The enemy is not Hamas, but rather Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, according to an analysis of a Hebrew newspaper. So why is the far-right camp considered the greatest threat facing Israel?
“This is the greatest threat to Israel. Not Hamas.” Under this title, Haaretz published a lengthy analysis monitoring “Bibi’s world” (Benjamin Netanyahu’s nickname), and the depth of the danger this world has, in reference to the far-right camp, to “Israel’s existence” itself.
Long live Bibi and die Israel!
“In Bibi’s world, there is no value, measure, or importance for anything, except pledging loyalty to leader Benjamin Netanyahu every morning. This camp aims to abolish truth, objectivity, and even public decency... There is no meaning to the descriptions of “good” or “bad,” but the only standard is The level of shouting loudly, “I support Bibi!” From this introduction, Haaretz’s analysis begins, shedding light on the poles of the camp that forms the current Israeli government.
This camp represents the coalition formed by Netanyahu, the longest-serving politician in the position of prime minister in Israel, and includes representatives of extremist religious parties and representatives of settlers, such as Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and other more extremist figures who publicly call not only for the displacement of all Palestinians from the lands of Palestine. Rather, kill them all. The Israeli government's program was based on expanding the settlements, completing the Judaization of Jerusalem, and completely annexing the West Bank, in addition to tightening the siege on the Gaza Strip and destroying it as well.
This government was described by Thomas Friedman - the American Jewish writer - as "the most extremist government in the history of the Hebrew state," and that was before it was officially announced that it would assume responsibility on the last days of 2022, that is, about 10 months before the war on Gaza.
The provocative policies of this government resulted in the displacement of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem, the repeated assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque, the expansion of illegal settlements and the establishment of more of them in the West Bank, and the tightening of the screws on the Gaza Strip. These are the policies that led to the Al-Aqsa Flood military operation on October 7. The first is 2023, according to a report by the American website Vox.
The supporters of the “Bibi-Netanyahu” camp are either followers of the terrorist Baruch Goldstein, or common criminals, or failed or even successful citizens, “it does not matter - as long as they belong to the right camp, and it is not a coincidence that the Likud Party has no political program. Bibi - Netanyahu is there,” according to Haaretz’s analysis.
Attacking opponents
The Hebrew newspaper's analysis monitored the assault of two of Bibi's supporters by beating Gadi Kedem... until he started bleeding from his head: "It's good that they killed your children, you traitorous whore." This is how they insulted his wife before the assault - that is, before he kicked one of them, Uri Harush, Kedem is in his head as he lies on the ground, the entire time, and even happily films himself celebrating the kick. Kedem is one of those calling for stopping the war and concluding a prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance.
Who is Haroush? He has a lengthy criminal record that includes seven convictions for drug and violent crimes, including threats and armed robbery. A few years ago, he fell into financial difficulty, and it is natural that the current Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, helped him. According to Harush, he accumulated debts during the Covid-19 crisis after people who loaned him money to pay alimony demanded their money back, according to Haaretz.
But for the “Bibi” camp, none of this matters. The only important thing is that “Harush is a loyal soldier for the Bibi camp.” Suddenly, the ministers took notice of him, including the former Likud Minister, Galit Destal Atbarian, who described him in a video clip as a “social activist,” as if A volunteer at the leprosy hospital does nursing work, as Haaretz reported sarcastically.
Mafia culture
“The Bibi-Netanyahu camp sponsors Harush... Kedem represents a political danger to Netanyahu. Although Harush kicked him in the head, they protect him and stand by him... In the end, none of the ministers who called Harush on his birthday, who asked They took pictures with him and begged for his vote in the primaries, themselves: “How could I not have noticed that I was dealing with this human trash? I've missed something.' I have to be careful about who I hang out with."
“It is a mafia culture. The mafia always protects its members, as long as they do not betray the Don (Netanyahu). Bibi’s supporters are like Trumpists (supporters of former US president and current candidate for the upcoming elections, Donald Trump). What did Trump do in the United States? If you supported him, you No one is a saint who does not deserve to be at his side – the only thing that matters is the vote,” says the Hebrew newspaper.
