former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, Spoke this morning (Friday) with Nissim Mashaal on 103FM about the political upheavals: “The trend is against Netanyahu and it will get worse as the election campaign continues. At the end will be the end of his career. In the current system there is one very significant change that was not before – there is almost universal agreement “That Netanyahu is a crook who is fighting for his political and personal existence and he is willing to sell the country for that.”
Later, he pointed out the difference between Netanyahu and Barak: “Netanyahu is an incomparably talented politician like Barak, even though he is a failed and destructive prime minister and a destructive and cunning man, I recommend you read my articles in Maariv today about Bibi’s crime gang and especially some conversations I had. “With him pointing to the disgusting and unacceptable character and personality of Bibi Netanyahu. There were two senior officers I talked about – Rabin and Arik Sharon.”
I would not eulogize Netanyahu, he is on the field and he can still fight.
“I’m not busy with eulogies, it’s not my field and I’m not a skilled reviewer. I do not want to go into the specifics of each of the lists but to talk about a trend. I think the trend is against Netanyahu, and it will get worse as the election campaign continues. His”.
Explain this sentence to me.
“I think these cards were pretty well arranged before the Corona, he managed because of some degree of weakness or lack of determination or lack of determination on the part of his partners to create a panic that managed to keep him afloat and eventually cause this March 2020 upheaval when Ganz and Ashkenazi joined the government. His and he artificially extended his political life.
But the trend is clear and in the present case, in the present system, there is one very significant change that has not been before. There is an almost universal, sweeping consensus that I do not think there ever was, which represents not the number of Netanyahu’s votes but most of his supporters that Netanyahu is a crook who is fighting for his political existence and his personal existence and is willing to sell the country for it.
So far his political rivals have said this but it does not come from the most representative heart of the Likud. Now it comes from there, it does not come from us, it comes from people like Gideon Saar, Zeev Elkin, “a line of MKs this trend will intensify.”
Despite what you say it still stabilizes around 28-29 seats and does not go down.
“I do not deal with polls, I think there is a very great fear of going captive or deceiving polls at this stage which is relatively early, to assess how the votes will stabilize. I think he will end up with fewer seats, and I do not think there will be a situation where he will form a government. “They are people from the so-called settlement, extreme right-wingers, do not support their views, but they are people who somewhere they are attentive, are not in the gang bubble of the crime family.”
I did not understand the sentence, what does it mean?
“Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked do not live in the gang bubble of the crime family, they live in a place where people from much wider circles meet and this is also the basis on which I think they are trying to lean towards the election to get the number of seats polls give them today. “.
Why not go with Netanyahu?
“They can go into a coalition with Lapid under conditions where Levant will have a very significant expression in the government, there could be a rotation between him and Lapid, I do not know. We fall terribly in love with this sport of taking a poll on Friday and deciding on election results on Friday and then again on Sunday. . I do not know how to give answers to every question, I wish I was so smart and I guess if I were like that they would offer me to submit a program on 103fm, I have not yet reached this level but I can talk about a trend.
I have seen correctly the trends of the election campaign in recent years from experience. I think it is coming to an end to Netanyahu’s political life and he will have to face his fate. It seems to me that Bibi’s big problem will not be to form a coalition, but how to deal with the legal processes that he must face. “
Ayelet Shaked, Naftali Bennett (Photo: Avshalom Shashoni)Damage to the Chief of Staff’s emblem. Maybe Izenkot made the right decision?
“I think he will make a right and wise decision which indicates that Gadi is made of some other materials, as far as I know him and I know him. He does not have that instinct to get to any position and position, he has proved it in his military career as well. He is a restrained guy, Balanced and I think he saw what was going on around and came to the conclusion that he does not want to be the next chief of staff to be played into this cruel grinder of political life without having enough experience and ability to cope.
The truth is that it should come as no surprise, if we look at the political careers of the former chiefs of staff and I think there were 15 chiefs of staff who turned to political life, and very senior officers, I think all of them were only 2 who proved ability that brought them to the top, Rabin and Eric.
What about Barak?
“Ehud Barak sorry, but this is really an episode of curiosity rather than a real process. The man crashed before he started as prime minister.”
You’re shooting free this morning.
“Barak is a very talented man, he was the most failed prime minister who was perhaps apart from Golda in the history of the State of Israel, a year and a quarter even though he made 2 important decisions that I appreciated then and appreciate even more today – leaving Lebanon and the positions he took at Camp David II even though his conduct was delusional.” .
Where is he compared to Netanyahu?
“Netanyahu is an incomparably talented politician like Barak, even though he is a failed and destructive prime minister and a destructive and crooked person, I recommend you read my article today because I do not want to repeat it in the Maariv newspaper about Bibi’s crime gang and especially some conversations I had with him. And the disgusting and unacceptable personality of Bibi Netanyahu.There were two senior officers I talked about – Rabin and Arik.
Rabin became prime minister after a short period and failed completely and waited 15 years in which he matured, studied, was a member of governments and was in the party and went through processes until he matured to understand something in politics that allowed him to return to the post of prime minister and do something significant, Arik Sharon the same. He was elected to the Knesset for the first time in 1973 and became prime minister in 2001, which means it took him quite a few years. “
Will Ron Huldai change the political map or just split even more?
“Ron Huldai is a worthy candidate, the impressive thing about Huldai’s appearance this week was not the suit and tie, he is the only man of all the candidates who defined his political identity accurately and not stuttering. Said things as they are and his presence will be felt in the election campaign I do not know if it will be “In double-digit or single-digit seats, he will be and he will influence. Do not eulogize Bnei Gantz. Remember what I said.”