The scorching hot Summer of this years' July, which started on day 269 since the
Oct 7th, fire shad massacre Oct 7th had chard a State, already in deep agonizing war turbulence, with throwing it further into a "burning swirl" of roasting weather's heat. and hellish political flames.
Despite the optimistic feel of Dan Senor, co-author of the 2009 bestseller the "Start Up Nation", the legacy of this summer month's inferno, flagged out
Scandals, Scoundrels, political rifts, spiraling-down economy, and increased death of soldiers and civilians,
Israeli Kids, out of school, may have been free on summer school-break,
however, sadly, confided inside
"Safe Spaces", protected against rockets, both in the North and South. And, 120 hostages have been still held back in Hamas captivity, alongside another roller coaster "release deal" which has been "cooking" on a very slow too cold fire.
Netanyahu, who strives on chaos, was
adding covertly, his own" iceical spins" to freeze a deal of his own making, spreading contradictory fickle messages, and inventing obstacles.
His sabotaging effort , were directed to appease the extremists of his Gov. to insure his collation stays intact.
In addition to the dismay of the heartbroken hostages' families, also Security officials, mediators accused Netanyahu of intentionally sabotaging the deal, when he issued a list of
‘non-negotiable’ demands as hostage talks just slated to restart ahead of delegation’s departure to Cairo and Doha.
The Red Lines for Ceasefire Negotiations - which were issued in a public statement by the PM, emphasized the principles which govern Israel's stance, in the ceasefire-hostage negotiations.
It included:
1) Any deal will allow Israel to resume fighting until all of the objectives of the war have been achieved.
2) There will be no smuggling of weapons to Hamas from Egypt to the Gaza border.
3) There will be no return of thousands of armed terrorists to northern Gaza. 4) Israel will maximize the number of living hostages who will be released from Hamas captivity.
Considering that the first week of July opened with an optimistic huge
"Peace Summit " grandly titled, by the branded Israeli peace camp :
"The Time Has Come.", the stark evolving reality on the ground, sadly proves otherwise ....
The time, sadly, has not yet come..
Thousands of Jewish and Arab activists, journalists, and politicians mix, gathered in this Tel Aviv convention.
The renowned Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari along with other speakers called for :peace, end to Gaza war, and return of hostages, with all united in their message that:
“only peace can bring security.”
In my humble opinion it will take "Peace-boots on the ground", and not speeches in conferences" should the dream comes true.
When a mass civil Peace Movement forms in the Islamic Arab territories surrendering Israel, and hundred thousands of Peace loving activists
pour into the streets to promote, NOT
a "destructive ring of fire", but instead a "Regional Peace", in defiance of war and hate mongering of their Leaders, then
I, as well as most of Israelis will be compelled to believe, that Peace is given a real chance. ...
Interestingly, a dedicated stubborn Israeli -Rabbi Oury Amos Cherki has an alternative
vision, to bringing peace.
Rabbi Cherki is the founder and chief of "Brit Olam" a Noahide World Center, which is semi "missionary" organization, dedicated to disseminating Jewish Universal messages and education on Jews values around the world, to anyone interested, to be open to them and without conversion,
The Rabbi, who was born in Alger and raised in France, before moving to Israel (1972), has been a leader of congregation "Bayt Yehuda" in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem, and has published numerous works on Jewish thought and philosophy.
He has been using his knowledge on Jewdism and Islam, to meet with leaders and to engineer their Islamic consciousness, as to reverse Islamic hate of Jews, as well as have them acknowledge and accept that, it is written, inside the Koran itself, that
"Israel was G-d Given and belongs to the Jews."
He was interviewed on July 12th, in Hebrew on Liat Regev radio program, claiming that
he has attracted many followers to his teachings, among Islamic leaders, and hope that such a transformation will gain a larger tracking and wish for Peace, in the Muslim world.
Well.. I wish him and his followers much luck .. if they mange to stay alive, long enough..
Thus, despite the massive gathering and wishful-thinking of the conference's organizers, or of the Rabbi's reeducation visionary efforts, the same old gloomy horizon. on 7 war fronts, was colored, only by more of the same and worse, further blackening the nation's depleted emotional mood..
In addition to targeted Cyber Attacks, of IDF computers, the price of precious lives have been extracted, at Gaza's bottomless war swamp, the inflamed West Bank the on going rockets' bombarded & burning on the Northern front, and Iranian-backed Shi'ite terrorist militias from Syria and Iraq, consistently using long-range unmanned aerial vehicles to target Israel's Red Sea city of Eilat , and Houties even targeting TLV
10 serving soldiers, were killed just in the first week of the month, including one stabbed by an Israeli Arab terrorist, in Karmiel's shopping-mall attack, .
