Journalist Ari Shavit made headlines this week when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared on social media a segment in which Shavit declares in a panel on Channel 13 that the vaccination campaign is “the greatest Israeli achievement.” Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak called Shavit “delusional” following the remarks. This morning (Monday) Shavit spoke with Yinon Magal and Yariv Oppenheimer on 103FM.
“The significant moment for me was that I see my mother getting the vaccine, the HMO system calls her, she comes, a lovely and dedicated Arab brother takes care of her and she leaves in five minutes. This is while my best friends, journalists in America, call and say ‘We sit scared at home “People over the age of 60, we have no vaccine and we have no chance of being vaccinated.” My 91-year-old mother accepts as one person, like a million other Israelis – this is the embodiment of Israeli democracy. “Protected by an amazing health care system, and by an amazing Israeli system like no other citizen in any country is protected,” Shavit said.
My problem is the connection to the revered leader.
“Netanyahu is not satisfied with anything, the fact that there is a journalist who tries to be fair to him even though he does not agree with anything is not enough for him, so he distorts my words, and then your friends, who do not believe the word Bibi says, take Bibi’s distortion of my words, and use it The sentence that Bibi issued – I did not say it, and then Barak and society ‘… I said first of all that it is an amazing Israeli achievement, I say that there is potential here … If there are no bad surprises, since the six days we have not had a crushing victory , And this is the potential for the most overwhelming victory in the Corona War. Then I say four words that Netanyahu deserves the credit, and I completely say that, but most of the credit goes to the members of the labor movement who despise them and trample on them. “
Haim Ramon tweeted today that the person who opposed the reform of the health system was the Labor Party and the Histadrut.
“I try to be fair with everyone and I wrote, first level what the labor movement built, second level what Chaim Ramon, and I am not his follower, what he did, and the Rabin government modernized and created one of the most efficient systems in the world, and most credit goes to all the amazing teams. We have amazing hospitals and amazing HMOs.What is the credit to Netanyahu? Look what a beauty of an Israeli story, the conservative Netanyahu, who thankfully failed to make us a privatization of health care, is going to sell to Pfizer the public system of Israel, there is no other system with such credibility, system “A public that gives everyone a fairly high level of health service. Netanyahu deserves a lot of credit. If his focus was not on the right thing, his stubbornness and his energy, he drove the Pfizer people crazy, sold it to them, the Ministry of Health has an outstanding team that set up the infrastructure.”
Our vaccine harms us, puts Pfizer in trouble.
“Do you think anyone in the world is watching Channel 12? We are inside our poor swamp, are they interested in our swamp? All over the world we are facing an Israeli victory like no other.”
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“Were strong in vaccinations and closures, Netanyahu has an excellent strategic understanding, but he manages very poorly. Therefore, the whole period of attrition in between, how to open and when to open and the traffic light, a mediocre procedure, but the major strategic decisions were made in the world.” “In an excellent place in the world, thanks to a young population, an island country with an excellent health system. Bibi has so much time, not Bibi, there are two months for elections.”
How do you explain the pathology of acidity?
“The biggest problem of the Israeli center-left is that he did not develop a positive ethos, the leftists and the centrists forgot who they are, they sell socialism? Everything left from the center left and I say this with great sorrow – the tragedy of the center-left which is against Bibi, against the occupation, Against the settlers, but what are you for? The poor way the center-left is coming to this election, it’s not just because there is no leader, it’s because it has no way, no principles. Where is the new Berl? Where did they renew the labor movement? “If the center-left brings a positive message, which loves the people of Israel, who are proud of the State of Israel, and do not constantly engage in Bibi’s obsession, he will defeat Bibi ‘Big Time’.”
All of Bibi’s achievements are a policy of the left.
“Well, where is the problem revealed? The Zionist Center, what is its tragedy? That it is now willing to support annexation supporters and people who destroyed the judicial system for ideological reasons just because it is against Bibi, how can that be? When the public outside Tel Aviv sees the brass behaving and not bringing A significant positive message. “