The personal meetings between Ganz and Saar matured a few weeks ago and from here the baton passed to the negotiating professionals. Zeev Elkin on behalf of Saar, Adv. Ronen Aviani on behalf of Ganz. This was the political route. There was also an ideological-essential trajectory. How do you bridge the significant ideological gaps between the two sides? Here Elkin worked with Minister Hili Trooper. Formulas were formulated and a document was prepared that, when completed, would form a kind of common substrate. Yes, there are quite a few disagreements left, but not ones that undermine the common foundation. The Palestinian issue is, by and large, a focus on “reducing the conflict,” a fascinating thesis that Micha Goodman weaves until conditions change. That is, forever.
Saar and Elkin’s entourage hope not to get into a fight with Lapid. It is unnecessary. There is no point in fighting for another seat and a half from the pool of voters of Lapid, Labor and Meretz. The only quarrel still raging between the parties is over Izenkot. Gadi Izenkot. He has not yet decided, but he is close to a decision. As of this moment, the trend is positive. If he does decide to jump into the political quagmire, Gantz and Saar currently have a down payment for him. It’s not closed yet, it’s very far from closed, but it could be the kind of game changer that will give this new party momentum. Not necessarily at Lapid’s expense. Ganz and Saar hope that this momentum will be at Netanyahu’s expense. Saar and Izenkot met yesterday. With Ganz, Izenkot has an open line. He replaced him in the chief of staff’s office. Right now, that’s the preferred option.
In preparation for the campaign, Saar recruited a new digital director. A talented guy who in recent years has been the director of the new press department of the government press office. On Monday this week he received a surprising phone call from an old friend named Luke. Topaz Luke. The Digital Director, Netanyahu’s special and cunning tasks. The two met on some of Netanyahu’s long trips abroad, which were joined by the young man from GPO. Hi, Luke told him, what does that sound like, congratulations on the new appointment. Thank you, thank you, replied the man. How about coming to help us a little? Luke was interested, but his interlocutor did not quite understand. How can I help you, I work for Gideon Saar, he replied. No, it’s okay, Luke said, keep working for him and help us. The token fell. He realized that they were trying to recruit him against his employer. Produce a mole. The call ended less than a minute after it began.
This is how they work. By deceit, in cunning, all means sanctify the goal, which is not the safety and security of the State of Israel but the safety and security of the Netanyahu family. It is enough to take a look at the list of candidates running in the Likud primaries, which is reminiscent of Interpol’s wanted list, to understand who we are dealing with. The more puffy the creeps you drag in your wake, the higher your chances in primaries. The party of Zeev Jabotinsky, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir is reminiscent of a neighborhood branch of an amateur crime family.
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The all-time record was broken this week, in the State Comptroller’s report that dealt with party funding. There is a long list of parties that have exceeded their budgets at one level or another. Typical irregularities. One party towers above all others as a beacon of decay and abysmal impudence. Yes, you guessed it. The Likud.
It turns out that for years the Likud has employed hundreds and possibly thousands of activists in its election campaigns, deducting 25% tax from them legally, but not transferring the money to the state treasury as required. She is simply using these tax money, which belongs to us, to continue to fund her campaigns and antics. She also shows no signs of any desire to return the money. Why would you find out? The Likud understood that there is no law enforcement system in Israel. The Netanyahu trial is the latest spasm in the dying convulsions of this system. The crooked man in his eyes will do. The Likud does not even respond to press inquiries on this issue.
Where does the money go? To Adv. Amit Hadad, for example. Many weeks ago, I published here that the Likud funded, for more than a million shekels, the legal defense of Netanyahu’s advisers suspected of harassing state witness Shlomo Pilber. What is the connection between this and the Likud? No connection. The Likud Comptroller, Adv. Shai Galili, who examined the affair, raised the possibility that this exercise was actually intended to transfer funds to Adv. Hadad on behalf of Netanyahu’s defense, through the Likud clearing house. Well, and did anyone check it out? Anyone researched? Has anyone pointed a finger? Nada.