Shimon Riklin
@riklin10 · Israeli journalists — political, diplomatic, legal
Shimon Riklin is a Channel 14 commentator and a combative voice of the pro-Netanyahu media camp.
Netanyahu's armor. Haim Katz. Wants to cancel the appointment of Yehuda Eliyahu. Who finally started making a change in the Israel Land Authority in the Negev and Galilee. Because of Katz's wheeling and dealing, who has nothing to do with the right. What a disgusting thing. Where will we lead this shame, Mr. Prime Minister? Is this the right, Mr. Prime Minister?
Translated from HebrewOkay, it’s not only that there was no conversation. Yishai Friedman revealed that Shlomi Eldar’s publications are part of an election campaign carried out by an association identified with the Democrats Party. And all the panicked media spewed this nonsense at us without telling the truth. What a pathetic level
Translated from HebrewNow that it has been proven that there was no conversation with the Emirates. The central question returns to the table with even greater force: Why didn’t Ronen Bar and the vanished Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, update the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister, the Gaza Division, the Nova party, and the soldiers who were sleeping on the border? Why did theyyy stay silent?!
Translated from HebrewAnother blood libel by the left has sunk into the sea: Netanyahu’s response to the report about the warning call he received from the United Arab Emirates before 7.10. "The prime minister instructed his lawyers to file a libel suit against the left-wing newspaper Haaretz, Shlomi Eldar, and additional parties who fabricated a false libel against the prime minister that never existed, contrary to the claim. From the beginning of September until October 7, there was no call whatsoever between the prime minister and the president of the United Arab Emirates. The Prime Minister’s Office, the National Security Council, and the military secretariat carefully examined the prime minister’s call log for these days—and found no trace of it whatsoever. Diplomatic calls between the prime minister and the president of the Emirates take place exclusively at the Prime Minister’s Office through the Emirati representative who comes to the office with a special encrypted device. All these calls are documented."
Translated from HebrewThe first stage was to ask Herzi Halevi, Ronen Bar and Haliva to disappear. Not to say a word. This had already happened several months ago. The second stage was to start making up stories that Netanyahu had been warned and that he was the one who went to sleep and did not tell anyone.. The third stage, which is beginning (again) now, is that security officials warned Netanyahu but he ignored them. But it is all a lie. On the contrary. An Egyptian state official was in contact with Ronen Bar. Bar also met with him several times. There was abundant intelligence. There were warnings. But those responsible were busy backing Shikma Bressler's refusal "and you will have no army". Therefore even when the SIM cards lit up and when it became clear that the Nukhba were assembling, Ronen Bar and his fellow rebels did not update anyone. And did nothing. Not only did they fail to update anyone. An order was given to IDF soldiers not to approach the fence in Gaza.. To this day no one knows what Herzi Halevi did on 7/10 and when he emerged from the shock he was in. Did you know that he did not exchange a single word with the commander of the Gaza Division on 7/10? These people played with our lives to advance this bizarre political agenda. And we all paid the price. This tweet was supposed to end here. But there is an asterisk. If everything had been negligence, carelessness and complacency. After the terrible blow we suffered, they would have come to their senses and changed their ways. But even after 7.10 they continued the revolt. They continued the cover-up. And they treated violently anyone who thought differently from them, and the things will still be told and investigated. There was no innocence here
Translated from HebrewAfter “Netanyahu received a warning about the attack,” expect to get the continuation: “Why Netanyahu encouraged refusal to serve,” and just before the election I bet we’ll see a “dramatic exposé” by R. Berggggman saying that Netanyahu knew what time the attack would begin on the morning of Simchat Torah and kept the information to himself. The spectacular inversion of reality that the left carries out when it attributes to its political rival everything it did, down to the last detail, shows just how panicked they are and how afraid they are of the reckoning the people will hand them for the disgraceful conduct that included: Burning Ayalon. Blocking traffic in the country. Dismantling the army. Harassing religious people. Taking the money abroad. The desire to surrender. See you when they land in reality on 27/10.
