A Letter from Naftali Bennett to Us All
Below is my translation of a Facebook Post former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett put up on September 14 and it is offered here with permission. The original post is beneath the English. Let me say something first: I know that many of my readers feel horribly betrayed by Bennett. I do not. But I can […]
Bennett Blinked First
At the end of his first year as Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett was faced with the second critical decision point of his political life – the first, of course, being whether or not to join Yair Lapid in forming the most unusual coalition this country has ever seen. That is a subject, however, for […]
Promises, promises, promises. But you promised!
Promises made, promises kept, promises set aside — and the betrayal experienced by voters who believed the promises. The anger directed against Naftali Bennett was because of the betrayal so many of his voters felt after he agreed to become part of a coalition that included the Arab party, Ra’am, and the anti-Zionist parties Meretz […]
Bennett and the Dream: A Letter to Bennett Detractors
There are promises and there are other promises. You point out, with rage, all the promises Bennett made that he is not keeping. These include electoral promises not to sit with Meretz or an Arab party in the government and not to cooperate with Lapid, and items on the Yamina Party platform, such as to […]
Caroline Glick: So Much Noise Over 7 Knesset Seats
Journalist Caroline Glick has made Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett a kind of villain in the coalition-forming crisis. It appears to me that she is following a script written by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even though she once ran on a political party list headed by Bennett. How is one to make sense of this? […]
Has Naftali Bennett Given up His Values for Corona’s Sake?
When I declare my hope that Naftali Bennett, leader of the Yamina Party, becomes the next prime minister of Israel, I face a lot of agreement, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a lot of faces grimacing in scorn for the man. Criticisms include the idea that he has given up his […]
Defence-Minister-for- not-much-longer, Naftali Bennett, Takes the Bull by the Horns
Defence Minister Bennett has strong ideas. And he has started openly talking his mind directly to the public. By doing this, he may prevent the civil unrest that is seething right now like a volcano getting ready to burst. In a press conference he held today, Bennett told us that just this morning he learned […]
Bassam Eid and Naftali Bennett Seem to Agree
Palestinian Arabs and The Jewish Home party may seem like strange bedfellows but sometimes life offers truths that fiction would never dare propose. The Arabs might actually not think too badly of the solution to the conflict that has been offered up for consideration by The Jewish Home party. In contrast, our own left-wing Jews […]