Civilian couple was killed also by Hezbollah rocket hitting its car when driving close to their home in Kibbutz Ortal on the Golan Heights, leaving behind 3 orphans. 4 IDF soldiers were wounded, 2 severely, in a car-ramming attack near a military base in central Israel and 3 Israelis were lightly wounded from shattered glass in a shooting attack at a car in Samaria
Furthermore, Defense Forces have lost two fighters : Cpt. Alon Sacgiu, 22, who was killed in the Jenin refugee camp and. First Class (res.) Yehuda Geto, 22, who was killed in the Nur Shams refugee camp to powerful roadside bombs in the West Bank.
Apparently Iran has entranced its meddling in the West Bank with deepening threat posed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), also a reminiscent of the threat in the 1990s Security Zone in South Lebanon, where Hizbullah focused on placing IEDs along and under roads.
To counter this new threat, the IDF began sending backhoes and armored D9 bulldozers into the refugee camps of northern Samaria ahead of other forces, to shave the upper layer of asphalt on the roads
That first week of the month also opened with the scandal of the contentious release from Israeli detention of Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the Dr. director of Al-Shifa Hospital Gaza enclave’s largest medical complex, said to have let Hamas abuse Gaza City hospital,
The dubious Gazan Dr. was taken into custody in late Nov. 2023 during an Israeli military raid on the facility, and was released in July, back into the Gaza Strip; (with some 55 other PA prisoners)
Due to lack of prison space; and without charge, 7 months after he was detained on accusations of working with Hamas militants, he& others were let go.
There is well founded evidence that Hams exploits non-military and civil facilities like hospitals , schools, and mosques, in Gaza alongside using private civilian residences, as material&human shields, to lounge armed combatant operations or to hide attack's weapons ,combatants, and hostages.
Once the news of the Doctor's release was reported in the media, the decision drew an immediate outcry from families of hostages, who their relatives were held or murdered at Shifa,'shospital, as well as it sparked outrage among Israeli Ministers, blaming Security authorities, with some demands to remove the Shin Bet chief.
The scandal engulfed the Israel's Prison Service, the Shin Bet and the Gov, issuing contradictory statements explaining the release and culpability to the decision. and demanding an investigation, but non in the inept Gov. took responsibility to this
release, and Netanyahu's pretending "NOT to Know" has been the on going pattern. "Netanyahu Knew. Netanyahu Ignored." as he was, also previously warren prior to
Oct 7th occurred...
And as if this scandal was not enough of a slap in the face of the emotionally terribly scared hostages' families, immediately, another insensitive offense concerning Israel boosting power to Gaza desalination plant in bid to avert humanitarian crisis, hit the news.
Security officials who said that electric work is critical for Israeli campaign against Hamas thus created the "Electricity Crisis",
The fact that Israel is enabling reconstruction work in Gaza has angered also some Ministers in the government.
Frankly, in the long history of war, the case of an attacked country being obliged to supply the enemy with
life oxygen of water, electricity and food, during ferocious combat time, is an insane anomaly, sabotaging final resolve..
Furthermore, Israel to set up Port Facility to replace U.S. military's offshore Pier, for delivering aid to Gaza, will build a Field Hospital for Gaza ChildrenI to treat Palestinian children who are unable to leave Gaza for medical care abroad, and Israel will expand its economic aid to Gaza through the local private sector, planning extensive repairs, to the sanitation system in cities with displaced civilians. to prevent health hazard.
Alongside, to those planned investments projects in Gaza, the "brilliant Gov". Voted 68-9 Against Establishment of a Palestinian State , west of the Jordan River.
PA State in "the heart of the Land of Israel" would pose an "existential danger to the State of Israel and its citizens." , would perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and would further destabilize the region. as it would quickly be taken over by Hamas, which would then use Palestine to launch attacks on Israel..
The vote took place just a head of the ICJ court review of 57-Year Israeli occupation.
Judges were set to Deliver Advisory Opinion on Occupied PA Territory.
considering the legal consequences of Israel’s policies and practices.
On Friday 7/18 the non-binding consulting ICJ ruled that "Israel's policies in the occupied Palestinian territory amounted to annexation. that Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful, and that it should come to an end “as rapidly as possible."
Considering that the majority of the court's members are Arab/Muslim pro Palestinian ,
the court ruling is largely tainted by Political and not by justice Judiciary concerns.
Since the Israeli Gov has NO existing international Hasbara" PR strategy on Israel in place, the Jewish State has become one of the least favorable country by Europeans.
Another scandal exposed this month was when a senior official at a medical institution was arrested on suspicion of security violations.
A Doctor in a recognized medical institution -Beer Sheva /Negev, was arrested on suspicion of harming state security. The Shin Bet opened an investigation. The medical institution was not surprised, and said that the senior "has been behaving strangely since the beginning of the war...
The Rifts within the Gov. coalition. and between the Gov. and other Security authorities, reached its peak, reflecting a colossal dysfunctional management, which further threatens National security.
A rift between the Israeli Prime and Generals were said to believe that a permanent ceasefire is the best way to free remaining Hamas-held hostages.
It is also reportedly said, that the IDF needs to restock ahead of an expected wider conflict with Hezbollah, as diplomatic efforts have so far failed to allay fears of a potential war.