Translated from HebrewJust before the lists close, one thing is clear: the left offers nothing. Not a single alternative in any field to the government it has so reviled in recent years. Have you heard a new proposal in education? In the economy? In the area of war? In the political sphere? One thing??? Nothing at all. It is even more astonishing because they not only offer no different way. They disguise themselves as the government they have fought so fiercely against. Look at Eisenkot, who at every stage of the war proposed withdrawing and freezing the situation, and now speaks of victory. And suddenly he is speaking against a Palestinian state too. The man is ready for Purim. A little less so for the elections, because the voter will always prefer the original on the right to the costume. How did we get to this situation, where the left offers nothing? Except, of course, “Anyone but Bibi”? Is it because the court replaced the opposition in Israel? Is it because the left all over the world is directionless because of waves of immigration and extremely excessive wokeness? Is it because they have become so detached from Judaism? Is it because their media went so overboard with “the coup government” and all this stupidity that they completely lost their direction? I do not know. What I do know with a high degree of certainty is that the right is going to win. Even with Winter’s Trojan horse and his friends. Because whoever has no path. No faith. And no vision. cannot win
Translated from HebrewAbraham Hasson: “After deliberation, Winter and the Amcha Yisrael party decided to submit their list to the Knesset today. The implication: he is closing off the option of alliances.” A party that opposes alliances is not Amcha Yisrael. It is an anti-Israel party. They are a bunch of delusional people with inflated egos and out of touch with reality.
Translated from HebrewYesh Atid is collapsing. The public has grown fed up with it, with its ideas and its violence. How do they present this collapse? “A generational change.” As if everything is fine and they are merely refreshing the ranks. A generational change in a party founded a little over a decade ago. And now it hopes to cross the electoral threshold with Bennett, who is begging Eisenkot to include them. (Is Ari Shavit’s impassioned call for a combination of Eisenkot and Bennett/ Lapid related to the fact that he wrote a book about Bennett?) We are in the month of Elul, approaching the Tishrei holidays. And the concept of soul-searching has still not reached the realms of Yesh Atid and Yair Lapid. And that is just another reason why they are disappearing from our lives. The question of whether they are knowingly lying or truly believe the nonsense they spout will continue to hover over the dust raised by their disappearance
Translated from HebrewIs Ofer Winter’s irresponsible ego trip continuing?
Translated from HebrewWhat is going on here? Moshe Feiglin: The Knesset does not interest me! I have already been there. I really do not feel like it… If I am not given what I will demand, I will sit in the opposition. I need to be the next defense minister! Members of Winter's party declared that Ofer Winter is the one who should be defense minister in the next government. (Let us set aside for a moment the question of why the ostensibly right-wing Winter concluded that his first interview would be specifically on News 12.) How can it be that two people whom I consider principled and serious display such delusions of grandeur? After all, on their own they do not pass the electoral threshold. Are they influenced by Bennett? Have they lost touch with humility? Very disappointing
Translated from HebrewThe left is making two strategic mistakes, beyond their moral dimension: 1. Celebrating Segalovitz’s joining forces with the Muslim Brotherhood and thinking this will bring peace between Jews and Arabs. One should read how people I was sure were normal justify a Jew’s alliance that places him in the position of a protected person under Hasan al-Banna. Complete madness accompanied by feigned innocent eye-rolling. But the people of Israel are looking at this spectacle in astonishment, disgust, fear, and contempt. The left-wing bloc will pay for selling all its Zionist principles in the coming election 2. The attempt to blame Netanyahu for the 7/10 massacre. For this purpose, Herzi Halevi, Ronen Bar, and Haliva were removed from every public platform. They have not disappeared. They were merely asked to remain silent so that we would all forget what they and their friends from Kaplan did before 7/10. So that the media’s propaganda and mind-engineering machine can bring “new revelations” showing that Netanyahu was actually sleeping in the Gaza-envelope area and knew everything.. Anyone who thinks it is possible to distinguish between the left’s total failure in its strategy toward the outside world and its strategy toward Israel internally is very wrong. In both cases, desire and dream prevail over reality. Dear left. Prepare for the landing on the night of 27/10
Translated from HebrewEisenkot is a defeatist. There is no dispute about that. But ahead of the elections he wants to play the aggressor, so he made up a story that turned out to be false. A person cries out what he lacks, sings Meir Ariel. And therefore he called his party Yashar.. but in depth. Why is he ashamed that he is a defeatist? Why is he disguising himself? Why doesn't he change his mind? But no. He prefers to lie
Translated from HebrewI was driving, so I didn’t see it then. Is Winter continuing his political suicide mission?
