Bennett was a great PM who brought in Mansour Abbas into the Cabinet, which has helped temper Arab Israeli protests, unlike 2021.
As for public diplomacy, if Bennett rehires outstanding spokesmen like Eylon Levy and Noa Tishby, who were fired by Netanyahu and prevents Cabinet Ministers from making incendiary statements that lead nowhere, he will have improved vastly over today's government.
My brother and his family made Aliyah 20 years ago, and they have supported Bennett for quite some time, so I read this with interest. I found it very interesting, but I do have a comment on your conclusion.
You wrote: Israel needs leadership, not branding. It needs strength, not spin.
Fair point, and I would say it applies to every country. But in order to lead, you have to get elected, and in order to get elected, for better or worse you have to create a brand and spin whatever needs to be spun.
Clearly you don't support Bennett which is fine, but accusing a politician of branding and spinning narratives is kind of like accusing him of breathing.
I genuinely appreciate the response. I find it deeply unsettling how he's now pushing an anti-Israel narrative for political gain. There's a disingenuousness to it that feels impossible to ignore—something just doesn't sit right.
I don't really think he's doing that; more of an anti-Bibi narrative, but that is semantics.
However, given that I have become deeply cynical of all politics (American so thats easy these days), I tend to just attribute what he says to cynical politics. Which, as you put it, doesn't sit right. It never does.
FWIW, its clearly beyond time for Bibi to go, out to pasture or jail, whatever.
I don’t think he wants to stop the war now. This is about what happens after Nethanyahu finish the operational work and pays the inevitable political cost of October 7th.
Nethanyahu is the fuse whose political sacrifice will stop the slide towards pariah state status.
I don’t believe that someone who believes in Israel’s mission refers to it as a “leper” and dedicated a post to attacking the government in such a way.
They will all blame Nethanyahu as soon as Hamas is defeated. And the pariah state problem is real. Not recognizing it is the worst mistake is the Israel right. Some final status scenario shall be outilined for the Palestinians, even if it is not full sovereignty.
Bennett was a great PM who brought in Mansour Abbas into the Cabinet, which has helped temper Arab Israeli protests, unlike 2021.
As for public diplomacy, if Bennett rehires outstanding spokesmen like Eylon Levy and Noa Tishby, who were fired by Netanyahu and prevents Cabinet Ministers from making incendiary statements that lead nowhere, he will have improved vastly over today's government.
“He implied that under his brief, centrist premiership, things were more stable”
Well, they actually were.
How do I know? I live in Israel and watched things happen in real time.
Denying the truth does רק ביבי המלך המשיח adherents no favours.
My brother and his family made Aliyah 20 years ago, and they have supported Bennett for quite some time, so I read this with interest. I found it very interesting, but I do have a comment on your conclusion.
You wrote: Israel needs leadership, not branding. It needs strength, not spin.
Fair point, and I would say it applies to every country. But in order to lead, you have to get elected, and in order to get elected, for better or worse you have to create a brand and spin whatever needs to be spun.
Clearly you don't support Bennett which is fine, but accusing a politician of branding and spinning narratives is kind of like accusing him of breathing.
I genuinely appreciate the response. I find it deeply unsettling how he's now pushing an anti-Israel narrative for political gain. There's a disingenuousness to it that feels impossible to ignore—something just doesn't sit right.
I don't really think he's doing that; more of an anti-Bibi narrative, but that is semantics.
However, given that I have become deeply cynical of all politics (American so thats easy these days), I tend to just attribute what he says to cynical politics. Which, as you put it, doesn't sit right. It never does.
FWIW, its clearly beyond time for Bibi to go, out to pasture or jail, whatever.
I don’t think he wants to stop the war now. This is about what happens after Nethanyahu finish the operational work and pays the inevitable political cost of October 7th.
Nethanyahu is the fuse whose political sacrifice will stop the slide towards pariah state status.
I don’t believe that someone who believes in Israel’s mission refers to it as a “leper” and dedicated a post to attacking the government in such a way.
They will all blame Nethanyahu as soon as Hamas is defeated. And the pariah state problem is real. Not recognizing it is the worst mistake is the Israel right. Some final status scenario shall be outilined for the Palestinians, even if it is not full sovereignty.