Now I think Netanyahu should resign immediately or somehow be forced out of office.
Netanyahu has not kept any of his major campaign promises, and the security situation has deteriorated very significantly recently, with no solution to be implemented in sight, except for bandaids.
The campaign promise that bothers me the most is his promise of a proposal for electoral reform within the first 100 days after the elections.
Since the elections we have not heard a word about it.
There are issues of economics and peace talks and other stuff that I consider less critical, but basically Israel has not advanced on anything, from a governmental perspective, in the past year.
And the way the security situation has deteriorated is very troubling. Netanyahu has always sold himself as Mr. Security, and he has always, more or less, been pretty decent on security issues. Recently he seems to have lost control.
Netanyahu is hesitant, for whatever reason, to implement any serious policies to curtail the violence and makes announcements of bandaids - more and faster home demolitions, more security forces on the streets, and more use of administrative detentions, among others.
Basically, more of the same.
People should be fed up. People should be demanding his resignation. Politicians should either pressure Netanyahu to implement serious policy changes to deal with the security situation or force him to resign, even if by leaving the government.
Netanyahu is a great talker, especially on a world stage. The time for talk has passed. Israelis are being killed, with no response. The time for action is now, and Netanyahu seems to not be the right guy for that.
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What "serious policies" would your ideal government implement?
ReplyDeleteI dont know but that's their job, not mine. I am not the expert in these matters to say, wipe out the village, kill them, death penalty, or ban jews from temple mount or ban arabs from temple mount or give away half of jerusalem or whatever. more of the same wont work, as it hasnt worked until now. they need to figure out what will or let someone else try
ReplyDeleteNever expect a politician to keep campaign promises. You're always be disappointed. I think that it's better to look at what the politician actually does, and not what they claim they will do. People say all sorts of things for all sorts of reasons, but their actions are where the true impact lie.
ReplyDeleteThe basic issue is that there is absolutely no reason to think anyone else would be better in any objective way. There is only one solution to the problem of violence instigated by Arabs, and if Bibi does not have the political will to implement it, you can bet there isn't a single politician in the country who would.
And I don't blame Bibi for not pursuing the solution. It's not easy to be in a position where the world hates you and the country you represent. Purging Arabs from the West Bank would simply prove the world is "right" after all. We already know the world cares nothing for context. Non-Arab lives in Israel do not matter. Arab lives always matter, even if they just murdered a dozen non-Arabs. This is the reality in which Bibi has to consider his response. Expecting quick reactions is asking for rash actions. We've had enough of that, I would think.
so we should just wait it out?
ReplyDeletewaiting it out has gotten us, so far, into increasingly worse situations.
the world hates us and cares nothing of context, but also doesnt care that we use restraint. the moment we break that restraint because it has gotten to be too much they forget how good we were.
I dont know what BY proposed, but I saw a headline that Netanyahu rejected their demands to increase security without even considering their proposals. Maybe they didnt have any good ideas, but if he doesnt try anything (earlier their was a headline quoting Yaalon saying something about no coming significant changes in strategy from a army perspective) we can just expect worse.
I dont envy his position, but I do not believe that if Netanyahu cant nobody else can either
Yaalon is even more worthless, and the Likud members who supported the ticket anyway are to blame for that, the writing was on the wall.
DeleteI said I don't blame him; I didn't say that I agree. Inaction is a bad sign in a leader, and it's said that a bad plan well-executed is better than no action at all. However, I think that we should be considering just how difficult the situation is before we demand hasty reactions to current events. The normal activity of searching for and arresting the attackers is taking place. If you don't have any ideas on what else is to be done, why are you demanding that someone "do something"? I would understand supporting a candidate with a specific plan, but first we need a plan.
ReplyDeleteThink how much better off the US would be, for example, if the reaction to 9/11 had been better considered? No war in Iraq, no endless fighting in Afghanistan, no Patriot Act. No TSA. Probably no ISIS (no instability in Iraq). The call to "do something and do it now!" is very dangerous when made to a politician with considerable military capability. The consequences for all involved are difficult to foresee.
from what I understand the army and police and government all have multiple plans at any given time to deal with a wide range of scenarios, so they shouldnt need to whip up a plan in a day or two. they should decide the current one isnt working and move on to plan B.
ReplyDeleteand if they feel they need to devise a new plan, they should let us know about that, in some form or another. all it looks like right now, to me at least, is that they are taking the same plan a, adding a tiny bit to it, and continuing with it. and from past experience many suspect that this is temporary and in a few days or a week they'll ease back.
And who, pray tell, do you think would be the politician who would improve the security situation?
ReplyDeletesomebody should take the lead and lead the "revolution".
ReplyDeleteWhether it is Bennet or Herzog or Saar or Shaked or Barkat or Lapid or somebody unknown or lesser known who siezes the opportunity.
this doesn't have to happen according to the politician I'd like to see in charge. This is the perfect opportunity for someone to step up and show some leadership. whomever it may be
Jews are being murdered daily, and you're complaining about campaign promises???
ReplyDeleteNetanyahu has only one core principle, and this has never changed: To do whatever has to be done to stay in power no matter what.
And Jews continue to be murdered daily because they're Jews...
the only campaign promise that bothers me is the one that, in my best scenario, is the one that would have been used to get Netanyahu to retire from politics.
ReplyDeleteyou are right, Jews are being killed and all those campaign promises are petty to think about in light of that. But for the rising politician who might seize the opportunity to oust Netabnyahu, he, or she, might need to attack on more than just security, and all those other issues are fair game as well.
There's been no government, no PM, no nothing for twenty years (probably more, but i'm not in the mood to figure it out now.)
ReplyDeleteSo what are you complaining about?
There's no one else, anyway.
(Same thing here in the states. That's why people love trump. But he's another story.) ((Maybe a trade. Trump for netanyahu.)