Translated from HebrewI just want to say. The attack by Eisenkot, Golan, Bennett and Liberman on Sara Netanyahu. Shows that they are not men. Deal with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not with the woman Golan was part of besieging. Not every statement needs to be sued over, and not every quote needs to be fought over. Strong against women. Weak against Arabs
Translated from HebrewWho would have believed that after the greatest massacre since the Holocaust committed by Muslims against Jews, a Jew would join the Muslim Brotherhood movement and try to legitimize them in the name of “bringing hearts closer.” The boycott of Likud, Mizrahim, and religious Jews continues. But joining the Muslim Brotherhood is bringing hearts closer.. In the month of Selichot. Through this madness, two bright spots can also be seen: 1. The masks are falling, and the suicidal post-Zionist trend of parts of the Israeli left is being exposed for all to see. 2. Instead of inserting an agent of Ra’am into the Israeli security cabinet, the entire left will be defeated in the upcoming elections after voters internalize what is at stake and the magnitude of the danger to the State of Israel and its existence. (Except for a few knitted sycophants on the margins of the camp who will continue to do everything to curry favor with the left and will therefore continue to say “Haredim”)
Translated from HebrewThe silence of the left. Which defines itself as Zionist. Over the first Jew joining the Muslim Brotherhood’s party. It is concerning and astonishing.
Translated from HebrewAfter Netanyahu accused Winter yesterday of endangering the right. Winter answered him that the one endangering the right is Netanyahu and the actions he took. I ask again: Where does Winter get the audacity to think he is the Messiah and hand out grades to everyone? What has he done, founded, or built that he preaches to the prime minister and those below him like this? People ask me what I have against Winter. The truth is that I have nothing against him personally. More than that. In 2017, Drucker sued Segal and me for libel because we accused him on Galatz of trying, by unethical means, to bring down Winter and prevent his appointment as commander of the Givati Brigade. I also told yesterday on my program how Segal and I tried to persuade Prime Minister Netanyahu to appoint Winter as his military secretary because of Eisenkot’s unjust persecution of him. In other words, the fact that Winter was discriminated against in the army and was not promoted there says nothing about his political abilities or his right to lecture those who came before him and did much more than he did, such as Netanyahu and Smotrich. Mr. Winter should show a little humility. (And not think he is above everyone.) Mr. Winter should show a little honesty. (And perhaps we will finally understand whom he really supports.) Mr. Winter should show a little precision. (And not string us along with stories.) And remember what Gideon said to the angel of the Lord who asked him to save Israel: “Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” Then perhaps later he will be worthy
Translated from HebrewHello Bezalel Smotrich. You walked hand in hand with Prime Minister Netanyahu and knew how to restrain yourself and wait in order to achieve fantastic goals that no one believed could be achieved in settlement and at the Finance Ministry. You changed the map of the country and excelled as finance minister during wartime. Your party colleagues came to work, invest and change, and together you succeeded in bringing about tremendous achievements. Unlike Winter, whom no one heard during the days of refusal and during the struggle for judicial reform. You were there all along. Until this moment I have not understood what Winter proposes or what he has done on the civilian-political level besides talk. You have a strong and stable political base, which Winter does not have; his is a party of mood, but not of people who come to work. Therefore, with all due respect for the responsibility you have shown and for speaking about the timing of mergers—and that is understandable. The one who really needs to show responsibility here is Winter, the new guest and Lieberman’s friend. The main pressure to unite should be on him, not you. The Torah emphasizes humility as the most important trait of all, and certainly for a leader. Winter lacks it, excessively. You will continue on your righteous, transformative and creative path, and do not let background noise cause you to lose your confidence. Be strong and courageous! Go in this strength of yours and save Israel
Translated from HebrewEisenkot tells Dani Zaken he opposes construction between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim. “Not now. This is a mistake that comes at an international cost to us.” We already knew that Eisenkot always gives in and is a defeatist. That he is such a wimp and afraid of his own shadow is new.
Translated from HebrewHas the censorship already called Uri Misgav in for questioning? Ronen Bergman? Has it ever called anyone from the left at all?? Or does censorship in Israel work only when it comes to the right on trivial matters and completely ignore life-endangering offenses when it comes to people from the left over the years. Is there one institution in Israel that does not adopt a double standard ?? Probably not. And we will change that too.
Translated from HebrewDid Winter commit tonight that he would recommend Netanyahu, the leader of the right-wing bloc, to form a government after the elections?
