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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying in an unusual way to settle his son’s international conflicts.
A man in his 30s who spends a lot of time blasting social media: I think that’s a description that many young men in Israel could describe. But only one of them can count himself among the closest advisors to the Prime Minister of Israel: Jair Netanyahu. The 32-year-old did not achieve this through hard work on his political career, but by birth. Jair Netanyahu is Benjamin Netanyahu’s eldest son – and one of the most influential figures in Israeli politics. Now his father has sent him into exile in the USA. The only question is: for how long?
Israel: Is Jair Netanyahu the secret puller?
Recently, many are wondering whether it isn’t Jair Netanyahu who is pulling the strings in Israel’s day-to-day politics. “Anyone who knows Netanyahu knows he’s not fit to prime minister to be,” ex-Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman — a former Netanyahu ally — said in an interview with army radio three days ago. “Everyone understands that he is now just an intermediary for his son Jair.”
Until recently, Netanyahu Junior was constantly on a political mission on social media. There he shared conspiracy theories, fake news and hate speech – even against high officials of the state, such as the defense minister, Israel’s police chief, even the pilots of the Israeli Air Force. All of those he attacks have in common that they criticize the government plans practiced to disempower the judiciary. Everywhere he smells conspiracies against his father: in the left camp, abroad, even in his own party. Read here: Israel – Angry settlers march in front of Palestinian village
USA and Israel: Did Jair Netanyahu cause the tensions?
Some attribute the fact that the traditionally close relations between Washington and Jerusalem are now severely strained to Jair Netanyahu’s behavior. Most recently, he spread the misinformation on every channel available to him that the anti-government protests in Israel are controlled by the United States – and not by left-wing organizations, but by the US State Department itself. Netanyahu Junior even speculated about Washington’s cooperation with Israel’s archenemy Iran. Also interesting: Rocket Attacks on Israel – The Middle East Vicious Cycle
The United States reacted with little enthusiasm to this, which had been disseminated from the highest level Fake News. That was “absurd,” said the American ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides. To date, President Joe Biden has not officially invited the new old Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States.
Donald Trump and Jair Netanyahu: That’s what they have in common
Who behind Jair Netanyahu conspiracy theories only presumed craving for prestige, wrong. At first glance, young Netanyahu may seem like a schoolyard bully just waiting for someone to come around the corner to beat up. In truth, he fulfills an important political function for his father: Netanyahu junior throws smoke candles. Meanwhile, Netanyahu Senior can pull the strings unnoticed. Also read: Israel in chaos – Netanyahu’s dangerous loss of control
As soon as you think that Jair Netanyahu has already exceeded all the limits of good taste, you are surprised again. Netanyahu Jr. called the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who took to the streets against the controversial judicial reform “terrorists” and accused them of high treason – for this act Israel is threatened with the death penalty. Background: Heavy pressure – Prime Minister Netanyahu postpones judicial reform
In his rhetoric, Netanyahu Junior is reminiscent of Donald Trump. Also in his contempt for women. When left-wing MP Stav Shaffir publicly criticized Benjamin Netanyahu, son Jair lashed out and fired back: “You’re gross, inside and out,” he posted on Twitter. “Find an Arab man who won’t throw you out, move to a village, become a Muslim and leave us alone”. Shaffir sued Netanyahu for defamation and was right.
Connections to the AfD: Jair Netanyahu is on the right
Jair Netanyahu also maintains contacts to Germany – to the AfD. On May 6, 2020, AfD politician Joachim Kuhs posted a picture of Jair Netanyahu on Twitter. A quote from Israel’s most prominent offspring served as the caption. The “globalist EU” will hopefully be dead soon, it says. “Then Europe will be free, democratic and Christian again!” Jair Netanyahu did not distance himself from the fact that the AfD used him as a poster boy, on the contrary. He expressed his confidence in the AfD and asked the parliamentary group to stop German funding for Israeli human rights organizations.
Jair Netanyahu is politically further to the right than his father. It is said that he was the one who urged the Prime Minister to fire Defense Minister Joav Gallant. Benjamin Netanyahu now has it Termination taken back by the minister. And suddenly Jair Netanyahu’s Twitter channel became unusually quiet. Read here: Security in Israel – police expect new attacks
USA and Israel: This is how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to smooth things over
According to research by the Walla! news platform, a scandal broke out in the Netanyahu home about two weeks ago. The parents had Junior, who still lives with them, in their homes for a while USA sent and ordered him Twitter ban. The fact that their offspring is promoting a diplomatic crisis with Washington went too far for them.
It is considered unlikely that this will be the end of Jair Netanyahu’s role in pulling the strings. At the latest when his father from the first visit President Biden has returned and the transatlantic waves may have calmed down again, Netanyahu will likely return to his post as Israel’s First Twitter troll. Read here: Israeli military strikes targets in Syria again
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