Ayoon Wa Azan (A National Unity Government Has Always Foreran a War)

On the third of March this year, Shaul Mofaz, the leader of Kadima after that date, said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a liar, and that he would never hold any agreement with him. In a rowdy session at the Knesset, he said: “Listen up: I will not join Bibi's government. Not today, not tomorrow and not after I head Kadima on March 28. This is a bad and failed government and Kadima under my leadership will replace it in the next elections. Is that clear enough?” It is very clear, and it is also my view which I continue to espouse, unlike Mofaz. To be sure, Mofaz, at two-thirty in the morning of Tuesday, May the 8th, declared that he agreed with Netanyahu to form a national unity government in which Mofaz, the leader of Kadima, would serve as Deputy Prime Minister without any portfolios for his party. Thus, the government led by Netanyahu now has a majority of 94 seats out of 120 in the Knesset, an unprecedented majority in the history of Israeli governments. Many Arab and foreign commentators said that Netanyahu got the best possible deal to lead a war government, since every ‘national unity’ government in Israel had culminated with a war, as was the case in 1967. This is my opinion too. In recent days, I went back to the Israeli press and found that Iran had been absent from mention, with the exception of the attack railed by the Defense Minister Ehud Barak against the former head of the Shen Bet, Yuval Diskin, and former Mossad head Meir Dagan, for their stances in opposition to a war on Iran. The absence of news on Iran in the media means that it is being discussed extensively in the corridors of power and in secret meetings. Since my opinion on the Israeli war criminals is well documented, I chose some views expressed by Israeli politicians concerning one another. “This is small, disgusting, nauseating politics” the leader of the left-wing Meretz party Zehava Gal-On said about the agreement. Labor Party Chairwoman Shelly Yacimovich, meanwhile, was quoted as saying, “This is a pact of cowards and the most contemptible and preposterous zigzag in Israel’s political history… the Labor Party has been given a rare and important opportunity to lead the opposition, and it will do so energetically and faithfully.” Mofaz took the oath of office in the Knesset on May 7, becoming the Deputy Prime Minister. In reaction, Binyamin Ben-Elizer said that he has “sold his soul to the devil”. Haim Ramon, one of the founders of Kadima and a supporter of the former party leader Tzipi Livni, resigned from Kadima and said that he is no longer a centrist. Many others followed suit. The commentator Nahum Barnea explained in Yedioth Ahronoth how the new alliance would benefit Netanyahu in his domestic policies, and also in saving Mofaz from political death. He warned against the dismantlement of the opposition in the Knesset and said: “Do not mourn Netanyahu’s morals or Mofaz’s credibility. Mourn democracy”. Other commentators said that Netanyahu has succeeded in dismantling, or destroying Kadima, and some warned against a dictatorship by the majority. The above overlaps with some of my views on Netanyahu and the other war criminals in the fascist government of Israel. Since the Israelis are saying it, then it must be true, thereby settling any potential debate over it. I also read in their papers that Netanyahu and Mofaz agreed on the issue of Iran before even agreeing on the shape of their government. Iran is then behind the political coup in Israel. The absence of the latter from the news - which I mentioned in the beginning - is one indication. The deal itself was cooked at night, which is another indication, because the Israeli press itself was insisting on May 6 that the early elections< threatened by the Prime Minister< would be held on September 4, and that Netanyahu would set the date for the elections during Likud’s conference on that day, i.e. May 6. Yet in less than 24 hours, the surprise announcement had come. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing for war on Iran. Every ‘national unity’ government in Israel foreran a war. I have another proof which I believe is conclusive: On May 3, Israel mobilized six reserve battalions and announced that it would mobilize 16 more, a security measure “due to potential problems in the Sinai desert and the volatile situation in Syria”. Twenty-two battalions for potential problems in the Sinai desert and Syria? I am a simpleton and I am naïve, but not to this degree.