Israeli writer mocks Netanyahu, warns against clash with Biden | News

A famous Israeli writer mocked the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Who accused him of continuing to sabotage relations with the United States and engaging in internal battles at a time when Israel is preparing for a confrontation with Iran andHezbollah.

In his article in Maariv, Ben Caspit launched a scathing attack on Netanyahu, saying that he “stood frozen and petrified in the face of history and refrained from doing the right thing at a time when Israel is forced to fight in 7 different arenas.”

“The envelope (Gaza envelope) has been shattered and fires are raging in the north and in Israel, but Netanyahu still rejects a deal with Hamas that would lead to a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia and the establishment of a regional defense alliance against Iran. Instead, he prefers to clash with President Biden, evade (once again) his responsibility for October 7, and look for ways to oust his Defense Minister Yoav Galant,” he said.

shared values

The writer spoke about American support for Israel, and described the dispatch of fighters, aircraft carriers, submarines and battleships to the region as “impressive, and carried out quickly and efficiently over the past two weeks.”

While talking about the US President's order Joe Biden Using all of America’s power to provide that support, the writer asked, “Assuming we survive this crisis as well, how long do you think it will take for the Netanyahu poison machine to attack Americans again and start criticizing the Biden administration or his deputy and the upcoming presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and even accusing her of being anti-Semitic?” He replied sarcastically, “Something between half an hour and half a day.”

“I hope and pray for all of us that we never reach the day when an American president gets tired of this ridiculous gang and the country they have taken over,” he said. “Unfortunately, we are getting closer to that day.”

The writer claimed that traditional American support for Israel was based more than anything else on “shared values,” noting that Israel was called “the only democracy in the Middle East” and was seen as the largest “American aircraft carrier,” and he said that it had lost these advantages, blaming Netanyahu for this, who “believes that all other creatures on Earth are in fact destined to provide services to Israel.”

The writer accused Netanyahu and his government followers of “tearing up Israel’s vital life insurance policy,” and said, “Can you imagine October 7 without Biden arriving surrounded by aircraft carriers and his famous threats to Iran and Hezbollah?”

“Today it is completely clear that at the beginning of the war the Americans prevented Hassan Nasrallah and his Radwan force from joining the war, which would have led to a disaster. In the current days the Americans have used all their tools to rein in all parties, and they have confronted the ring of fire that is intensifying around Israel with an even more powerful ring of fire,” he continued.

He concluded by asking, “Can we imagine all this without this alliance with the United States?”

Ben Caspit stressed that “the United States will stand by Israel if it is attacked, and will do everything to defend it, but it will not participate in igniting the region, will not participate in waging a regional war, and will not support exaggerated or excessively violent responses by any party.”

But he said, “I'm not sure Netanyahu should be afraid of a regional war,” noting that “the problem is that he has long been out of control of the situation, he is a sock puppet manipulated by Ben-Gvir and Smotrich from here and the wife (Sara) and son (Yair) from there.”

The writer stressed the fact that all Israeli prime ministers understood the enormous importance of American support, but Netanyahu “quarreled with previous American presidents, while Joe Biden (the last Democratic president to call himself a Zionist) could no longer tolerate Netanyahu's evasions.”

Normalization and stopping the war

While Ben Caspit spoke about the American announcement of success in bridging the gaps between the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) and Israel to reach a ceasefire agreement, he considered that “the Israeli signing of this agreement will make it possible to reach a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia almost immediately and establish the regional anti-Iran alliance headed by the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel.”

“It will also help close the event in the north with or without an agreement. This will turn our defeat on October 7 into a kind of strategic victory in general,” he added.

“This event is what Netanyahu has dreamed of all his life, but now he is not taking this step, and he stands frozen and petrified before history, like a deer caught in the beams of a speeding car just before the collision. He is trembling, he is afraid,” he said.

“He knows that in order to be accepted by Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and many other countries, he has to mumble something about the Palestinian issue, he needs to return to the path of negotiations,” he explained.

But the writer returned to confirm the position of the political parties in Israel, and said, reassuring Netanyahu, “We do not need to establish a Palestinian state. The chances of such a thing happening in our generation are low and almost non-existent.” He justified this by saying, “There is no one on the other side (the Palestinians) who can sign any agreement with Israel.”

In this context, he stressed the truth of Netanyahu's position that he “does not fear the establishment of a Palestinian state, but rather fears the collapse of his government.”

“And for this reason and because of this only, he mortgaged all of our futures, bet on everyone's security, and told himself that he was waiting for Donald Trump “Even though he knows that the chances of this opportunity (the swap deal) being lost by the time Trump arrives are very high, and the confidence that Trump will come at some point is not what it used to be, right now Kamala Harris has tremendous momentum.”

The writer criticized Netanyahu's term “complete victory,” saying that continuing the war would not achieve that.

“The statement that captivated me from that interview was: I will remain prime minister as long as I can lead Israel to security,” he said of his interview with Time magazine this week. “A statement that should be given a special classification as one of the most far-fetched statements ever made. Do you aspire to lead us to security, Bibi? After all, you have been leading us to that security for 17 years. You have long since surpassed Ben-Gurion’s record. Look around you. Look where you have led us… to 1,500 dead, 250 kidnapped, the occupation of the Gaza Strip by Hamas, and the total destruction of northern communities. Iran attacked us for the first time from its territory with hundreds of rockets and missiles. The Houthis attacked us for the first time in Eilat and Tel Aviv.”

He added, describing the state that Israel has reached under Netanyahu’s leadership, “Tens of thousands of Israelis from the north and south are refugees in their own country, seven arenas are fighting Israel simultaneously, Israel has become a pariah state in the world, the International Criminal Court in The Hague has turned us into half of South Africa, our credit rating has been lowered for the first time in history, sanctions have been imposed on Israeli citizens, Israel has imposed an official and unofficial embargo by its allies, our envelope has been burned, and we have abandoned the Upper Galilee… Israelis bury their dead in the middle of the night and flee for their lives. This is where you have led us. How can you not be ashamed?”

He concluded his article by saying, “The continued dismantling of the independent judiciary is the latest barrier separating us from officially declaring Israel a pariah state.”