Haaretz: Benny Gantz Is Not The Politician We Were Waiting For To Replace Benjamin Netanyahu

...I'm looking at Benny Gantz's tweet from a few weeks ago and I'm astonished. Someone who was defense minister, IDF chief of staff, who wants to be prime minister, who leads in certain opinion polls, but is walking around with a mind like a sieve.

The background: In the Likud WhatsApp group, an announcement was made about a Sukkot tour to Kibbutz Nirim, called "Preparing to resettle Gaza, together with the core settlement groups," led by minister May Golan... the tour was canceled.

A few days of feigned shock followed, and then Gantz emerged with his opinion on the matter. As a person who strives to find the average in everything, it's no surprise that he was able to achieve the worst of all opinions with his tweet.

"Enough with the hypocrisy," he wrote. "[Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu himself has already said he doesn't intend to allow resettlement in Gaza. But those who nevertheless still support settlement in the Gaza Strip – first, vote in favor of a military service plan that would enable the Israel Defense Forces to have the manpower it needs for its missions, and then go ahead and start planning conferences. Otherwise – who exactly will guard the places? Who will maintain security? Those who have been buckling under the burden for over a year as reservists? Or the regular soldiers whose service keeps getting extended? First vote – then organize conferences."

Sorry, but where does one even start with that? How is it possible to analyze such a dreadful opinion? Is the problem with these settlement-building schemes that they require more manpower from the IDF, and that these very same people are supporting the laws for our Haredi brothers to evade military service? Is that really his opinion on the matter? What a ridiculous reason: "because it requires more manpower."

Is that really why Gantz is opposed to resettlement in Gaza? Because of the draft exemption laws? I refuse to believe that, even if those responsible for the opinions of the political center told him that's what he should say. As though, as far as we're all concerned, if tomorrow 100,000 yeshiva students remove their white shirts and form three new IDF divisions, it's a good idea to rebuild the Netzarim settlement in the Strip? Is that his worldview?...

Does he genuinely believe that if Netanyahu says he "doesn't intend to allow any resettlement in Gaza," then that's it, the prime minister won't allow it? As though any of the messianists are asking Netanyahu, or if Netanyahu's word has any value or meaning anyway. Today he won't allow it; tomorrow, it will depend on what his political interests are....

Settlements in Gaza will be reestablished not because "Netanyahu will say so," but precisely by this method: one conference followed by another, and then one night 30 people will cross the border with a tent, a flag, Israeli journalist Moti Kastel and a sign, and establish a fact on the ground. The police will look the other way, because the Negev district commander wants a promotion from National Security Minister .. Ben-Gvir and won't answer calls from the army enquiring whether to throw the intruders out.

Ben-Gvir will say he won't evacuate them until some Palestinian is evacuated from someplace else, because obviously he's all about equality. Netanyahu will release some lukewarm statements, Gantz will explain that "this isn't the time," and in the end there will be some kind of compromise where the civilians will leave but the army will stay. They'll plant some tree and in order to water it, a car with five settlers will enter daily in order to check that it hasn't dried out. That's the way it will be month after month, and it will become a fact on the ground. That's how it's worked here for 60 years...

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Haaretz . [Archive]

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