In this latest sign of rift between Netanyahu and Generals, Israel’s military leadership wants to see a ceasefire in Gaza, even if it leaves the Hamas terror group ruling the Strip, The NYT reported that. Netanyahu quickly responded to the cited 6 current and former security officials, that "this was not his option" and in a statement, Netanyahu blasted the “anonymous sources” who spoke to the US outlet.
A coalition rift became personal power play , between far-right National Security Minister - Ben Gvir and Shas leader Der,i as" influence wrestling" between their two parties deepens.
Deri opposed Ben Gvir joining the war cabinet, and called ben Gvir ‘inflated balloon,’ due to his blackmailing for a seat on this coveted influential forum.
And Ben Gvir branded Deri a "lapdog of the left" pushing the Prime Minister to compromise on policy,. thus Ben Gvir torpedoed key Shas-backed bill - the "Rabbis Bill'" (the Jobs Bill). Ben Gvir wouldn't back legislation unless given a seat on a disbanded war cabinet,which also Netanyahu is against granting him.
Furthermore, State Prosecutor was seeking a probe of Ben Gvir for inflammatory incitement .
He asked the Attorney General for permission to open a criminal investigation into the National Security Minister for "inciting violence against residents of Gaza",
Allegedly the probe was in an attempt to satisfy the International Court of Justice that has been holding Israeli officials to account for such remarks.
The move said aimed at pacifying ICJ by showing Israel is prosecuting individuals for inflammatory comments amid war with Hamas;
Regardless, Ben-Gvir has been an inflammatory force, leading members of the current government to speak in a divisive and toxic manner,
The request to suspend the far-right Ben Gvir for his racist and heinous remarks towards Arabs, was met by his accusation remarks of ‘Deep state’ trying to undermine me"
Besides his supremacist inflammatory inciting "career" against Arabs, he has specialized in threatening the PM Netanyahu to dissolve the Gov, if the Hostages deal materializes, as well as bullying any one, who dares to stand in his way, of executing his expansionist messianic ideology, That also includes encouraging violence of the Police against the protestors,
This extremist racist, who was convicted times and again in the past, had the audacity to file a libel suit against left-wing then MK lawmaker - Stav Shaffir after claiming she compared him to "Nazi leader Adolf Hitler" .
Not to forget also his abysmal track in NOT stifling inflated murder crimes occurring within and among Israeli Arab communities, which only doubled under his serving time, though he boasted prior to being elected and nominated to Minister of National Security, that only he can accomplish that grave task...
Furthermore as it may apply to Ben-Gvir, he also sabotaged a suggested law, concerning a ban on public service to those who are suspects in terror acts or support terror acts since he automatically, also wouldn't be able to serve in the Knesset.
The only correct terminology defining anything related to Ben Gvir is "inflated"...
Another reported rift erupted. between Defense minister Galant and other members of coalition main Likud party . Netanyahu’s inner circle discussed the ousting Gallant as he has been seen as thorn in coalition’s side, including on ultra-Orthodox draft;
For some time Galant has been harshly criticized ,and accused of "playing politics" by refusing to support an ultra-Orthodox draft law (in reality "Evasion Law" )unless, it earned broad consensus,
That earned Galant attacks against him in contentious cabinet debate calling on his ousting.
In addition to the rift on enlisting young ultra-Orthodox in the military, which could topple the government
more bad blood dripped between Netanyahu and the Defense Minister’s insistence on moving ahead with the Hostages Release Deal
With the growing discord within Netanyahu’s alliance of parties, and his increasing distrust, Netanyahu has been trapped in the grip of these 2 cunning Gov. members -Ben Gvir and Deri, as well as has been given to a deeper escalation with his Defense minister - Galant.
All these disputes, while his own trial has been looming above his head, Netanyahu's handling the urgent priorities of the bleeding country under war has been totally misconstrued.
Instead of building strong relationship with the only superpower that continuously has invested in Israel 's Security, Netanyahu deliberately attacked and has sabotaged that long standing supportive contacts.
Instead of dedicating the precious time to cultivate an international Coalition to curb Iran's murderous appetite to eliminate Israel, and to stifle its expansionist and nuclear ambitions,
urged by also Liberman, non is done.
Israeli Gov. time with public funds, have been wasted on coalition's acrobatic maintenance maneuvers to appease a bunch of hallucinatory inept messianic extremists, who in the name of their theologian perverse ideology, have abandoned Israel's National Security interests, the hostages, and displaced.
Instead of minding the State depleted economy and passing a budget for next year,
appeasing Coalition's Ministers with "coughing out" public funds for their absolutely useless and wasteful, international travel, takes precedence.
As well was a propaganda waste, the long session, dovetailed on the assassination attempt against Trump. Over 2 hours Knesset time was dedicated to the discussions on the verbal incitement and threats against the "fearful but the highest protected" Netanyahu, from those who dare to oppose and criticize him, in the Protests and in Social Media, although no real engendering plotting against his life, was detected.
Historically the Right has an infamous track of inciting and applying violence against those outside that camp.
