Hamas/Gaza War Musings #65: Bibi's "Guilt?"

The so-called corruption trials against PM Binyamin Netanyahu have been in the news even more recently. He took US President Trump's hint to ask for a "pardon," which is a mistake for many reasons. The charges are classic "warfare." No proof of any crime has turned up, and even worse... it's no secret that a crew of "legal experts" dedicated their time to search for something to pin on Bibi. So far, no crimes have been proven.

If you read my blog and Facebook, you'll know that I consider him a dangerous failure as Prime Minister, but not a criminal. This horrid, dangerous war is proof of his total incompetence. Please remember the simple fact that Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu has been Prime Minister for close to twenty 20, yes TWENTY YEARS. The "buck stops" on his desk and no place else. 

Bibi's guilty but not of a criminal-type crime. It's simple over-ambition and incompetence.

Bibi Netanyahu's guilt includes his way of governing, allowing the "glass ceilings" to continue in the Justice Department, Defense Department, Shabak, Police, IDF etc. In that sense, he has been following what Menachem Begin did when he became Prime Minister in 1977. Begin didn't replace the powerful government employees who control what really happens in government.  The Labor Left never left the power it had even before the State of Israel was declared. They were the only Jews recognized by the British Mandate rulers as authorities. Anyone associated with the Jabotinsky Revisionists, Etzel or Lechi (Stern Gang) were discriminated against. Labor Zionists had them turned in to the British to be jailed and hung during the notorious immoral Sezon. 

Who's in charge? 

The problem I'm referring to can be traced back to 1977 when Menachem Begin, heading Likud, got the most Knesset seats and was able to form a ruling coalition. Likud was a relatively new party which combined a number of Right wing and anti-socialist, pro-capitalism parties. 

Merger of	Gahal (Herut and Liberal Party), Free Centre, National List and Movement for Greater Israel

Actually for years, Menachem Begin had politically aligned with the Liberal Party making גח"ל GaCHaL, Gush Cherut Liberalism. The Liberal Party wasn't "liberal" as a "leftist" party. Its ideology was free market capitalism, totally against the socialist/communist policies of David Ben-Gurion and crew. Cleaning Israel of socialism was the only real change Menachem Begin's government accomplished. Davka, Netanyahu even served as Minister of Finance 2003–2005, at which he did a good job. If Menachem Begin had been as determined to make real change in Israeli bureaucracy as his Liberal colleagues, the country would be in better shape today, and there would be no need for Judicial Reform, removing the glass ceiling in the IDF, major change in what's taught as Israeli History in schools etc.

During all those years Netanyahu has had the power and responsibility to make these reforms, but he hasn't. That's what he's guilty of, only wanting the honors of being Prime Minister, but not doing the really hard critical part of the job to make Israel a better, stronger and more truly democratic country. Those who have been consistently losing elections, the Left, is still running the country.