"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Friday, February 28, 2020

One of Gantz's own strategists says he's unreliable

In a most interesting development, a campaign strategist for Benny Gantz slammed him in a recording aired on Israel's Channel 12 as a liability to the country, the transcript provided on Israel National News:
Bachar: She (Haredi social activist and Blue and White MK Omer Yankelevich) says he is stupid, [completely incompetent] and 'must not become prime minister'.

Acquaintance: They're [dangerous], and as I've already told you, very dangerous.

Bachar: They will make the wrong decision. When people in the world try to attack Iran, they will prevent them from doing so.

Acquaintance: And how do you know they'll prevent it?

Bachar: He has no courage to attack Iran.

Acquaintance: Like, because that's the type of person he is?

Bachar: Because he's that type.

Acquaintance: And what can happen then, my love?

Bachar: You see?

Acquaintance: Danger to the people of Israel.
Isn't that something. One of Gantz's very own employees considers him bad for the country. Gantz didn't take kindly to this news, and now he's fired the guy:
Blue and White Chairman MK Benny Gantz has fired an adviser after a recording published on Channel 12 revealed the adviser as warning against a Gantz victory in the elections, since Gantz is "a danger to Israel."

Blue and White said: "[Yisrael] Bachar fell into a planned ambush which included personal exploitation, use of inappropriate means, and fraud - which will be dealt with via the judicial system. The political sources' manipulative involvement will also be revealed soon."

In the meantime, Gantz has decided to immediately end Bachar's involvement in his campaign.
They're all trying to spin it as something else, but it's clear this is embarrassing for Gantz, and doesn't reflect well on him going forward.

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Hebron's Tomb of Patriarchs must be included in Trump's Deal of the Century

The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron's wisely been brought up in mapping out the Deal of the Century:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Tomb of the Patriarchs and to the Jewish community of Hebron, during a visit to the nearby West Bank Kiryat Arba settlement on Sunday.

“We will apply Israeli sovereignty over Kiryat Arba and the Jewish community in Hebron, including the Tomb of the patriarchs and the roads that lead to it,” Netanyahu said.

“Only we [the Likud] can do this,” the prime minister said as he stood in a white tent set up to celebrate the inauguration of a new neighborhood in Kiryat Arba called Nofei Cramim with 210 homes.

All West Bank settlements are slated to become part of sovereign Israel under US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, but according to the map, the status of Jewish Hebron and the Tomb is unclear.

Netanyahu’s statement about sovereignty over the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Jewish Hebron is the clearest statement he has made to date on the matter. [...]

Prior to Netanyahu’s speech Bennett also spoke of the importance of sovereignty over the Tomb of the Patriarchs noting, that a Jewish state without that biblical site, is like Washington without the Lincoln Memorial.
It'll be interesting to see if this is brought to a Knesset vote soon, because it's about time it was.

Netanyahu, in interview with Mark Levin, points out Gantz's leftism

Mark Levin interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu for FOX News, and made some vital points about the "advisors" Benny Gantz is employing for his laughable Blue & White party with Yair Lapid, who've gone out of their way to follow the offensive example many leftists in the USA have employed in their attitude towards Donald Trump:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke with Fox News' Mark Levin about the "deal of the century" and how it might be implemented following the March election.

In the interview, Netanyahu explained that the rival center-left "Blue and White" party, led by MK Benny Gantz, is "a leftist party in disguise."

"Remember, the majority of Israelis are basically right and center-right. So in order to get center-right voters, they pretend to be a center-right party and that they will take up the terrific Trump plan that has been put forward by [US] President [Donald] Trump that's very good for Israel, that has Israel applying Israeli law, adding to Israel's sovereign territory important places like the Jordan Valley."

"This is completely anathema to Blue and White, and their leaders said the opposite just a few months ago. But when the Trump plan came out, they said, 'Oh, we're for the Trump plan.'

"There's only one problem with that. A, they're not. B, they've said horrible things about President Trump just before the Trump plan was announced. Like comparing him to Hitler. And three, they're dependent on the support in the Knesset, in our parliament, to form a government, on the Joint Arab List that says to them: 'If you actually accept the Trump plan, you won't be Prime Minister.' So they're not going to adopt the Trump plan."

Netanyahu explained that Gantz's advisers, who have compared Trump to Hitler, "are the guys who give him the lines" and that Netanyahu has "asked him to fire them. But he wouldn't."
The video sample can be found on the news page. If Gantz still employs those 2-3 aides and advisors, he's only continuing an utter disgrace and shame that causes embarrassment in the Israeli-relations with the USA.