From the moment the elections wrapped up, Naftali Bennett's path has been rife with distortions and lies that shattered any trace of statesmanlike behavior, truth, or trust in public life. His frenetic, left-wing government is now leading the State of Israel toward grave danger. Every single one of us must oppose this government and act to bring it down.
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The madness of the campaigns to annex Yamina's Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked to the government, on the basis of votes they fraudulently garnered, is unprecedented and leading us to new depths of fraud.
Bennett and Shaked repeated the same line ahead of the election: We commit to being right of [then-] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and we will form a government with him. The fraudsters made this lie the central anchor in their political existence.
The main concern of Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid's party for years was how exactly to transfer the Likud's Knesset seats to their side. Election after election, they failed in this effort. They tried every trick in the book to promote this agenda: They brought in former IDF Chiefs of Staff Benny Gantz, Gabi Ashkenazi, and Moshe Ya'alon to lead the party. It was a tripartite dream. The former security officials would give Netanyahu the fight of his life, or so they thought. No, nothing worked until the cunning Trojan horse in right-wing clothing eventually went with the Left.
The goal of the left-wing government is now to blindly lead us and convince us they are "restoring deterrence and not giving in to terror," as Yamina MK Nir Orbach recently tweeted. Yet who would believe him? This is the same man who "missed" a phone call from his spiritual leader Rabbi Haim Druckman when the latter had hoped to talk to him about his decision to go along with Bennett and join the coalition. Now Orbach wants to put a positive spin on his joint effort with the Left, which saw the establishment of an irresponsible and uninhibited government and adorn it with a throne of security and determination.
This might work with the Israelis, but does anyone really believe US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, or British Prime Minister Prime Boris Johnson buy into this sham? When they talk to Bennett, they won't understand his personal weakness and the shaky government he formed. After all, no Western government has ever been as electorally deficient as Bennett's.
Bennett's sham government is the implementation of politics in the post-truth era. This kind of politics pushes traditional political discussions to the sidelines, focusing instead on personal opinions while bestowing secondary importance to facts.
Does Bennett care that the vast majority of his voters oppose his joining a left-wing government? How can it be that the same man who failed to make it past the electoral threshold in 2019 is now the prime minister?
The consciousness engineers, led by the Haaretz newspaper, led the opposition to Netanyahu and framed it in such a way that anything he did was illegitimate and extreme. They created and encouraged a war between the "good" and the "bad." Every fact about Netanyahu was negative, pessimistic, and polarizing. Bennett is the clear outcome of this post-truth culture that positions itself as the one genuine truth.
Yet Bennett will pay for his actions. The day is not far off when he and his loyal party members will once again need to look their voters in the eye. Perhaps 2019 will repeat itself and Bennett will find himself looking for a few hundred voters willing to get him past the electoral threshold.
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