The former Finance Ministry’s Accountant General, economist Prof. Yaron Zelekha, addressed the issue of the constant left-wing incitement against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, which in recent months takes shape by blaming him for the lack of a hostage deal.
Zelekha ran in the elections for the twenty-fifth Knesset as the head of the New Economic Party that he founded, but the party failed to pass the threshold to enter the Knesset.
Reports in the Israeli left-wing media constantly blame Netanyahu [rather than Hamas] for sabotaging hostage deals and even accuse him of wanting the hostages to stay in Gaza for his political purposes. The incitement is so deep that when released hostage Noa Argamani accompanied the prime minister on his trip to the US to address Congress, an incitement campaign against her was launched, with a Haaretz journalist even writing that it would have been better for Argamani to have stayed in captivity!
Zelekha stated on Sunday: “There is a limit to incitement against Netanyahu regarding the hostage deal. I also oppose the deal if it means leaving the security zones in the Gaza Strip.”
“The personal incitement against Netanyahu borders on bloodshed.”
“The families of the hostages are allowed to say almost anything but the anonymous leakers, the political stakeholders and the media people in the anti-Netanyahu cult are crossing red lines!”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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While shrill incitement against Netanyahu is wrong there strong criticism is warranted. The greatest civilian massacre in Israel’s history happened under his watch and he has failed to accept any responsibility. His campaign of targeted assassinations likely has limited practical benefit and puts millions of lives at risk. He has not delivered a hostage deal and has failed to rescue the vast majority of them. His approach to Iran has been abysmal. His campaign to tear up the nuclear deal has left Iran free to pursue its nuclear ambitions and his misguided approach has been criticized by leaders of the Israeli intelligence community. Netanyahu talks tough and likes to portray himself as a modern day Churchill but his policies have been an utter failure and the risks to Israel grow by the day.
Crazy: Umein v’umein.
In the past several years, he has tried to style himself as a mini-Trump, even down to the point of mimicking his hand gestures, discounting every critical media story as “fake news”, claiming that the career government lawyers and judiciary are out to get him, and presenting himself as the savior of traditional religious observance while personally eating chazerfleish, being mechalel shabbos and engaging in Trumpian-style insults and disparagement of the opposition.
These people demonstrating against Netanyahu bring to mind the Bolsheviks who commandeered the revolution against the Tzar. They think that they are the only ones that know what is good for us.
crazykanoiy: I don’t agree with you. I hate to defend Bibi, but what did you expect him to do, watch security cameras himself? Hamas fooled absolutely everyone in the entire world, from bibi to Lapid to CIA and even Iran didn’t know. As for the IDF, sure it’s been in a bad shape for years, but also it’s highly resistant to political oversight, so what could Bibi do.
Now as for assassinations, it’s Israel’s paramount interest not to be deterred away from hitting high level Massacrists of Jews like Haniye and Deif. Even if Israel has to pay by risking a regional war, or by losing diplomatic points, Haniye must not have safe haven anywhere, to deter future Haniye’s from repeating Simchas Torah.