The latest sham crisis in the relationship between Benjamin Netanyahu and Naftali Bennett ("We'll manage without him, so he won't threaten") has entered third gear on the eve of the holiday. If it weren't for Seder night and the days of Hol HaMoed, we would be grinding the same issue again this week: the murky relationship between the two personalities.
Bennett threatens to resign, Netanyahu is indifferent, settlements will be evacuated, settlements will not be evacuated, no one will tell us to stop building in Jerusalem, loss of values, lack of conscience, Jerusalem is the center of our lives, Netanyahu demands an apology, Bennett does not apologize, but if anyone is hurt, it was not the intention. And so on.
We already watched this play at the beginning of the year. In January, accompanied by the desert backdrop of Masada, Bennett backed down a bit, issued a mock apology, and the Israeli government returned to its usual behavior: playing it off as if it wanted peace, holding the process in the air to say there was a process.
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There is no talk of direct negotiations with the Palestinians, the remnants of negotiations with the Americans (as if Israel and the US should negotiate on the issue of peace) hang in the air and will dissipate in another minute, and all that remains is to observe a strange type of negotiation between Netanyahu and Bennett.
Who will break first? Who will say this time that the other one caused the crisis. Bennett? Netanyahu?
It's sad to admit, but this is the essence of the lack of a peace process in Israel. Netanyahu and Bennett bicker and oppose each other. Neither of them wants a Palestinian state, and each wants to be the one who made no progress in the peace process.
The real reason for the murky relationship between Netanyahu and Bennett is a well-kept secret. They (Bennett and Shaked) don't reveal it. In the media bunker around Netanyahu, nothing is revealed. And so, since the negotiations between Netanyahu and Bennett are the essence of the peace process these days (meaning, it's no longer something really interesting), we are doomed to be indifferent to this as well.
Until the next round: These two will continue their ups and downs, the peace process will shrink to worthlessness, more than it already is, and only Bennett will be left with hope in his hand: Will the fact that he made an effort and toiled to be the most blunt, boisterous, and extreme minister in the 33rd Israeli government earn him additional points for the next round?
• Tal Schneider is the owner of the political blog - Helog
