Why is everyone so sorry and their faces so sad?
Itzik Shmuli, a former member of the Social Protest, issued a statement:
My efforts to convince Fuad to try and lead a move to postpone the elections were in vain and he told me that he had a bigger task in mind right now: clearing his good name. I accepted this with regret - this is a man who gave his entire life to the country and I hope he manages to refute this whole story soon. I hope the Attorney General will give an answer regarding the timing of the inspection - four days before the elections; after all, Fuad has been living in his house for a year and could have inspected it much earlier and prevented the embarrassment for everyone. I have not yet decided who I will vote for in the elections, all options are on the table, including abstaining from voting.
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Shmuli, then, is threatening us that he will abstain from voting because of the terrible injustice done to Fuad. What injustice? That it was revealed that he received millions of shekels from a tycoon, who has businesses in Israel, to purchase a penthouse in Jaffa? This is crazy. I have already posted before. Shmuli himself spent a significant portion of his campaign funding on a tycoon named Avi Bitan, who funds colleges in Israel, and he and his associates donated something like 45,000 shekels to Shmuli's campaign. Ostensibly, Shmuli was supposed to stay away from an overly friendly relationship with Bitan. After all, Bitan needed his voice and influence when he was previously a member of the Council for Higher Education (as a student representative), but apparently his sensitivity to these issues was not at the top of Shmuli's agenda then, nor is it now.
Professor Daniel Shechtman, who succeeded in a sophisticated campaign to destroy the image of the Nobel Prize winner (at least among members of the Knesset, many of whom were shocked by the contact with him), said that he has a lot of empathy for Fuad. Why does he have empathy? When you catch someone suspected of accepting a bribe, what you feel is empathy? Retired judge Dalia Dorner, whom I greatly respect, reminded us that Fuad is presumed innocent. True, we didn't say he was guilty, but what about some moral statement by the president of the Press Council that a person who confirmed receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from an Israeli businessman (a loan...) shouldn't be the number 1 citizen?
Edelstein, have you become a hamitzer?
The Knesset Speaker hinted in an interview with "Meta" with Nadav Perry that perhaps one of the candidates is behind the exciting information that is being revealed about the candidates. Walla? Edelstein has apparently become a kind of scoundrel. If you know something, Mr. Speaker, maybe you'll tell us and stop with the hints? And in general, where did Edelstein's delusional initiative to postpone the elections come from? What is this supposed to give? Time to discover this invisible hand, which is issuing complaints against Silvan and transferring money to Fuad (if there is such an invisible hand, it is eligible for the Israel Prize)?
Even more amazing – Labor Chairman Yitzhak Bozhi Herzog supported this super strange initiative. The elections should be postponed, he told his faction, to allow us time to formulate an agreed-upon candidate for the opposition.
Tell me, did these people take something, or is there some conspiracy that we don't understand? Who's stopping you from forming an agreed-upon candidate in the remaining 48 hours? Sit down with Deri, Zehava Galon, Litzman, Gafni, Tibi and the rest and form a candidate for yourself. After all, Booji knows that there is no such thing as a movie where the opposition will form around a candidate now, so why delay?
I hear the fake and artificial sorrow over what happened to Fuad and ask myself – where is the decent man who will say, why did the Labor Party support Fuad in the first place? Who is it a surprise that his ties with wealthy people are not exactly clean? Where is the politician who will praise the Attorney General and the law enforcement authorities, who dared and anticipated this now, instead of criticizing them in the manner of Shmuli? In this context, it is impossible not to say a good word about Shelly Yachimovich, who bravely announced that she would not support Fuad, while her entire faction is silent in embarrassment.
Dalia Itzik always uses closed-door conversations to encourage people to come out against the corruption of others. She herself has never been caught making such a statement against fellow politicians. What's the matter, are you crazy, they are her friends, she can't do this to them. She is content to encourage others to do it. Well, at least explain how she got the apartment in "Gan Ha'ir", whether she received a discount there and whether Eldad Yaniv's claim that she also has a third apartment in Jerusalem is true, because to the best of my memory, she has been living on a public salary for the past decades.