Late PM Itzack Rabin was murdered by Igal Amir- a far Right Likud extremist, after a vicious instigation lead by Netanyahu in 1994. "Rabin is Dead" was written on a black coffin during Protest marches
Who in Netanyahu's morally corrupted Gov, would ever doubt, that discussing Netanyahu's own life and that of his family, should be less important then that
of the hostages in Hamas 9 months captivit , or that of the fallen soldiers, the IDF women Observers, or that of the displaced ???
Even now a days, as shown in the video, the Bibist youth is the one attacking protestors!
Netanyahu is certainly NOT the "victim" as clarified the opposition leader - Lapid.
Whiny Bibi/Baby works, relentlessly to portray himself as such, by engineering public's awareness, brainwashing the cultish gullible, of such a distorted image..
Considering that time is wasted on such an"urgent" session, just prior to the Knesset taking off 3 months of summer break, and that the volume of venomous incitement, bullishness, divisiveness, and conspiracy tales, are continuously manufactured and spread by Netanyahu's coalition members, the son Yair by all the Bibist cultish supporters along with the media amplifiers, Netanyahu's alleged or real fears, are encountering his own monstrous creation.
Instead of dedicating time to strengthen much needed National Cohesion and Unity,
Netanyahu and his followers has fueled divisiveness and poisonous climate.
Just this month, the fickle MK Galit Distel-Atbaryan lashed out blaming for "harming Israel" , Omri Ronan, one of the leaders of "Brotherhood in Arms" the protest organization, which mobilized after the 7/10 massacre much aid to impacted harmed citizens in need.
The former Minister of Information felt compelled to attack and spew poisonous utterance against the activist , whose grandmother was murdered on Oct 7th and who did his Reserve duty. for almost 5 months
She stated that "your violent, hateful, racist and barbaric organization is the most destructive thing that has happened to Israeli society" , to which .Ronen replied quoting a statement she made "You admitted after the Oct 7th surprise attack, that you caused the country to weaken. I am ashamed that you are a member of the Knesset"
Orit Strook another hallucinatory Far Right Minister of Settlements and National Missions (wasteful made up position to appease coalition agreements)
extols a " Miracle Period" of settlement expansion.. the prolonged war seen as
a G-d given "wonderful" opportunity, to
materializing Messianic goals....
Another unbelievable reported exposure was that ,as soon as the war with Hamas began on October 7, Netanyahu ordered that the system of army's recording meetings be turned off in the command center at army headquarters, which is where all security cabinet meetings and other defense-related meetings were being held in those days.
Normally, the recording system is in automatic operation and records everything that takes place in the command center at army headquarters, but immediately after the war started, the PM ordered all recordings to be turned off.
The army complied with this order.
Furthermore, another very serious scandal was revealed. to the public in the second week of the month.
The Attorney General has been investigating charges of tampering. Protocols and minutes of war cabinet related meetings, and transcriptions of telephone conversations, to update the PM during this war. They were tampered with, at the PM bureau.
These charges which specifically implicate Netanyahu were made by General Avi Gil, Prime minister's former military secretary.
Also this month even Galant joined the clear and loud calls for a State Inquiry into Oct 7th. In a challenge to the PM. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called for the formation of a state commission of inquiry to investigate the Hamas-led onslaught and the failures surrounding it.
The commission, Galant said, should investigate him (Galant) the PM (who has argued, probe should wait till after war) as well as the IDF.
But, as megalomaniac as Napoleon Netanhau told an associative story at a speech in the Knesset, on how like the French General, the he- PM shouldn't be
"wasting time on investigative "clerks"
discussing "shortage of Jam" (trivializing the committee importance) as long as the war is going on....That response fueled more critical fire. against him
Since Netanyahu has been adamantly against forming such a commission, now, or until he will, if ever, several
civil organizations held a press conference and announced the establishment of a civil commission of inquiry . This is the people will!!
The committee will be lead by chairman retired judge Gideon Ginat, to investigate
Oct 7th events, in light of the fear that a State commission of inquiry would not be established at all, but in hope that this civil move will put pressure on the Gov. to establish one. Tel # to share info with the commission 054 599-8806 Commission
.Galant stated that the Release Deal of the hostages is the State's top priory, however it will be that, of also Netanyahu's, only if it doesn't threat to dissolved Netanhayu's Gov....
The Mossad's Chief David Barnea, being pressured by Netanyahu, refused to introduce any new items to the Hostage's deal, as not to sabotage it, stating "the girls in hostage run out of more time to wait" no more negotiations on the terms..
It is clearly evident that work relationship between Netanyahu and Galant are at its lowest and the mistrust of each other, is at its highest.
In the Inverted Reality of this defected Gov. doing RIGHT and voting for what benefits the country entire, as Gallant has been fighting for, is shamelessly being degraded as "wrong" and is being fought against.
The Israeli government has been accused of attempting to sabotage a US-backed ceasefire proposal, according to Israeli media, by introducing new demands despite previously accepting the plan.
