- 14 May 2021 03:35
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Or you could call Hamas the Spoiler. I would even call Hamas The Joker in Israeli politics. Hamas has no vote in the Knesset, yet has many a time played the Kingmaker, or Spoiler if you will in Israeli politics.
Go ask Shimon Peres. If he is still alive. In 1996 Shimon Peres had a double digit lead heading to elections. That is until the Joker stepped in. Hamas unleashed a hurricane of suicide bombers on Israel, and by the time the smoke cleared Peres' big lead had disappeared and Bibi was king. One has to be forgiven for observing that the then young Bibi owed Hamas a debt of gratitude. Even if I must add that Bibi was, and is a spoil sport and never showed any gratitude to Hamas.
The Spoiler appeared to have stepped into the fray again. Not with suicide bombers as in 1996. This time with canon fire. Or is it rockets? A rain of rockets. Hundreds of them. That killed any hopes a coalition headed by one Lapid and Naftali Bennet of outsting King Bibi.
Israel has been having a devil of time forming a stable government in the last two years. The hard pressed Israelis have been forced to head to the polls like three or four times in elections that failed to break the deadlock. King Bibi had first shot at it and failed after a month. Then Lapid was offered the oppurtunity.
It was a long shot for Lapid for starters. He had to break bread with one rightwing ruffian called Naftali Bennet. Even that would not have been enough. More unpalatable characters had to be wood in like the ex Moldova Soviet Socialist Republic emigre Avigdor Lieberman. And even that would not have crossed the 61 Knesset seat bar. It still needed the blessings of an even more unpalatable proposition: that of one Arabic MK Mansour Abbas! Israeli Jews, even in the best of times, avoid coalitions that include Arab Parties. So even if Lapid had successfully wooed Mansour Abbas, it would have still been an extremely shaky coalition.
That is when Hamas weighed in.
With rockets raining down on Israel, the rightwing ruffian Naftali Bennet bolted the proposed coalition with Lapid. That by itself killed off any hopes of a Lapid coalition. And that is not all. The Arab Mansour Abbas cannot appear to be part of a governing Israeli coalition at the same time the streets of Israel are wracked by Jewish vs Palestinian street violence. That would sink him in the polls fast in with his Arab constituents. Mansour Abbas may not quite like rockets from Gaza. See, those rockets hit Jew and Arab as well. But he cannot appear to be breaking bread with zionists at the sametime Hamas is getting hammered by Israeli jets.
Bottomline, Bibi is back in the game. His stint as PM is extended thanks to Hamas. Another debt of gratitude owed to Hamas by Bibi.
That definitely makes of Hamas the Joker in Israeli politics
Go ask Shimon Peres. If he is still alive. In 1996 Shimon Peres had a double digit lead heading to elections. That is until the Joker stepped in. Hamas unleashed a hurricane of suicide bombers on Israel, and by the time the smoke cleared Peres' big lead had disappeared and Bibi was king. One has to be forgiven for observing that the then young Bibi owed Hamas a debt of gratitude. Even if I must add that Bibi was, and is a spoil sport and never showed any gratitude to Hamas.
The Spoiler appeared to have stepped into the fray again. Not with suicide bombers as in 1996. This time with canon fire. Or is it rockets? A rain of rockets. Hundreds of them. That killed any hopes a coalition headed by one Lapid and Naftali Bennet of outsting King Bibi.
Israel has been having a devil of time forming a stable government in the last two years. The hard pressed Israelis have been forced to head to the polls like three or four times in elections that failed to break the deadlock. King Bibi had first shot at it and failed after a month. Then Lapid was offered the oppurtunity.
It was a long shot for Lapid for starters. He had to break bread with one rightwing ruffian called Naftali Bennet. Even that would not have been enough. More unpalatable characters had to be wood in like the ex Moldova Soviet Socialist Republic emigre Avigdor Lieberman. And even that would not have crossed the 61 Knesset seat bar. It still needed the blessings of an even more unpalatable proposition: that of one Arabic MK Mansour Abbas! Israeli Jews, even in the best of times, avoid coalitions that include Arab Parties. So even if Lapid had successfully wooed Mansour Abbas, it would have still been an extremely shaky coalition.
That is when Hamas weighed in.
With rockets raining down on Israel, the rightwing ruffian Naftali Bennet bolted the proposed coalition with Lapid. That by itself killed off any hopes of a Lapid coalition. And that is not all. The Arab Mansour Abbas cannot appear to be part of a governing Israeli coalition at the same time the streets of Israel are wracked by Jewish vs Palestinian street violence. That would sink him in the polls fast in with his Arab constituents. Mansour Abbas may not quite like rockets from Gaza. See, those rockets hit Jew and Arab as well. But he cannot appear to be breaking bread with zionists at the sametime Hamas is getting hammered by Israeli jets.
Bottomline, Bibi is back in the game. His stint as PM is extended thanks to Hamas. Another debt of gratitude owed to Hamas by Bibi.
That definitely makes of Hamas the Joker in Israeli politics
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