Tel-Chai Nation

Naftali Bennett can say whatever he likes, but the way he seems so much more interested in replacing Benjamin Netanyahu as premier suggests he's not being altruistic:

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett said Monday that he aims to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that he will not support legislative efforts to help the premier avoid his corruption charges.

Bennett — speaking to Channel 13 just hours before the Knesset narrowly rejected a bill that would have deferred a Tuesday midnight deadline for passing the 2020 state budget, setting Israel on an almost certain course to its fourth general election in two years — pushed his own claim to head the next government.

I guess this mean that, if Bennett faces contrived corruption charges, he shouldn't have any protection against them either. And he even has the gall to make it sound more like he wants to be premier at all costs, and less like he's concerned for the country's welfare.

“I say to the people, ‘If you want us to lead, vote for us,'” he said, describing the current leadership as a “terrible government that is only focused on internal squabbles while people are dying and losing their livelihoods.”

He's telling us all this at a time when vaccines for Corona, which my parents have just taken today, are being issued to the public to help lessen the chances of illness. But if Bennett feels this way, how come he didn't enter the government, or make it easier for Netanyahu to accept his party in the coalition? Demanding 4 ministries when Yamina were down to just 6 MKs in the previous election is going quite the distance, isn't it? Think of it: if he'd entered the coalition cooperatively, he might've made a positive impact. Yet all he could do in the end was lead to a situation where he demanded too much, and angered the Likud. And Bennett doesn't seem particularly worried here about Islamofascism and Iran's nuclear warfare preparation. What does that suggest?

While Bennett on Monday insisted that he aimed to topple Netanyahu in elections set for late March 2021, he did not completely commit to refusing to sit with him, like Sa’ar and other parties have.

“My bloc says something very simple: ‘Give us enough seats and we will lead and form the (next) government,'” Bennett said, adding that he was willing to sit in a government with anyone “who supports a Jewish and democratic state and is willing to put their differences aside for two minutes to focus on income and health.”

Again, if he felt that way, he wouldn't have acted so negatively after the previous election results. It makes no difference whether he's willing to sit in a Netanyahu-led government or not, Bennett's still acting irrationally, and his obnoxious approach to the issues only makes things worse.

Repeatedly pressed on whether he would be willing to serve with Netanyahu after the election, Bennet said that his party would evaluate the situation after the vote.

“If we get a few more seats than in the last poll [which showed Yamina on 14 seats], we will lead the government. If not, we will take our power and we will not be in anybody’s pocket; we will see then what the right path will be,” he said.

Still, to show how unlikely it was that he would join with Netanyahu, Bennett said he had in recent weeks rejected an offer to become defense minister again and receive two other senior portfolios by joining the coalition.

He also said that he would “emphatically” refuse to support legislation that would allow Netanyahu to escape his legal problems. “I oppose retroactive legislation,” he added.

He also opposes Netanyahu for entirely superficial, trivial reasons, like revenge. Because how dare Netanyahu and company leave him out in the cold, after all the trouble Bennett caused that could've been avoided to start with! Instead of minimizing the moral damage he caused, along with electoral, he perpetuates it. I'm sorry, but I can't accept Bennett with the way he's going about business, and his refusal to make improvements to the legal system speaks volumes. I honestly hope he flops again in the next election, and more of his voters will think to support the Likud instead. For now, it's sad Bennett has to be this way, and won't take more positive, courageous approaches to the issues that really matter going forward.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, Israel, Knesset, Moonbattery, political corruption