Official from mediating country slams Netanyahu’s demands as harming talk prospects
“Statements like the one made by the PM severely harm efforts to maintain that ambiguity,” the senior official from the mediating country says.
And as if all these scandals and rifts were not horrendous enough, "Bibi and The Qatari Money" scandal also made headlines this month.
A petition requesting the Israeli Attorney General to open an investigation against the PM and others for obtaining Qatari bribe cash funds, was announced.
It was reported that US Justice Department and FBI have been investigating hostages and survivals impacted by Oct 7th massacre, as part of a comprehensive investigation into terror group and its financial supporters.
One of the objectives is to compile an incriminating evidence file against Hamas heinous crimes, which US can use for putting an heavy pressure on Qatar to cooperate and have Qatar squeeze Hamas on the hostages release deal.
US has been threatening to sue Hamas’s financiers and facilitators sources, which may reveal information that few involved countries, Qatar Israel Egypt and Iran, are afraid to have it disclosed, as it may be incriminating..
Though it is indigestible to believe that Netanyahu may have been tainted by Qatari bribe, this still needs a solid proof, although reports on the volume of suitcases, with alleged "dirty laundry" loaded into planes, on official travel, to be washed abroad, definitely has raised suspicions, regarding their real content...
Corrupted State Culture is clearly evident in the next segment...
Conducting state affairs as if the State and its funds are his own private enterprise, Netanyahu granted his Foreign Minister Special Permission to bring the Minister's wife on All Overseas Travel at Gov't Expense.
Israel Katz was given an unusual blanket approval to have his wife join him on his trips abroad at the government's expense,
This frivolousness unnecessary and outrageous waste of money, certainly now
when so much funding is needed for war efforts, reconstructing the country's damages, or compensating the impacted, displaced, the injured and paying back an inflated
national debts, is another misconduct.
Since every Minister's State travel abroad requires Netanyahu's signed approval, the PM saves and uses those coveted approvals as a "special gratuity" for those who demonstrate unequivocal loyalty and faithfully suck-up to him.
More State Funds have been shamelessly wasted when Yair Netanyahu - son of PM spent a private vacation this past June, in Guatemala, closely guarded by State Shin Bet Security Guards, and then again vacationing this month in Yusemite Park
It was reported that the son Yair's stay in the US (Miami) which includes 2 Shin Bet security guards that change every two weeks, private chauffeur, flights, and more. all worth approximately NIS 2.5 million annually.
Security cost of the 2 sons of the Pm between 2021-2022 cost around 3.8 Million
Since the Shin Bet also recommended replacing its security detail for son Netanyahu with personnel from the Prime Minister's Office due to being short staffed, and against the PM insistence on keeping the Shin Bet arrangement, the Israeli civil, independent, non-partisan and non-profit Movement for the Quality of Government, placed a petition with the High Court against this Security arrangement that PM insists on, for being "unreasonable"(more on petitions placed)
With public money on Security watch, from Miami, the idle son, also has the audacity to run most vicious inciting campaign, spreading lies and conspiracy tales as well as blaming and attacking the Chief of Staff, Head of Shabak, and any one opposing the Bibist camp.
When the decay starts at the top, other Minsters and MK members get back-wind to conduct their affairs at their worst...
The far-right National Religious Party–Religious Zionism and the chair of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman whose more descriptive named should be the "Rottweiler" was compelled to forcibly remove hostage's family member Dani Algarat from Knesset's debate .
Dani, a retired policeman, the brother of kidnapped Itzik Elgart, was subjected to an excessive force, violently removed by 9 Knesset Security Body Guards who dragged him on the floor and fractured his shoulder, only because he burst into the discussion at the Constitutional Committee, and uttered one sentence, when another member of a Hostage family, was speaking.
He was further forcibly barred entry to the Knesset on the following days.
Foreign Governments friendly toward Israel, have repeatedly warned against steps more like annexation ,that Israeli
Finance minster, Bezalel Smotrich has been taking in the West Bank. These hallucinatory plans collide with the grave economic reality, about which this Minister has no clue and is a total failure.
The former Director General of Finance Prof. Avi Ben Best is shocked: "We are close to an economic crisis that has not been seen in 40 years
And the cold heart National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi called the Oct 7th mascaras , on a TV interview, a "MIshap" thus, outrageously minimizing the event and its impact on so many in the country.
Adding another outrages statement that "Netanyahu part will be still tested". obviously attracted onto him a heavy duty criticism, for his callousness, and for totally being brainwashed and brain-dead, hypnotized by a corrupt leader,
Hanegbi -serving as an advisor, needs not be an admirer but be a "free thinker"..
for the sake of the country. And he definitely shouldn't be an amplifier to Netanyahu's refusal to set up a national commission of inquiry that would look into the most serious failure and disaster (not mishap) in the country's history!!!
The hawkish Justice Minister Yariv Levin
who declared the Judiciary Revolution on Jan 2023 has been preventing the appointment of Justice Isaac Amit as the Supreme Court's president by the customary seniority system. Appointing of new Supreme Court justices or a new court president was held off by him for over seven months,.
