It would shore up global opposition to Bibi in ways they couldn’t when constrained by a pro-Israel Congress.
Tel Aviv, November 14 – Domestic opponents of Israel’s incumbent prime minister, frustrated at prolonged failure to oust him from power once and for all, have decided to bring in allied “big guns” with much greater, global, influence at their disposal to head the effort: the outgoing President and Vice President of the United States, according to a spokesman for the protest movement today.
Mer Sennery, who nominally heads a group protesting on behalf of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, but who has made plain that the issue serves merely as a wedge to make his cause seem more popular that in is, disclosed yesterday that the various informal and formal organizations involved in the weekly demonstrations against Binyamin Netanyahu have extended an invitation to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to helm the movement, now that the two will face unemployment after January 10 of next year.
“It would a coup, if you will if we can attract them to us,” gushed Sennery. “The antipathy they have for Bibi has never been a secret. He kept frustrating their efforts to direct the fighting in Gaza, then in Lebanon, and he kept resisting their pressure to agree to various hostage-release proposals. Biden and Harris have demonstrated they fundamentally agree with our core position, which is that bringing about Netanyahu’s downfall is the top priority. For them, it’s regional or global; for us, it’s existential.”
Commentators differ on the prospects of the offer. “It’s certainly a possibility,” allowed journalist Nahum Barnea. “I’d love to see it. It would shore up global opposition to Bibi in ways that Biden and Harris couldn’t do when they were constrained by the political considerations domestically and a Congress that’s generally been more pro-Israel than the White House.”
Others remain skeptical. “You have to think there are more prestigious, not to mention lucrative, options on the table for each of them,” offered commentator Ben Caspit. “I’m as anti-Bibi as the next guy, but we have to be realistic. It’s presumptuous, and in many ways overstepping, to imply that our cause is what they should make their post-presidency lives about. Arrogance like that is what cost them a second term to begin with; ‘celebrity’ endorsements, which is what this would be, did nothing to boost Harris’s candidacy, and may even have hurt them with ordinary voters. We may not like it, but you still have to attract votes to gain power in a democracy, which many of this movement’s members and allies appear to have forgotten, even as we all clamor that Bibi is a threat to democracy. He’s such a threat that the voters keep choosing him.”
Caspit suggested that the movement make the offer to someone better suited to the role and more likely to accept, such as Ali Khamenei.
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