If Harush is one of the small examples of Bibi’s supporters, there is also Transportation Minister Miri Regev, as a large model. Miri Regev can spend a billion dollars from the transportation budget and travel with her daughter to Mexico, and this does not represent corruption or a crisis. The only sin in this camp is saying that “Bibi failed.” This is an unforgivable crime. “A crime punishable by deprivation and ostracism.” And expulsion.”
Does Israel face an existential threat from within?
Yes. The war on Gaza is nothing but “promotion of what is happening and will happen here until we find a way to dismantle this movement and liberate ourselves from the sect’s grip on state institutions and its leadership. Note that it is not certain that we will win the war. We may have already passed the point of no return. Israel will gradually retreat and become A deserted country in Eastern Europe,” according to Haaretz.
After 8 months of war on Gaza, Israel is facing an absolutely unprecedented international isolation. The International Court of Justice is trying Tel Aviv on charges of committing genocide against the Palestinians, and the International Criminal Court is in the process of issuing arrest warrants against the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, and European countries such as Spain, Norway, and Ireland have admitted In the independent state of Palestine, America - Israel's most important ally - is facing a student protest movement in universities similar to what happened during the Vietnam War and the struggle against the apartheid regime in South Africa decades ago.
“In an organized country, whoever bears responsibility for a failure like October 7 says on his own, thank you very much, and leaves. There is an old American concept, which is, ‘It is not finished,’ and it reflects basic standards. This concept no longer exists, not in Israel.” Nor in the United States, because Bibi’s camp does not have basic standards. Netanyahu needs a corrupt state because he is a fungus that grows on rot,” says Haaretz.
Netanyahu: The fish rots from the head
The famous proverb says that “a fish rots from the head,” and the head here is Benjamin Netanyahu. “For his sick, narcissistic mental makeup, the state is just a tool aimed at giving him the feeling of, ‘I am saving the Jewish people.’ He does not have the mechanisms of connection to reality or introspection that make him see that he is destroying the Jewish people, instead of saving them,” according to Haaretz.
“Thanks to his devastating political savvy, Netanyahu has been able to identify three often contradictory movements and, through a politics of hatred and slander, unite them into the ‘papist camp.’ The first are the ultra-religious, who do not truly consider themselves part of the Zionist story; the second are the religious nationalists.” , who believe that the time has come to replace the weak secular Zionism; and the third are the Likudists, who hate the founders of the state because of their attitude towards Jews of Mizrahi origin.”
Haaretz believes that the three groups benefited from this union. The Haredim through military service exemptions, the ultra-Orthodox through expanding settlements, and the Likudists through plundering state resources. “They fail to accomplish anything – work, build, reform – because the ideological relationship between them is fragile. The relationship is one of hatred – to hurt and corrupt leftists. Let them explode! Let Uri Harush kick them in the head!”
The newspaper's analysis monitors the rampant corruption in the bureaucratic cupboard of the extreme right-wing government, where the selection of officials is not done through competence and professionalism, but only by measuring the level of loyalty to "Bibi's camp."
In this context, the revelations about the corruption of Transportation Minister Regev give a close glimpse into the mechanism through which this government works... “Make no mistake, the matter is not limited to Regev only. All Likud ministers work in the same way.” Their natural response to revelations of Regev's corruption is only to "liquidate those close to him, delete messages, and learn about Regev's methods of labeling allies. No introspection, no remorse, no outside perspective. No intention of change."
“They lack a basic cognitive understanding that the purpose of their positions is to serve the country, and that the positions they hold are not part of an internal competition over ‘who has more power,’ but a means to produce a better State of Israel.”
At the beginning of the year, Haaretz newspaper published a report highlighting the real dangers threatening the occupying state, which have been present since before the Al-Aqsa Flood military operation on October 7, in which it concluded that Netanyahu represents a danger to Israel, but he is not the danger. The only thing is that extremism, settlers, and other matters are tearing the entity apart internally, while the war on Gaza exposed the “deprivations” of the occupation to the world.
