PM Netanyahu Receives The Requisite 61 Signatures

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7 May 2020

Quote of the Day

“My friends from religious Zionism, the dream of annexation will not come true. Netanyahu will hold it in front of your nose and deny it over and over again with various and different excuses . . .”

Yair Golan, former IDF Chief of Staff

As much as I despise Yair Golan (the same Yair Golan who deleted his “Jewishness” from his twitter account a few months ago, and last year described the “right” in Israel as similar to Nazis in Germany in the 1930s), there is good reason to believe that Golan may be right about Netanyahu and annexation.

After all, we have all seen how Netanyahu has dangled construction in Judea and Samaria in front of the noses of Jewish community members for the past 12 years and denied it time and again. Insofar as sovereignty and annexation are concerned, we already know what the excuses might be: it could lead to another Palestinian intifada; it could destabilize Jordan; it will antagonize Egypt; it will alienate the Europeans; the Trump Administration has changed its mind, and on and on.

Let’s hope that we see a different Netanyahu on July 1 when the sovereignty effort is supposed to begin.

The News on the Israeli Street

The daily Corona update . . .

8 pm Thursday: There are now  16,381 confirmed cases of Corona in Israel. 68 people are on ventilators. 240 Israelis have died. 10,873 have recovered.

The daily Jordanian rant . . .

Yawn.

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemned Defense Minister Naftali Bennett’s decision to approve the beginning of the planning process at Efrat which could eventually lead to as many as 20,000 new residential units. According to the Jordanians, Bennett’s announcement is “a blatant violation of international law, humanitarian law, and decisions of the Security Council and is a unilateral and dangerous step.”

Yawn.

It was just a few days ago that the Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemned Defense Minister Bennett for approving the construction of disability access for Arabs and Jews to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron claiming it is “a blatant violation of international law, humanitarian law, and decisions of the Security Council and is a unilateral and dangerous step.”

Yawn.

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By the way, this is all coming from the same Jordanian government that kicked Israeli farmers out for good from the agricultural enclave along the border a few weeks ago.

Iranian cyber attack . . .

In case you missed it, Fox news revealed yesterday that the Iranians hacked into American computer servers to mount an attack on Israeli water infrastructure last month.

The attack was discovered and was unsuccessful.

Some good news . . .

*U.S. special forces have apparently killed the new ISIS leader in Syria.

*The Turkish currency continues to tank, down to 7.19 Turkish lira to one dollar on the black market. By the way, Turkish PM Erdogan has issued a decree forbidding Turkish schoolchildren from drawing or painting rainbows as part of his anti-gay crusade this Ramadan.

TODAY’S BLOG

PM Netanyahu Receives The Requisite 61 Signatures

The new Israeli government will be sworn in next Wednesday, May 13 after passing the required number of readings in the Knesset–and 61 Knesset members having recommended PM Netanyahu to form a government.

Actually, 72 legislators voted for Netanyahu.

Who were the 72? All of the Knesset members of Likud (36), Shas (9), United Torah Judaism (7), Labor (3), Derech Eretz (2) (if you have never heard of Derech Eretz before, it is the two person party of Hauser and Handel that broke off from Kahol Lavan after the election), and Gesher (1).

Interestingly, 1 member of Gantz’s Kahol Lavan did not support Netanyahu–meaning that only 14 members of the Party did. Gantz then asked President Rivlin not to reveal the names of its members who voted for Netanyahu. Rivlin declined to go along and revealed everyone.

Notably missing from the 72 are the six Knesset members from Yamina–the party which is to the right of Netanyahu’s Likud. Headed by Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, the party has made it known that it will not be a part of the Coalition unless it receives a senior ministerial post. More specifically, Bennett has asked for the Health Ministry.

Also missing are the Joint Arab List and Yisrael Beiteinu, the latter the party of Avigdor Lieberman. In what can only be described as theater of the absurd, Lieberman served notice today that he is running for prime minister in the next election.

And so it goes in Israel today.