Current Gov’t Apparently Out To Prove Netanyahu Not Worst Possible Leader

“Bibi was horrible, don’t get me wrong, but this… this is differently horrible.”

Jerusalem, March 8 – Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, his cabinet ministers, and fellow Coalition members have evidently decided to demonstrate to the Israeli public that ousting the corrupt, manipulative, power-hungry previous premier was a mistake, and that his replacements at the helm of the state have somehow managed to make an even worse muck of things than even the widely-reviled Bibi.

Analysts at Israel’s major media outlets took a break today from covering for, instead of covering, the Bennett government, to voice their conclusion that the country’s political leadership’s actions and rhetoric only make sense with the assumption that each of their decisions stems from the goal of showing the public that in fact, Binyamin Netanyahu did not represent the absolute worst choice for prime minister in last year’s elections.

“We in the broadcast and print media can only do so much to carry water for our favored politicians,” acknowledged Atilla Somfalvi. “Our biases naturally led us to slant our reporting and analysis against Netanyahu, regardless of his opponent. We even supported Naftali Bennett, who until last year was a genocidal ethnic cleanser supremacist warmonger, but as soon as he emerged as a rival for Bibi – well, he must be good now! Anything to get rid of Netanyahu. But it, uh, hasn’t worked out quite as we’d hoped.”

“All the ways Bibi wasn’t a disaster, Bennett is a disaster and then some, plus a few of the ways that Bibi was also a disaster,” Ilana Dayan summed up. “Then there’s Yair  Golan proving his right-wing critics correct, and Yair Lapid making everyone apprehensive about what happens when it’s his turn at the helm when the rotation kicks in. Bibi was horrible, don’t get me wrong, but this… this is differently horrible.”

Dayan cited lawlessness in the Arab sector; a fumbling public health policy on COVID-19; diplomatic missteps; weakness in confronting European funding of widespread illegal Palestinian construction in areas designated as subject to Israeli control under the Oslo Accords; feeble policies on preventing and punishing Palestinian terrorism; discriminatory law enforcement against Jews in the Jewish State; and other developments showing that in fact, a non-Netanyahu government could do much worse than even the nightmare the pundits believed they were experiencing at the time.

“At least [Minister of the Interior Ayelet] Shaked’s unwillingness to undo the judicial-prosecutorial junta that de facto runs the place continues the one good thing from Netanyahu’s terms,” commented Nahum Barnea.

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