Sara’s presence explains it.
With her, there are no quickies. She demands the whole package – tours,
shopping, meals at glamorous restaurants and generally laundry service
as well.
No one to talk to
On
Monday, the Knesset will vote on whether to cancel the Supreme Court's
authority to declare a government decision unreasonable. This means a
shattering of the corruption ceiling, which already kept rising every
time Netanyahu formed a government. If the governing coalition follows
through, the new law will provide cover for the wantonness of the
current coalition.
Until the vote, Netanyahu still has the
option to seduce the opposition with empty promises about “broad
agreements” and a “discussion” later on.
On Wednesday he was preempted by Benny Gantz,
who learned the art of trickery from the best. In a prime-time
announcement, the chairman of the opposition National Unity Party
offered the prime minister immediate talks on the reasonableness issue.
(Talks that wouldn't create “an opening for corruption,” he noted,
probably to the sound of laughter from the government benches.)
Benny Gantz on Wednesday offering the government talks on the reasonableness standard.Credit: Olivier Fitoussi
His second condition was a commitment that
any future legislation on the “reforms” would be done by broad
agreement. However you look at it, it’s a nonstarter.
In
the hours before the announcement, Gantz and his party's Gideon Sa’ar,
Gadi Eisenkot and Chili Tropper met in a side room to decide what to do.
Some believed that Netanyahu, in his distress as the reservists threaten to forgo reserve duty and the Americans ramp up their proverbial carpet bombing, would say yes.
Either way it’s a win-win, they said. If he
says yes, we stopped the downslide. If not, everybody will see who the
obstructionist is.
“In
the end, despite all our sympathy and support, the protests have their
limitations.” Tropper told me. “You can’t offer the public more and more
protest. And it’s not that we’re naive. Even if Bibi would say yes,
this wouldn’t guarantee us that in the next session he wouldn’t restart
the madness and continue with the unilateral legislation. Still, we felt
we had to do something that might stop the accident that's about to
happen.”
Tropper is relentless in his pursuit of
compromise. In recent weeks he has been in constant contact with three
legal experts: Raz Nizri (a former deputy attorney general,) Yedidia
Stern and Yuval Elbashan. They've been in frantic contact with Netanyahu’s people: Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs and the minister for whatever need be, Ron Dermer. The jurists, none of whom is a great liberal, tried to reach an agreement on the reasonableness standard.
Theoretically,
Netanyahu had an interest in it, to assuage the reservists and the
Americans. The three updated Tropper. Bottom line: Fuchs and Dermer, on
behalf of the prime minister, said no, even to the relatively generous
offers presented to them.
Chili Tropper speaking in the Knesset on Monday. "Today the big extremists are in Likud."Credit: Sraya Diamant
Tropper hears the voices and reads the
op-eds urging Gantz and his party to offer themselves as spare parts to
replace the two extremist parties in the government, Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism and Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit.
“Not
an option,” he rightly says. “They used to think we’d replace Smotrich
and Ben-Gvir and all the problems would be solved. But today the big
extremists are in Likud – Levin, Distal Atbaryan, Amsalem,
Karhi, [Tally] Gotliv. Last time [in the 2020-21 national unity
government] we had 17 lawmakers and we couldn’t deal with that bunch.
Now we’re 12.”
Jabotinsky and I
On Tuesday afternoon a memorial ceremony for Ze’ev Jabotinsky
was held on Mount Herzl. Netanyahu, who gave the main speech, dedicated
his opening comments to “a trait of leadership … that made Jabotinsky
one of the giants of Zionism: His ability to identify opportunities and
dangers at any given time. … He had a prophetic ability to predict the
future and foresee developments that would affect the fate of our
people.”
The audience had no trouble divining the
identity of the leader to whom the speaker ascribes similar traits. Then
he got to the crux of the matter.
“My father, Prof. Benzion Netanyahu,
flew to London on the eve of the Holocaust and convinced Jabotinsky to
move his center of operations from England to the United States. Both of
them, Jabotinsky and my father, saw the difficult condition of the
Zionist movement. They both crafted a firm and informed Zionist line to
extract our people from their straits.”
Netanyahu described his father’s work after
Jabotinsky’s death in great detail. Shortly after arriving in the
United States, Netanyahu Sr. “continued in his efforts to persuade the
American administration to support the establishment of a Jewish state …
that would serve American interests. It was a revolutionary idea!”
Anyone
unversed in the history of the right-wing Revisionist movement may err
in thinking that Jabotinsky and Netanyahu Sr. were a pair of titans,
which they weren’t. Benzion was the leader’s aide for a few months;
later on he did diplomatic work in the United States, but it was
unrelated to Jabotinsky.
Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday speaking at the memorial service for Ze'ev Jabotinsky on Mount Herzl.Credit: Sraya Diamant
The son’s choice to dedicate more than a
few words to his father at another man’s memorial is part of his habit
of always placing himself, his father or his wife at the center of the
event. Any event, relevant or not. Everything revolves around them,
everything started with them, everything will end with them.
Without Bibi there would be no country, without his brother there would be no Entebbe, without his father there would be no Zionism. “Whose memorial is this anyway?” one of the attendees asked himself.
After exhausting the superlatives for the
father, the son found time to shower some on himself. He noted the
principles that Jabotinsky, the leader of the Beitar youth movement and the right-wing Irgun militia, believed in, such as “the Iron Wall,” the notion of a militarily strong Jewish community surrounded by enemies.
Netanyahu
said he imbibed such principles “from Jabotinsky and my father,”
adding: “Even a hundred years after the principle of the iron wall was
set in the writings of Jabotinsky, we continue to implement it
successfully.”
For a moment it was unclear why the
audience had gathered on Mount Herzl. Whose praises had they come to
sing? The commemorated? The commemorator? His father?
“We,
his disciples,” Netanyahu called himself and Likud's lawmakers. It’s a
miracle that the tombstone didn’t shatter. Disciples, maybe, but not of
the movement’s founder Jabotinsky or of his successor, Menachem Begin.
Maybe of Meir Kahane, Joseph McCarthy, Vladimir Putin or Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Without blushing at all, Netanyahu waxed
wistfully about the deceased's spirit of “national unity.” Jabotinsky
“would never have accepted the incitement to objection to serve in
Israel’s military. … That’s the end of the military, undermining the
foundations of our common existence; it could destroy the house. …
Jabotinsky would have harshly castigated those who incite to rebellion
to destroy all that we’ve built here together,” said the inciter in
chief and despoiler of national unity.
Here,
for some reason, he forgot to mention his father and his brother Iddo,
who signed a petition calling for objection ahead of the 2005 Gaza
pullout. Not fair. If you’re going to bring family into it, go all the
way.
Speaking of national unity, what about Mr. Itzik Zarka,
the darling of the Likud brass from the chairman on down? It's a week
since we were graced with his deep thoughts on the Holocaust, and
Netanyahu’s promise to offload the prodigal son has yet to be fulfilled.
Maybe
it’s due to Zarka's threats about the evidence he has on his phone, or
simply because parting is such sweet sorrow. After all, they're all of
the same flesh and blood; Zarka is just a particularly extreme mutation
of Amsalem.
