Secret deal exposed: "Netanyahu works for the Israeli Deep-state elite"

I do not watch the news, but a few years ago I remember watching an interview of the Netanyahu with Yonit Levi of Channel 12, which ended in a tie/slight advantage to Netanyahu. In the interview, the fact that bizarre legal cases were fabricated against him was indeed mentioned, but regarding the context for the fabrication, neither Netanyahu nor channel 12 will agree to say a word.

The context of the fabrication is that an unwritten agreement was signed between Bibi and Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish already in 2009. The contract, an earlier version of which already existed between Netanyahu and Aharon Barak in 1996, ensured the court 'quiet' from the right in Israel and Netanyahu got 'quiet' from the deepest power center of the Israeli left.

Bibi would grant the bureaucracy the ability to implement progressive policies that would allow every Attorney General under the sun to realize educational-cultural-judicial-social policies—and Bibi would receive the chant "Haide Bibi," from the ignorant masses, a control of the economy, and continuous responsibility for diplomatic issues, in which, of course, the court would also receive a significant share in dictating security and settlement policies.

Indeed, the division of roles was clear until 2015. Then, in one of the great turning points in Israel’s history, the legal establishment decided to act against their number 1 protecter Netanyahu, at which point the media also joined the circus in an intensified manner—the rest, as is known, is history.

It is difficult to say whether the breaking of the contract was the result of emotion or reality from court's perspective—Netanyahu, in practice, upheld the agreement, and they violated it.

A Palestinian state? Agreed.

Activist courts? Absolute compliance.

The prosecution? Controls every fresh vine.

The Histadrut? Revived.

The ridiculous Law of Return? Remains.

The situation in the Negev? Continues.

Infiltrators? Soon they will vote for him just as the immigrants of the 1950s voted for Ben-Gurion.

European organizations controlling Israel from within? Why not.

Judges’ committees? Industrial quiet.

A supervisory body over the prosecution? Another fantasy of.

LGBTQ? Historic progressive reforms.

Hamas and Hezbollah? Alive and kicking.

In practice, apart from low-cost flights (Open Skies), Bibi did nothing for his traditional base, which, as I will argue, is not driven by religious or national sentiment but mainly by money and honor.

The legal elite fabricated ridiculous cases precisely when Bibi adhered to the unwritten agreement. Precisely after he never threatened the rule of the bureaucrats. So what political or ideological crime could they even pin on him? This is, of course, the unpleasant truth about which Yonit and Bibi silently agree.

The same deal that Begin and Netanyahu made, which professional victims like Avishai Ben-Haim simply cannot understand.

The reason they do not understand this is that indirectly, the brainwashing regarding the Palestinian issue has already emptied "Second Israel" of its values, which in any case never created positive political values.

Netanyahu’s clueless base still thinks that right and left should be linked to territorial questions and Zionism’s stance towards the Arab national movement in the Land of Israel.

They throw at Netanyahu’s opponents from the right, “What, a Palestinian state?” when in practice, Bibi gave his consent to the creation of another state within Israel—a state of all its citizens.

That’s fine. From the 12th floor in the nouveau riche towers of West Rishon, they no longer see the ground—maybe when they go on a food tour or a Selichot tour in Nachlaot—there’s nothing to do, the sentimental nostalgia and ignorance have reached the heart of "Second Israel" as well.

A bit of history

On the political level, as a pragmatist, Netanyahu understood very well (like quite a few veterans of the Labor Party) that the Palestinian issue is a strategic tool for the State of Israel, which should be used mainly as a guard dog against the "left."

He is not stupid.

Dr. Yehuda Atai, who recruited him to the paratroopers, tells that when he sat with Bibi over a glass of whiskey in Washington, Bibi already knew (since the 1980s) that the left controls all power centers, and therefore he went to Likud because “there is no one there” (a quote from Bibi in Atai’s words). Along the way, the Palestinian issue was well exploited in that early period.

Indeed, it is even more evident that the statement about Likud (“there is no one there to battle me”) was made in 1982, at the height of the Lebanon War, when the media and the Cahen Commission were taking down Sharon and Begin, emptying Likud of the two charismatic figures that remained after the departure of Weizman and Dayan, and when the Palestinian issue was gaining unprecedented prominence. Indeed, people like Avishai Ben-Haim do not understand history, law, or Begin and Bibi, yet they still write about them.

They understand "Second Israel" and the strange enthusiasm for the "Polish right-wing" leaders more than they understand the leaders themselves.

That’s fine. Maybe because I am a Polish-right-winger, I understand the silent deal between the two Polish extremes at the head of the "right-wing" party and the Lithuanian one at the head of the judicial system.

But reinforcement for the thesis of the deal with the leftist elites that Bibi signed (which was broken in 2015) and which will never be mentioned in an interview (because it would embarrass both the left and Bibi) comes not only from the fact that Yehuda Aati exposes that Bibi went to Likud because there was no one there, but also from the fact that Bibi never cared to change the reality that "there is no one else but him in the Likud."

The conversation between Atai and Netanyahu took place when the power centers were rapidly shifting to the judicial arena under Shamgar. But even afterward, Bibi continued to empty Likud of princes (and perhaps rightly so), leaving the right-wing arena empty (except for Sharon and Olmert), and granting the left the social/cultural/educational/media arena through which he himself would be attacked.

True, this is a confrontation that Bibi himself did not want, but structurally/identity-wise, he knew it was necessary. And he had prepared for this war already when he sought to take over this party 43 years ago.

Just as Begin prepared the "Alliance of the Oppressed" in the mid-1950s.

And in doing so, to blur the volatility, Netanyahu was willing to abandon any ideological spark since 1996 and turn himself into the wet dream of the judicial elite in domestic and social matters—that is also something Yonit Levi will not talk about.

Therefore, far left Gideon Levy is on his side, since he also understands that aside from the scarecrow called “occupation,” Bibi is a hot fantasy on the beach in Zanzibar for the liberal-radical left—and that only “traditional” voters who care about honor, power, and money more than understanding the direction of development and the roots of Jewish religion and nationhood, and whose ability to read demographic and ideological processes is equal to my ability to analyze information systems at Amdocs—can buy into it.

Only they will be foolish and forgetful enough to call him "right-wing" and believe that he is lying to them when he says, “It’s me against the left,” the same judicial left that Netanyahu got into bed with.

To some extent, Bibi built on the stupidity of the right and on the sincerity of the judicial elites, who, as long as they could do as they pleased in our country, would give him industrial quiet.

Therefore, it is good that the judicial elite betrayed him and exposed at least one facet of Netanyahu’s Machiavellianism.

In practice, we all know which voter segment remained submissive and which elite broke the deal.

But it is important to remember that the fact that the elite broke a deal with Bibi does not mean we should pity him and see him as a victim, since in sacrificing (in a broken deal) the Jewish identity and governance of the state for quiet for 30 years, Netanyahu exposed his somewhat pathetic face both as a politician and as a statesman.

Indeed, here Netanyahu turned out to be somewhat of a fool.