Apparently, he has been "very busy:" with "pushing" the Judiciary Revolution, which apparently has never stopped and is galloping in full speed by this given to Amok Gov, according to esteemed Prof. Suzie Navot
Netanyahu also has been intensifying attack on Israel's Independent Media as a strategic move for his political survival. His rigorous efforts which has intensified post-October 7 Gaza war, has involved the appointment of loyalists, ensuring pundits echo his views as well as "targeted elimination" of those journalists threatening his and his Gov. survival
Raviv Drucker, a distinguished investigative journalist, who has long been a formidable adversary to Netanyahu. and has uncovered numerous instances of corruption and incompetence among Netanyahu and his associates, is one, already targeted.
Drucker, of channel 13th, (one of the country’s three broadcast channels) has been so impactful that Netanyahu made sure to have Druckers very popular daily program,
"War Zone" be abruptly, taken off air. Many other journalists maintain that Netanyahu is behind the moves in order to silence his critics.
Dictatorial censorship has been in the working,also by the ignorant backward -
Shlomo Karhi Communication Minister from the Likud party.
In reaction to this offensive strategic campaign against independent Media, Israel’s top television journalists attended an “Emergency Conference to Save Channel 13” in protest of attempts to “politicize and weaken” journalists at Channel 13, following the recent appointment of Yulia Shmalov-Berkovic as CEO of News 13 and the cancellation of the program “War Zone” highly critical of the Gov.
Speculation suggests that there is a connection between the canceled Drucker TV program, and the strange release of the PM Office's unprecedented proposal to totally ban direct imports from Turkey to Israel ,
Use of third party which will only increase tax/cost of especially important cement, (known to be cheaper import from turkey) was suggested instead.
Such economically cost ineffective decision will most benefit the private Israeli based
NESHER Cement Enterprise, whose owner is the milliarder Leonard Blavatnik
(Access Industries) who also is "incidentally," the owner of channel 13th..
And here is the speculated "Capital Rules the Underworld" הון שלטון,עיתון,עולם תחתון
And as if meddling in economic and media affairs inside the country are not enough,
outrageous, meddling in a foreign election is hallucinatory megalomania...
France president warned Netanyahu that Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli was "openly" and "blatantly" interfering in the elections by endorsing Le Pen and her National Rally party, is constituting an "unacceptable" interference.
Shikly, who during this prolong war time, has not stop circling the glob and showing no results for this wasted time and funds, manged only to damage diplomatic relation.
These coalition's members lead by PM Netanyahu, have no moral restraint, no respect to the law, no fear of the public critic, or of the State's President, nor any of the weakened Gate kippers, thus they dare to conduct their affairs as they please, fulfilling any outrageous whims.
Those in power feel they are not obliged to be accountable to anyone, have no incentive to restrain their power, can do whatever they dare... waste tax money, change protocols, or engineer reality, and that is how Criminal Arbitrary Dictatorship , looks like..
They don't work for the State's citizens, only for maintaining their own ruling, and thus blame the citizens when those refuse to work for them...
Thus despite all the burning challenges the country is facing in war time, this rotten in power constellation, has no inhibition to leave, at the end of the month, on 3 months Summer break, the longest ever, which also also prolongs its Gov. shelf-life in power.
A civil petition requesting the Knesset to abort the summer break , also has been already circling.
Released investigation into Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of kibbutz, Beeri, where 101 civilians and 31 security personnel died, finds disastrous response by military amid battle against hundreds of terrorists.
IDF prob showed army’s colossal errors, flawed priorities, mistakes made by commanders and the significant time it took the army to act, make up a large part of the findings.
Well trained elite units failed to comprehend, that their main function is to defend, first and for all, civilians under attack, and dare "hand to hand combat" proximity with the enemy terrorists .
Special admiration was given to residents’ bravery in defending their communities,very few against so many.
Ration between numbers of Terrorists (red) to IDF soldiers fighter (blue) is Beeri
The investigation evoked a cascade of media commentaries and rage among the surviving Kibbutz members and many others in the country.
The esteemed Ofer Shelach a senior military Researcher at INSS and political columnist, stated in a very revealing op add that 3 layers of National Security Systems
collapsed on that cursed day :
+The Intelligence that totally missed what was cooking under its glorious means
+Failure of well trained and equipped IDF Command-Chain Response
+and dereliction in Assuming Responsibility- continuously till today.
Shelah believes that there is no need for a National Inquiry commission, as all is clear as day-light, and applies to all which happened on Oct 7th and since then.
And unless responsibility across all the layers is taken, and fixing occurs , there will not be , national healing, reconstruction nor readiness for a war.
Nissim Hazan the Tank commander of the tank that fired at the house in Kibbutz Bari: said he "could not have acted otherwise". He took control of a damaged tank and for two days fought in the kibbutz, where he opened fire on the house of Pasi Cohen. According to him, he did not know that there were hostages in the house..
"We were a society that normalizes terrorism, that preferred temporary peace and was addicted to peace. We knew - but we had compartmentalized it - that there were bad people on the other side of the fence, and we preferred that they stay there.
