A look at the events of the past few weeks and the negotiations that took place between Israel and Lebanon with American mediation and French assistance, raises the suspicion that the Prime Minister pulled the head of the opposition into a trap. Lapid kept silent, managed the negotiations and let Netanyahu and his echoes scream. He knew what he would sign (and what he wouldn’t) and let Netanyahu embroil himself with ridiculous statements and unfounded claims knowing that all of this would be smeared on his face very soon.
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Netanyahu helped it happen. He won’t miss an opportunity to attack the post-Zionist, anti-Israel, Muslim Brotherhood annihilation government, right?
No, he didn’t bother to find out before he started talking, to check before he started shouting. The details are marginal. Come to a briefing with the Minister of Defense? lol There is nothing they can teach him. He knows everything and he decided, in advance, that this was a bad agreement, period. He will not let the facts spoil his campaign.
But this time he went one rig too far. When he realized what had happened, sometime in the middle of the week, it was already too late. He was locked in the cage of the fools, there is no going out and no coming. The keys were thrown into the sea, somewhere between the “Shark” rig and the buoy line. In the last message he published, he no longer claimed that the agreement was illegal and did not solemnly announce that he did not consider himself bound by it.
His internalization of his situation is slow, but clear. He announced, however, that he would handle the agreement as decisively as he had handled other bad agreements inherited from previous governments in history. Oh well. You can relax. Just as he canceled Oslo and the disengagement, so he will cancel the gas agreement. On the other hand, he may decide to once again return Hebron to Arafat.
The situation is humiliating: in front of Netanyahu stood the chief of staff, the head of the Mossad, the head of the Shin Bet, the head of the National Security Council, the head of the Security Council, all the senior officials of the economy and the energy ministry, all the experts, and also the United States of America, the president of France, the president of Lebanon and more Some. Even security experts from the right wing, such as former Navy Commander Eliezer Marom (Cheney), poured a bucket of ice water on the campaign of intimidation and screaming led by Netanyahu against the agreement. And who was on his side? Ricklin, sickle and all the rest.
The MKs and Likud “seniors”, who know the truth and are evasive about the situation in private conversations, arranged themselves behind the absurdity in threes. The screams and screams were smeared on the faces of this group like the colors of the wrong war. They remind me of that Japanese soldier who emerged from the jungle 50 years after the end of the war, Looking for General MacArthur. For the first time in a long time, Binyamin Netanyahu’s poison machine drank its own poisoned cup and swung in the face of the simple facts. The lie was defeated by the truth.
The claim that an agreement of this type should be approved in the Knesset and should not be approved before elections is worthy of discussion. If it was voiced in a legitimate way, a legitimate discussion could be held. But when you know the facts, the conditions, the constraints and the size of the hour, the chance that this opportunity will not come back, the chance and the risk, you realize that Lapid did the right thing. If we had a real peace agreement here, or an event that includes the return of territories, evacuation of settlements or some kind of constitutional change, it would be possible to insist on the approval of the Knesset, and the legal advisor to the government would not allow this to happen either.
But that is not the case. This is an economic agreement with a clear political-security implication. Many agreements of this type have been drawn up by governments, including the Netanyahu government (including a very similar agreement with Cyprus). Israel did give up in some of the areas, but it is about giving up salty sea water and half a billion dollars (over the years). The payoff on the other side is many times greater.
Therefore, although in the ideal world, it would be good if the procedures for approving this agreement had a more democratic appearance, in the chaotic reality imposed on us here, there was no need for it. Those who claim that Lapid should have brought the agreement to the Knesset’s approval and trust the opposition, forget that the same opposition overturned the metro law and the visa exemption and even the electronic handcuffs law for beating men, just to poke the government (and the public) in the eye.
True, it can be approved by the votes of the joint list, but according to the Netanyahu constitution, the only one who can approve such or other matters in the Knesset with the support of the joint list is Netanyahu. When others do it, it is nothing less than betrayal. So Netanyahu is now wallowing in his own slime, stuck at the top of the tree, there is no going down and no coming. He can make claims only for himself. Lapid calls to thank Presidents Biden and Macron, while Netanyahu meets to coordinate positions with Itamar Ben Gabir. Indeed, another league. League C.