Showing posts with label Yitzchak Wasserlauf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yitzchak Wasserlauf. Show all posts
Jun 23, 2024
low hanging fruit
There was some strange incident near the end of this past week. PM Netanyahu tried to appoint someone (Avi Cohen Scali from Bet Shemesh) to the position of "Projector" for Northern Israel. Netanyahu retracted the appointment pretty quickly and there were some explanations as to why, but this is just another strange incident with Netanyahu about which we will never really know the truth.
It seems Minister Yitzchak Wasserlauf had said that he will not support a political appointment like that.
Today Netanyahu excoriated Wasserlauf in the government's meeting. Netanyahu said he will not be threatened by Ministers to vote against the government. That is unacceptable. I am not willing to allow ministers to threaten the Prime Minister.
Netanyahu is being big and angry and scolding against a minor minister, while he lets other ministers, more senior ones and those with more sway and influence, threaten him and his government 2 to 3 times a week. And simple MKs as well. Between Ben Gvir and Gafni and Deri along with others, Netanyahu has probably been threatened a record number of times over the past few months. Yet he says nothing because he cannot afford to anger them and drive them away.
Ben Gvir might choose to back his guy (Wasserlauf) up, but it seems more likely he will just let this haranguing slide. Netanyahu can save some face going after the unimportant low hanging fruit while he lets the more difficult people walk all over him...
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Aug 24, 2022
Otzma Yehudit's witty and unimpressive number two
Srugim interviewed Yitzchak Wasserlauf (sp?), the candidate in the number two slot for the Otzma Yehudit party list for Knesset. I never heard of him before and know nothing about him, but I do find him, from just this interview, to be both witty, which I like, and unimpressive, which I dont like, at the same time.
Specifically referring to the portion of the interview in which they discussed the Otzma Yehudit policy they want to push in the next government should they be a part of it that will have anyone deemed unfaithful to the State of Israel banished from Israel - Wasserlauf explains that anyone who throws rocks or molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers or does other things to harm the State of Israel and supports murderers of babies will be banished.
So I like that he has already worked out that the way the deportation will work is that they will take the same people who planned the banishment of Jews from their homes in Gush Katif back in 2005 with fully staffed professionals who worked out all the details. Those same people who did such a good and professional job evicting thousands of Jews from their homes and deporting them to other part s of the country should be able to put together a plan to banish and deport people who are disloyal to the State of Israel.
Now that is witty. I like that.
What I think is unimpressive and what I dont like is that with all this time that he had until now, all he can come up with is a headline - we will deport the unfaithful - but has no actual plans. When asked for even the most basic details of his grandiose plan, such as how it will work, how they will determine who is unfaithful, where to deport to, how to deport, he has no answers and says they will have to work that out but right now they just want to talk about the concept.
Sorry, but that is unimpressive. If this is something they actually want to do, they need to be ready to present a plan, even knowing it will have to be adjusted and amended later. If all it is even in their own heads is a headline, this is something that is never going to happen and something they never intend on even trying to push forward.
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