1. The Shin Hour
When asked what the plan was, Sarah Netanyahu said something like “We will burn the streets, we will take out the masses, they will not be allowed to conduct a trial.” So we got there. I do not know how much the masses will cooperate (when this issue goes to print there are a few thousand in Habima Square), but it is clear that the hour of Shin has come and from now on the instruction is to leave nothing but scorched earth.
The gloves were removed, the last restrictions were lifted, the brakes and balances were scattered to every wind. He is trying to rule anarchy, he is inciting his followers against the state, he is not sick of anything and operates, with all his might, the machine he has built. This is the machine dance, on the metaphorical blood of us all.
Such a propaganda, slander, leverage and filth machine has never been built here. Its powers and abilities are almost infinite. It has all the goodness of the country: huge networks of bots, fake profiles and likes are purchased from all over the world (with an emphasis on the Far East). Gray cyber arms whose operation is confidential and any connection between them and the intrusion of the “Iranians” into the mobile phones of Bnei Gantz and the attempts to infiltrate the mobile phones of Ayelet Shaked and Gideon Saar are completely imaginary.
This machine has a large and raging herd of mesmerized, enchanted, hate-filled trumpets. It has quite a few Knesset members whose task, no matter how appalling, is not small in size. It has, of course, the conductor of the orchestra, Yair Netanyahu. It has quite a few outposts within the mainstream media. It has hundreds and thousands of WhatsApp groups, Facebook and other social networks whose job it is to echo the lies, incitement and Pike investigations with all their might.
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The method of operation is clear: Pike broadcast (or write) an investigation, some lie or some detached conspiracy theory. Frame it in a decent shell (tie commentators on Channel 14, for example). Remember the “senior in the Navy” who was mentioned here a few weeks ago? The one who claimed there was no submarine affair at all? But did not say he was a business partner of one of the defendants? So such.
At that moment, an organized and orchestrated trumpet campaign was launched. The TV sync becomes a catchy tweet, readable post or agile WhatsApp and within minutes accumulates tens of thousands of views. At this stage, Yair Netanyahu and the MKs are joining the family’s authority. There is no shortage of such, as is well known. Some were appointed, personally, by the family.
Next up are billboards. At a certain point also comes a “survey” of state witness Shlomo Pilber. It was followed, in quite a few cases, by a “mass demonstration.” The strategic weapon, Benjamin Netanyahu himself, provides artillery support according to need and considerations. If he wishes, he will echo the messages, lead them, tweet them or speak them.
In special cases, he will try to differentiate himself from them. What about him and all this? Like, for example, when he was quick to shake off Dudi Amsalem’s bullying messages yesterday. Really, where did Amsalem get all this from? Where did he hear these texts? Who taught him to pour as much gasoline, acid, cyanide and hatred as possible on everything that holds the sensitive and complex framework of this country?
Sometimes it’s a story about toilets. Sometimes Pike investigates polling stations. Sometimes science fiction about cannabis and donations. And of course, the lie industry associated with the indictment, the trial and the evidence. The common denominator is fixed: these are outright lies or fabrications that rely on a minor factual stump and are inflated to huge proportions.
Shimon Riklin said this week on the blast channel that there were 1,500 wiretaps or the use of spyware in Netanyahu’s files. He read the prosecution’s statement and that was the conclusion he reached. Yes, the number 1,500 appeared in the message, but in a different context. The State Attorney’s Office examined 1,500 cellular numbers of all the witnesses, suspects and those connected to all of Netanyahu’s cases and the cases related to them. How useful were spyware found? two. Both had a court order. Do you think Ricklin does not know this truth? he knows.
Another mouthpiece sat on the same channel and reported, with endless knowledge, that the recorded conversations between Netanyahu and Noni Mozes had been sucked out of Ari Haru’s cell phone through the illegal use of spyware. boom. If that’s true, it’s a hysterical scoop. In reality, there was no use of any spyware on Ari Harrow. Haru’s cell phone was seized on a judge’s order when he was arrested long before Netanyahu’s files. The contents of the mobile are lawfully pumped. The “tip” about the treasure waiting inside this cell phone was handed over to the police by Harrow’s attorney. They also know this truth. And this time, too, it does not stop them from lying.
Ben Caspit’s full column – in “Maariv-Weekend”