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At a later meeting, talking thru cigarette smoke in a noisy hotel bar, he knockd on the table between us:“This is poetry. Language is here –in the street, in the mud, in the shop, in the kitchen, in the mkt, the discussions, in everyday life. And you can make poetry out of this.”

BREAKING: Israel has informed the United States it has intelligence that Iran is 'considering the use of chemical weapons against its adversaries', according to New York Times report.

It is now clear that Eisenkot will be the first to be asked to form a government. When he goes to the President tomorrow, he will have more recommendations than Netanyahu, and probably many more. Here are the numbers as we know them now. Eisenkot has the four Change Bloc parties, which together hold 48 Knesset seats. Netanyahu has only four of the five parties that ran with him, for 46 seats as UTJ has declared itself agnostic. Ra’am and the Joint List are not counted in either total, but they will clearly do whatever Eisenkot asks of them, whether that means recommending him or staying on the sidelines. So what does Eisenkot do with the mandate? He will have six weeks from tomorrow, and essentially two options: a unity government with Netanyahu, or a government that includes the Haredim. He may be using the Haredi option as leverage against Netanyahu, or it may be a real option. Either way, here is what is on the table. United Torah Judaism wants a draft law that is better, by its own standards, than the Bismuth bill, which critics nicknamed the draft-evasion law. It wants a law with no sanctions and no enlistment targets. As it happens, a solution like that already exists, and the man who proposed it is Avigdor Liberman. In 2017, as defense minister and a close friend of the Haredim, he offered them such a law. To this day they regret that they followed the most extreme voice among them and said no. Now Eisenkot needs to know whether Liberman and Bennett are truly with him, or whether they will push him off a cliff to score points in the next election. And nobody knows whether such a law would survive the High Court.

הדבר החשוב בהצהרה של טראמפ הוא העיתוי. ביום הכי חשוב של הכהונה השניה שלו, יום בחירות האמצע לקונגרס, דווקא ביום הזה חשוב לו להגיד: "אני מפסיק את הסיוע לישראל. לא נעביר להם יותר כסף". כלומר ,טראמפ הגיע למסקנה שכדי לנצח בבחירות היום, הוא חייב להרחיק את המפלגה שלו ממדינת ישראל. זו המורשת האמיתית של בנימין נתניהו: השמדת ערך מטורפת של מעמד ישראל בדעת הקהל האמריקאית. הלוזר המוחלט.