Netanyahu has the deterrent impact of a rusty trumpet
[ Original Hebrew Headline: Important update for every Hebrew (Jewish) mother: The fate of your children is no longer entrusted to commanders who are worthy of it ]
By Yasmin Levy • Translated by Sol Salbe
After October 7, some people had assumed that the one know as “the Accused” would rise above the ruins and try to improve, ever-so-slightly, his legacy, for the sake of history. To rid himself of the extremists, get all the abductees back, halt the regime coups manoeuvres, and strive for normalisation with Saudi Arabia, as a politician with vision. In recent days, even the last of the naïve innocents would have internalised that Netanyahu has given up. Not given up on power, heaven forbid, but on groundbreaking diplomatic achievements, in the league of the greats.
Anyone immersed in a miserable survival war is incapable of fantasising beyond basic needs. In the case of the ruler, these are not oxygen, food, and water (as they appear in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) but preserving the coalition and continuing the war as a key to his freedom. Clinging to the altar’s horns does not allow for rising to the stage of “self-actualisation” at the top of the pyramid, where the President of the United States is located.
While Donald Trump conquered the Middle East, closed deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars and had his photo taken with his loved ones viz the Saudi Crown Prince and Syrian President, Benjamin Netanyahu was stuck here. Netanyahu was forced to appear at his trial while he was torpedoing a hostage deal and spreading hollow threats against the Houthis alongside DM Israel Katz. There was no justification for airing the shameful farce in which two failed players, with the deterrent impact of a rusty trumpet, tried to portray scary generals.
Instead of stopping the war and posing alongside world leaders, Netanyahu has gone so far downhill to the point where the highlight of his day is standing next to the proxy-clown in a joint video. “If the Houthis continue to fire missiles at the State of Israel, they will be severely hit, and we will also hit their leaders. Just like we did to Mohammed Deif and the Sinwars in Gaza,” Katz prattled with his little fist clenched. “We are not willing to sit on the sidelines and let the Houthis hit us. We will hit them much more,” added Netanyahu who is actually willing to sit on the sidelines and let the Houthis hit us. The pair knows that the Houthis will probably stop firing missiles if the bloodshed in Gaza ends, but they need a war and therefore it will broaden. Unless Trump forces them otherwise.
Par for the course, the commentary teams in the studios engaged in whitewashing. “Expanding the manoeuvre”, “Operation Gideon Chariots [Merkavot Gideon]” Instead of calling the crime by its name: the Israeli government has embarked on the expansion of the subterfuge and launch operation “Chariots to eliminate the chances of freeing the hostages”. “ Another day, another horrific massacre in Gaza. This cannot go on. Netanyahu is out of control and must be stopped,” tweeted British media personality Piers Morgan. He was telling the truth to his millions of followers. This is from the man who, after the Hamas attack, had not stopped supporting Israel and its right to defend itself. The Chief of Staff, the Commander of the Air Force and the rest of the collaborators are all obeying the Supreme Destroyer. They are leading us to a catastrophe, carrying out wholesale slaughter, are responsible for the sights of amputated children, and endanger both fighters and abductees. To update Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion: Let every Hebrew [Jewish] mother know that she has entrusted the fate of her children to commanders who are not worthy of it.
