Close your eyes for a moment and try to imagine that the Prime Minister is called Naftali Bennett. Oh, mercifully, Yair Lapid. Sail your imagination further and think that under the rule of the same Shlomiel, 13 Israelis are murdered within a month. Now, consider the far-fetched possibility that in the midst of that terrorist campaign, that prime minister sends his national security adviser, along with other senior security officials, to Aqaba, where he meets with the emissaries of Abu Mazen.
After the clashes in Hawara: the US condemned the attack and the “settler violence”
USA: Israel has pledged to freeze construction in Yosh; Netanyahu claimed: “No change”
Now hold on tight and try to imagine that while this disgraceful conference is being held, two Jews are murdered in cold blood in Hawara by a terrorist. I know it’s impossible, but make one last effort and imagine that, despite all this, Israel agrees to freeze discussions on settlement construction for four months and to freeze the training of new outposts for six months.
And finally, this is really the end, as far-fetched as it sounds, imagine that at the same conference, Israel and the Palestinians decide to re-ratify all the agreements signed between them, including the disputed Oslo agreement.
All this happened yesterday. in real. The summary document issued by the Americans includes all the absurd details mentioned above. For a year and a half they screamed and screamed against the previous government, tweeted like crazy after every attack, lamented the loss of deterrence (because the government “depends on the Muslim Brotherhood”) and promised to change everything when they returned to power, restore order, exterminate terrorism and save Jewish lives. In reality, everything is the opposite.
Hear a story: During the tenure of the previous government, the idea of the joint summit was proposed several times. The American Secretary of State in Lincoln proposed it, King Abdullah proposed it, President al-Sisi proposed it. All these times the Bennet Lapid government rejected the proposals.
I asked then, in real time, one of the decision makers, why the government doesn’t give a chance for negotiations. “It’s a bad idea,” he answered me, “in such a conference we will be in the minority, there will be Egyptians and Jordanians and Palestinians there and they may dictate terms to us.”
Therefore, the annihilation government of the Muslim Brotherhood did not think of doing what the “right-wing” government did yesterday. The Muslim Brotherhood government had no intention of agreeing to freeze settlements. Not for four months and not for four days. This government preferred to talk less and act more against terrorism, with relative success, at least in the Gaza Strip.
All this time the same government has been the victim of a despicable, crude, uninhibited campaign of incitement by the bunch of lunatics who are now running the business. When Gantz met Abu Mazen in an effort to maintain the important security coordination with the Palestinians, the mob attacked him with harpoons. “They intend to revive the political process”, screamed the trumpeters and their operators. Yesterday it became clear that they re-approved Oslo.
Yesterday, shortly after the terrible attack in Hawara, the heroes of the right-wing government emerged in full force (meaning Smotrich and his gang) and demanded that Netanyahu immediately return the delegation from Aqaba. The problem was that the conference had just ended. The return of the Aqaba delegation a quarter of an hour before the end of the conference is very reminiscent of the order that Netanyahu gave to stop the uprooting of the Shiloh vineyard three trees before the end. The main thing is that they are talking about New Zealand.
Soon we will be New Zealand. A full right-wing government? The government is completely bluff. Fortunately, they are not in their own opposition. The current opposition does not rage, does not dance for blood, does not take advantage of every terrorist attack to incite against the government, the IDF, the Shin Bet and the security forces.
Lapid, Gantz, Sa’ar and their friends do not try to make political capital on the blood of murdered people, do not attack the decision-making ranks like a mob and behave in a stately manner. The question is, are they right?