We didn't think they could reach us. We've learned that those who say they want to destroy us will really do it in the end." In an interview Hazaan also expressed that, all that happens is "for the best" as now many things will be fixed and be corrected...
Thus we need NOT ignore massive Hamas continued popularity and its support for among the Palestinian population, especially following the widespread destruction in Gaza caused by Hamas's war.
The latest poll, released this month, 2024, showed that satisfaction among the Palestinians in the West Bank with the performance of Hamas has risen to 82%.
Hamas Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, one of the masterminds of the Oct. 7 massacres, enjoys the support of 76% of Palestinians in the West Bank.
An explanation to this pervert phenomena given by a senior Israeli researcher highlighted a "sick psychological infrastructure, rotten to the core, [that] has been systematically built and nurtured by the PA and its leaders in local society - through education, media, payment to terrorists and their families, glorification of terrorism and terrorists, and systematic, ongoing indoctrination against Israel and Jews by cultivating the ethos of victim-refugees and armed resistance."
One of the first few who stepped-up to the occasion, out of the shadow, and asked the Nation's Forgiveness, upon stepping down from his chief position was the Shabak Commander of the Southern front
The country is impatiently waiting for others to follow, and especially the Prime - the earlier the better!
ָFollowing much pressure, finally after 9 long months, Netanyahu met during the third week of the month, with the families of IDF Field Observers soldiers who were massacred at the Nahal Oz base, and kidnapped on Oct 7th.
Unusually, the PM held a 3-hour meeting with the families in his Jerusalem's Office
listened attentively to the life stories and heroism of each of the girls, felt the families' pain, and heard their requests and demands for an investigation into the events and the commemoration of their daughters..
Crazily and concurrently, during the same week IDF Field Observers were Put on Trial for abandoning equipment (helmets, flak jackets and kitbag) while evacuated/escaping from a Northern outpost, targeted by anti-tank missiles from Lebanon, at the start of the war .
It is said they were instructed by commanders to leave the equipment behind.
Back at the meeting with the PM, parents expressed frustration that Netanyahu claimed he "was not a ware "that the spotters served with-out access to protective weapon,
And this is a long pattern of key info he has calmed he didn't "know about."..
Furthermore he didn't confirm to the families that a state commission of inquiry would be established, and
that he still planned to depart to the US congress speech, due in just a week, without attaining a hostage release deal,
which enraged .the families
The demand of those families to the PM was "No Deal No Spiel" בלי עסקה אין טיסה’ and has been gaining much tracking within the Protest organizations, and many concerned Israeli citizens, who voiced a strong opposition to Netanyhahu's departure,
With no Release Deal obtained a demand to rescind Netanyahu's invitation was conveyed to US influential Politicians, as in the letter
attached.
The opposition chair Yair Lapid, had also ostracize Netanyahu for the absolutely wrong timing of his departure
Not only the hostages' family and the oppositions is against Netanyahu's visit to the US. More than 200 anonymous House and Senate staffers, across 122 Democratic and Republican congressional offices signed a letter calling for Congress to protest or boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s July 24 joint address speech on Capitol Hill, citing concerns about the ongoing war in Gaza.
The letter, organized by the Congressional Progressive Staff Assoc.
I don't promote Progressive ideological agenda, but the wave against his travel during such sensitive times, is only swelling, across the political spectrum, in Israel and the US, Thus he will definitely encounter many protesters, on the way to Congress, during and after..
Netanyahu is due to fly to the US on his new "toy" Air force 1 plane, named
"Kenaf Zion" (Zion Wing)
The Boeing 767 from 2000, which landed in Israel in 2016, after a committee approval, 3 years earlier, succumbing to the PM insisting pressures,
The refurbishing cost were capped to max 150 Million NIS., 8 years latter and with loads of unreasonable demands and specification of the "Sultan couple", the project's cost mounted to almost one
milliard...
One more corruption and waste, considering the plane is too small and heavy to fit the large entourage, on the flight to the US......It can fit only 50 people when 120 were suppose to join, so it needed to make 2 round trips when each cost about 1 Million NIS ...
The main "consoling" event reported this month, was the the probable elimination of an arch-Terrorist .one of the architects of the Oct. 7 massacre.
Israel conducted an airstrike in southern Gaza on targeting Muhammad Deif, the leader of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, second most senior Hamas figure in Gaza after Yahya Sinwar.
Rafah Salameh, the leader of Hamas forces in Khan Yunis, was also targeted in the attack.
IDF also eliminated the terrorist Muhammad Neamah Naser, the commander of the Hezbollah terrorist organization’s Aziz Unit which was responsible for firing from southwestern Lebanon at Israeli territory.
Defense Minster Galant told that 60 Percent of Hamas Fighters were Killed or wounded in the war. thus the collapse of the military frameworks of Hamas, was achieved.
