By Dr. Aaron Lerner 3 April, 2021
There is a way for Binyamin Netanyahu to steer the ship of state out of what’s becoming a perfect storm:
Application of Israeli Law to the Jordan Valley via a voting marathon in the Knesset before a new government is formed which includes Bennett and Saar.
#1. It is an historic move which both Saar and Bennett can easily cite to justify joining a government which still has Netanyahu at the helm.
#2. Recent events make clear the urgent need to apply Israeli law to the Jordan Valley. Events this weekend highlighted the recklessness of the implicit assumption that the current Hashemite regime will remain in power for eternity by advocates of staking Israel’s security on Jordan. Developments in the policies of the Biden Administration also make Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley an urgent matter.
#3. PM Netanyahu can justify the move as being the only way to end what has become a perpetual cycle of elections. As Henry Kissinger noted, “Israel has no foreign policy; it has only a domestic policy.”
#4. Passing the law BEFORE formation of the government rather than AFTER is explained by the simple fact that at this stage of the game, any politician who stakes his future on Mr. Netanyahu honoring a promise is seen as a fool.
#5. Technical note: A Knesset vote is required since Gantz holds half the votes in the cabinet and the Blue White ministers who would have supported the move left Blue White before the elections and are no longer ministers.
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@ Sebastien Zorn:
Yes, this would be great, if only we had statesmen in the Knesset and not pandering children obsessed with their child-like personality quibbles.
I recall having read somewhere that “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad”
I don’t know where the madness in Isreal originated from, but it will lead to our destruction if we don’t find a way to check these squabbles and deal with fundamental issues in a meaninful way as is discussed in this video. Or some other viable framework. But we need a functioning gov’t!
Yes. https://www.facebook.com/ImTirtzuEnglish/videos/841234336604569/
@ Sebastien Zorn:
On another tack. Here’s somehing in a novel I’m just now reading; I broke off to post it here . A Louisiana description of a Liberl Democrat is portrayed as “an alligator mouth and a hummingbird ass”…
I thought it priceless, and had to share it.
@ Edgar G.:
I missed that. Never mind.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
It also says that
“Bennett has yet to make a final decision ON HOW TO RESPOND TO LAPID’S OFFER…repeat …OFFER”
Also the report say that Lapid made numerous demands on Bennett, which I won’t go into, you can read them for yourself, or already hav, but they were very onerous and really committed Bennet to doing what his followers will vote him out over .I’d say they are already uneasy and restless..
@ Edgar G.: It says including Yamina comes to 59 and that Lapid agreed to Bennet’s terms.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Th item didn’t say Bennett agree, but Lapid agreed…I think Bear has it right. He is “weighing it up”…maybe to play “hardball” with LIKUD. Has anyone thought of THAT…….!!
At this time in every election the impossible only becomes the possible at the very last minute of the last hour. At least it used to, until the past 2 years. A LL THE FAULT OF THAT MAMZER MANDELBLIT and his cronies.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Sorry for butting in Seb, but don’t 59 ans 2 usually amount to ..what was it now..ah yes..61…..??.
@ Bear Klein:
Are you including Sa’ar in the 65 seats??. ..If you are, don’t. You may be thinking of a few strays from B&W, and Sa’ar’s litte group.itself, which may be feasible.
But…the BIG problem still remains. It is THIS time RIGHT NOW when Biden’s handlers are getting into their stride, which would be far too perilou/s to allow Bennett to try to handle them. It is Netanyahu who is needed, as he always has been. A guy who takes home a pittance like the $50,000 a year, is comapratively poor, and OBVIOUSLY dedicatd to Israel, like none of the others, who are all very wealthy, who can do and HAS done such miraculous things to benefit even the people who are hounding and exscoriating him…
There are no words suitable enough to express the admiration and praise that should be showered on him like soft rain. But….Jews..what can you expect….except jealousy, hatred, greed, and more of the same…
It seems that nobody here really read AND absorbed Conrad Black’s op-ed. A pity. He said it all.
Too successful…PULL HIM DOWN… !!!
@ Bear Klein:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/299222
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Bennett can now go to Bibi let me go first in a rotation and NOT second and we will form a right wing government with at least 65 seats. Let Yamina merge into the Likud.
He now has leverage on Bibi!!
In fact they can explore making Bibi the President with the possibility of keeping him out of prison.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Yes, I saw the story so does NOT mean Bennett has agreed to do this. He is weighing his options.
Lapid made an offer!! We will see what happens right now, Saar will not join a coalition with Bibi at the top. Smotrich will not agree to a coalition with Mansour Abbas supporting it from the outside. So unless something changes on this front or two Blue- White MKs agree to over to a Bibi lead coalition no right-wing government is possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Lapid
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/299615
top story front page, right now.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Did he agree or his just weighing his options?
Is Bennett, who just agreed to rotate with Lapid, really to the right of Netanyahu? Does he have the skills to make sure Lapid never gets in as Bibi did with Ganz? It’s Bibi or bust. Better a fifth election than the kapo alternative.