Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part II

By Rich Kozlovich 

On Monday, June 7, 2021 I posted my commentary, Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? quoting a Geopolitical Futures piece saying:

Unseating Bibi -Israeli opposition parties reached a deal on Wednesday to form a government and unseat current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The coalition consists of Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party and Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party as well as an Islamist party called the United Arab List led by Mansour Abbas. Under the agreement, Bennett would serve as prime minister for two years and then be replaced by Lapid. 

 

It was easy to conclude this was a mess in the making as these three groups are at odds with each other’s goals, visions and views of what Israel is and what it should be. Bennet is allegedly far right, but that's been shown to be rhetoric.  It seems to me that Lapid is a former journalist who is more leftist than centrist. And Abbas is a liar, and the ruling arrangement is a formula for incoherence, so what could possibly go wrong? 

 

I made that statement because I took the time to look up these characters to see what they were all about, and that did not create a vision of confidence, and now we're going to see what could go wrong, and it's not going to be pretty. 

 

On July 7, 2021 by Paul Mirengoff posted this piece,  Israel’s ruling coalition splits at first time of asking saying:

The coalition government that rules Israel is an absurdity. Cobbled together for the sole purpose of ousting Benjamin Netanyahu, it’s led by Naftali Bennett, a hard line anti-Arab, but includes members of an Islamist party.  That’s not the only absurdity, but it’s absurd enough.

The first real test of the coalition’s adhesion occurred yesterday. At issue was a law that, as I understand it, prevents Arab-Israeli citizens from conferring their citizenship rights — e.g., obtaining a driver’s license or a legal job — on non-citizen spouses who once lived in the West Bank or Gaza............The law was passed in 2013 in response to the wave of bombings and murders that were occurring during the second intifada. It has been renewed annually ever since.

It was a tie vote, because this ruling coalition is not in harmony philosophically, politically or morally.  And there's a second reason it didn't pass.   Netanyahu's party didn't vote for it!  

Shocker?

That exposed this coalition's inability to rule for Israel's best interests.  That exposure made all those who in government "deep state" positions and  media who railed against Netanyahu look foolish.  Netanyahu makes it clear, "toppling the government" is more important to Israel's long term interests. 

Some may be aghast at this kind of irresponsible politics, but they've played hard ball with Netanyahu for years, with little concern as to what was good for the nation, as I attempt to show later.  Netanyahu sees the long term negative consequences to Israel for having such a "bizarre ruling coalition" in power.   This is a coalition that faces a "crisis of legitimacy with a Prime Minister whose party won only 6% of the vote".....and the party that won the most votes [was ] pushed out of office and into opposition."  

There is only one moral foundation they share:  "Anyone but Netanyahu!" So that makes Bibi the opposition, and opposition it shall be.  It's hardball, and in hardball those curve balls are the pits. 

You may wish to review this biography, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's unseated long-term leader.  There's a section here showing Netanyahu being charged with corruption, but I followed this story and as far as I can tell the prosecutors were much like the prosecutors in New York City and New York state, with the same kind of politically corrupt prosecutors and politically corrupt courts.  All totally partisan, all left wing, and all more than willing to use the power of government to advance their agenda.

The courts in Israel and the prosecutors are out of control making up the rules as they go along, so at this point I've concluded these "corruption" charges are the same political scam used by Democrat prosecutors in the U.S. against politicians, or groups they don't like all over the nation.  

Prosecutors out of control, and that makes it a case of political abuse of the system by leftists in powerful positions. This was true in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker case, the Senator Ted Stevens case, the Tom Delay case (both Delay's and Stevens careers were destroyed by these illegal actions), and it seems the same tactic is true here. This is an expanding pattern of the criminalization of politics, as was those States Attorneys General who launched a fraud investigation against the Competitive Enterprise Institute over it's position regarding Anthropogenic Climate Change, along with Exxon Mobile.

(Editor's Note: The Scott Walker John Doe Investigations were among the most egregious starting in 2006 and not ending until 2017.  This kind of legal corruption goes on in the private sector also.  They're called SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) lawsuits, to force people to be silent.    

"Nine years ago, Michael Mann sued National Review, Mark Steyn and the Competitive Enterprise Institute".  He also sued Tim Ball in Canada, where Mann lost., and the courts dismissed the case against National Review, but the case against CEI and Styne continues, with Mann constantly seeking ways to prevent it from going to court because "the process is the punishment". "The only way this litigation can end with any semblance of justice is if the court assesses many millions of dollars in costs against....Mann".   RK)

These prosecutors knew no crimes were committed, but their goal was to smear them long enough to get them out of office or to destroy those who would not support their agenda by causing a severe financial burden fighting these cases.  More than happy to flout the laws they've sworn to defend.  That's the left, and there are no boundaries on the left in the United States or Israel, in government or in the private sector. 

Daniel Greenfield noted in his piece, Netanyahu and the Left's Israeli Deep State:

............[Israel's] deep state is working overtime to force Netanyahu out of office using fake scandals, fake news and fake police.......... .Its police force is Middle Eastern. At its best, it’s useless and at its worst, it’s deeply corrupt and abusive. The same holds true for the entire justice system which remains a fossilized remnant of its socialist past that deserves to be classed with those of Russia or Uzbekistan..............Israeli police and media have spent the better part of a decade trying to invent ridiculous Netanyahu scandals...........

"Attorney general mulls probe into Sara Netanyahu's bottle deposits" isn't a gag, it's an actual headline. The catering budget at the prime minister’s residence has been under investigation for years.........Another Netanyahu investigation involved the nursing care provided to his father-in-law before his death, because the Israeli left has no more concept of decency than it does of national security............ None of these scandals ever actually go away. Much like the left’s perjury traps and obstruction of justice campaigns against Trump, discredited scandals are rolled into accusations of a cover-up.

There's more to Greenfield's article, but one thing is clear, "The deep state is [as] rotten and disloyal" in Israel as it is in America. 

• Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong
• Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part II
  
• Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part III
• Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part IV