And of course, stepped-up Protests against the Gov, for Hostage release Now for a Cease Fire, for drafting the Ultra Religious, for Election Now, and against Netanyahu's travel to congress were taking place all during the entire moths, all around the country
Marking 9 months since the war in Gaza started, Israeli protesters July 7th “Day of Disruption” s blocked highways across the country , calling on Netanyahu to step down and pushing for a cease-fire to bring back scores of hostages held by Hamas.
Protesters blocked main roads and demonstrated outside of the homes of government ministers
‘Feeling captive by Netanyahu and Sinwar’: Thousands protested for hostage deal
The iconic photo of an Hostage's mother who suspended herself in a cage off an overpass at Tel Aviv protest, demanding the government to‘ "stop dragging feet’" and "bring home her son."
She did the same in Jerusalem after leading a 4 days Protest March from
Tel- Aviv, to PM’s residence, with a large crowd of followers
The slogan "You are the Head You are to Blame" which was coined by the very impactful Protests organization
Veteran of Yom Kippur ,(also mentioned in my June post 2024 regarding the confiscated Tank) has been decorating
the billboards, and buildings of many cities. In collaborations with other Protest organizations, their impact is relentless.
Long ago, already Yitzhak Shamir the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms (1983–1984, 1986–1992). diagnosed Netanyahu as the " Angle of Sabotage"
On Friday, (7/18) at the third week of the month and just, a day before our family took off to California for the long pre-planed summer break,
2 "news bombs" one cyber the other explosive one, hit Israel early morning
Cyber outage related to issues at global cybersecurity firms CrowdStrike (CRWD.O), opens new tab and Microsoft (MSFT.O) disrupted government,media, retailers, banks, telecoms companies and airlines, across world, It included also Israel, where many airlines including Delta (on which we are booked ) were grounded.
So not just the on going national, but also the private stress, grind our already over stretched nerves....
Furthermore a massive explosion rocked the city center of Tel Aviv close to where the US Embassy is located by the beach, amid Israel's ongoing war with the Hamas
Only just 5 hours earlier, on late night I was driven in a Taxi on that same explosion route, back home 15 minutes away) from babysitting my grandchildren...
To where will be evacuated the Israelis from the country's center???
The Yemenite Houthis took responsibility for he blast and debris from an undetected drone (UAV) exploded in air above the city,
This Houthis attack, the first ever which struck Israel's major city, and without warning .caused a huge blast 1 dead and 10 injured by shrapnel
Saudi paper reported that the US intercepted Houthis ballistic missile and 3 drones the forth penetrated and targeted TLV
Few hours before our heading to the airport, on Saturday, Israeli news reported that after erlier in the day, Gov. emergency deliberations, Israeli jets carry out airstrikes in day-light, on ‘Houthi terror regime’ in Yemen, after many attacks (over 200 rockets) and killing yesterday (friday) a man in TLV.
and injuring 10.
The Israeli Air Force striked the port of al-Hudaydah and was aimed at preventing the Houthis from importing Iranian weapons, as well as causing the Iran-backed group financial damage.
Houthis said unspecified number killed, wounded, in strikes on fuel depot and oil refinery
The volume, speed and intensity of the daily reported rolling parachuted news about the war and terror impact, the scandalous and political rifts, or unexpected cyber disruptions, are totally insane and too much to contain.
Thus supportive psychological services, are continually recommended in the country.
One organization, which now offers free such services for post traumatic cases of Reservist families ,soldiers, couple therapy, and children, impacted by the war is lead by chairman Rabbi Haim Fisher.
Chesed Umarpe Organization which was established more than 40 years ago, has provided since, many blessed voluntary assistance services, to cases at various levels of harm, such as financing dentists, psychiatrists, psychologists, physiotherapists, orthopedists and specialists in various fields, such as cardiologists, urologists, oncologists,
Hundreds of its volunteers operate in a number of areas around the clock.
With all due respect, one needs to be suspiciously mindful regarding the hidden orthodox agenda, that also comes along, in the package deal, of the given free charity and healing services, especially, as the connection to the Maran Harav Kook of Rehovot, is so clear.
After the 1973 traumatic Yom Kippur war many who fought it, and were impacted by the war "came back in Teshuva" meaning turning religiously Orthodox.
G-d only knows, that the country has more than its enough share of hallucinatory Messianic believers, inspired by Rabbi Kook's brand of Jewdism teaching,
I pray, for the country's own sake that the voluntary charity healing "treatment" being offered by the "Chesed Umarpe "will not collect" that costly price of
I also pray, with the majority of Israelis, for the immediate Hostages' Release Deal
66% don't believe to the PM 66% for Release Deal 54% against travel before Deal
The Public had his Say - TV channel 12 poll 7/18/2024
Book produced by the Hostages' families
This insane over-heated month of July, has not over yet, but my stay in Israel, has ..
אני מעריצה אותך על הכח הנפשי לכתוב ולהתמודד עם הטרפת של המדינה.אני לא יכולה אפילו לראות ולקרוא על הנוכל עוכר המדינה פושע וגנב נתניהו. ניתוח מעמיק ועצוב על המדינה חורבן הבית .