Translated from HebrewWhat does the terrible uproar over Tzvi Sukkot, who dared to try to smash a monument to murderous terrorists, teach us? That we are returning to the days before 7/10. What does the silence regarding the Chief of Staff’s response that the IDF is not prepared for an escalation in Judea and Samaria teach us? That Israel’s military-security elite still sees Hamas terrorists and Abu Mazen in Judea and Samaria as partners for peace. What do I learn from this? That the Left still does not distinguish between the essential and the trivial and does not distinguish between a friend and an enemy.
Translated from HebrewEvery historian, archaeologist, or journalist knows that it is impossible to understand an event without its historical context. What happened before, during, and after that event. Let us apply this rule to the Altalena affair, and perhaps then we will understand more about what really happened. And perhaps then the emotional burden that the right has carried since the sinking of the ship will be justified. What happened before: Well, the prominent and tragic historical event in the Yishuv before the Altalena affair was the Saison. At the end of 1944 and during 1945, the Haganah (the left) turned over hundreds of Irgun members (the right) to the British; at times the Haganah also tortured Irgun fighters, and there were murders as well. The State of Israel and the IDF were established about a month before the sinking of the ship. Therefore, the attempt to reduce the cruel sinking and killing of the Irgun fighters aboard it to a dispute over authority is incorrect, because the sinking of the ship was a direct continuation of the boycotting, vengeful, and violent treatment by the left, led by Ben-Gurion, of right-wing members, which included, beyond handing them over, confiscation, preventing them from working, and preventing immigration visas to the Land of Israel. What happened during the Altalena affair: Israeli Air Force pilots refused to bomb the ship. They did not think a ship carrying important weapons for the War of Independence should be bombed because of a dispute over how to divide them. They expected Ben-Gurion to show responsibility and not hatred toward his political rival. It is astonishing that this was apparently the first refusal by the Air Force, and perhaps in the IDF altogether. When Ben-Gurion saw that the pilots were refusing, he turned to the foreign pilots who had volunteered to help Israel, perhaps they would agree to bomb the ship. They refused too. Luckily they did not read the Israeli media today. The person who agreed to command the fire on the Altalena from the shore was Yitzhak Rabin, who wrote the following in his book Service Notebook: “I am informed that it has been decided to shell the ship with a cannon. The first shell fell not far from the ship. The second or third hit…. What an accurate hit… This was shelling intended to hit, and not to frighten the people on the ship, as they tried to explain many years after the deed. Without destroying the ship, this affair would not have ended. The ship is burning; sounds of ammunition exploding are coming from it. People are jumping from its deck into the sea. The Irgun men on shore are seized by hysteria, screaming ‘Begin on the ship, Begin on the ship, save Begin.’ The Palmach men believed.. An extraordinarily intense barrage from all the weapons was opened toward the ship. The deposits of hatred held by the Palmach and Haganah men toward the organizations and their leader found expression in the intensity of the fire.” Later Rabin testified: “We hit the people who were on deck and hit the people who jumped into the water and swam to shore.” It should be noted that the ship was already sinking, and nevertheless the left opened murderous fire on its helpless people in the name of the accumulated hatred against the right. What was the reason for this hatred of the left toward the right? (Which had never harmed left-wing people or done them damage.) What happened afterward: Ben-Gurion understood that he had committed a crime and wanted to conceal it. Therefore, he ordered the navy to move the ship that had sunk near the shore deep into the open sea, in an attempt to make the disgraceful act be forgotten. At the same time, right-wing members asked to erect a monument on the shore near the place where the Altalena was shelled. They were refused. In their distress, they erected a temporary monument near the place where Yitzhak Rabin would be murdered. Israeli history, like all history, is winding, with many facts and different contexts. Do not allow anyone to cut a piece out of it to justify his thesis. Always try to see the fullest picture possible. In our case it is clear that the left was violent toward the right for years before and after the establishment of the state, only because it wanted to be in power and only because it wanted to continue serving the British. I will elaborate on all this in my next film, which I have begun working on: Who Murdered Kastner
Translated from HebrewSorry. The right is rightly claiming that senior state officials are in danger after what Israel has done throughout the Middle East. It cannot oppose providing security for Eisenkot. I don't understand what the question is at all. He is a leading candidate in this election, and therefore he needs to be protected. Let's focus on substantive arguments, not trivialities.
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