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A new Channel 14 mandate poll conducted by Shlomo Filber shows stability in the right-wing bloc with 62 mandates and Likud leading confidently with 31 mandates, while Gadi Eisenkot's "Yashar" party receives 22 mandates. pic.twitter.com/LDpb1BPk25
— C14 News Israel • Headlines (@c14israel) August 4, 2026
Adam Scott Bellos, founder and CEO of The Israel Innovation Fund, penned an insightful article on the choices facing the Israeli public on election day. Though the current opposition parties might prefer to describe the article as inciteful, Bellos details the truth that Benjamin Netanyahu’s greatest political advantage is the weakness embodied in the parties and opponents forming his opposition, which have largely chosen to define themselves as being little more than “not Netanyahu” rather than offering a compelling governing vision on which the nation might actually find a legitimate election choice.
While Netanyahu bears political responsibility for having ruled during the failures surrounding October 7 and in no small part the conceptzia doctrine that allowed Hamas to become a major threat, Bellos explains that accountability should not erase his achievements in having transformed Israel into the powerful military, technological, economic, and diplomatic state as it stands today.
Indeed, Bellos goes on to argue that replacing Netanyahu should require a leader capable of preserving those achievements while addressing his failures. Such a leader would necessarily possess strategic clarity, diplomatic sophistication, international credibility, and the ability to effectively project Israeli interests on the international stage. Bellos pay particularly attention to the need for anyone hoping to replace the tenured Prime Minister to also reject the continued promotion of a two-state solution, explaining that October 7 demonstrated the impossible to ignore untenability of the dangers inherent in the establishment of Palestinian sovereignty, which would likewise create an unacceptable security threat to Israel. Indeed, The old Conceptzia has lost its political basis of support in Israel, that is, except among those who seem to want to replace Netanyahu in leading the country. Notably, none of this is lost on the voting electorate which will be choosing the next Israeli government on October 27, but it seems to be squarely ignored by the entire Never-Bibists thus far forming Netanyahu’s opposition.
Ultimately, Bellos argues that the opposition must offer a comprehensive alternative encompassing security, economics, diplomacy, and national confidence, as simply opposing Netanyahu is insufficient to either effectively replace Netanyahu or to gain the support of the Israeli public. Israel needs a genuine governing alternative to Netanyahu rather than the political vacuum which today forms the collection of “I’m Not Bibi”s which oppose him today. Hence, the best which the opposition might hope to do is to deny Israel the possibility of forming a ruling government, which was the same strategy that was pursued in the 4 elections which followed the fall of Netanyahu’s government in 2018. Is this not the basis for the wellspring of new, never to pass the minimum vote threshold, parties being formed right now?
Is it merely a coincidence that, if successful, this strategy of simply blocking Netanyahu from forming a new government will prevent Israel from acting as a meaningful partner in the second half of Trump’s second term, much as was the case in the second half of Trump’s first term?
Well, whatever happens, it will be certainly be interesting, as that is the true earmark of Israeli politics, with only the public having the final say on what the future might embody.
See Bellos’ article at the link below:
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-904671


“The Nili unit was named after the World War I-era Jewish underground spy organization Nili.”
“Israeli officials have also invoked the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics as a precedent for the retribution campaign against the October 7 terrorists, The Times of Israel reported last month, pointing to the years-long and partially successful Mossad-led effort to track down and eliminate anyone linked to the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes during the Games.” {Whom Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner defamed in “Munich” (2005)
{How fervently I wished for something like that after the unpunished lynchings of Yankel Rosenbaum, the ring leader of the mob that stabbed him to death was acquitted first of murder then of violating Yankel Rosenbaum’s civil right 10 years later by an all black Jury in the same venue where the pogrom took place, and Leon Klinghofer whose murderers were glorified in an opera that was shown at the Metropolitan Opera and whose ring leader was released by Italy only to be captured by the Americans during the Iraq War, which I will always fervently support, and who died in prison a year later. Our enemies and the world must be made to know that Jewish blood is not cheap.}
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-shin-bet-acknowledge-for-first-time-special-mission-to-hunt-down-and-kill-all-oct-7-terrorists/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunters_(2020_TV_series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHhQBjJb_k
“Today, the Aaronson house is a museum dedicate to the amazing accomplishment of the NILI spy ring. Among other documents and artifacts, it houses a letter from British Captain Baron William Ormsby-Gore acknowledging that Britain could not have won without the aid of the NILI spies.”
Television Matters.
Idea for a slogan: “I’m silly for NILI”
Melissa Steinberg Brodsky on FB:
* My comment: Why not?
The last time I spoke to an erstwhile Palestinianist friend who asked me, “Do you want the Palestinians to suffer?,” I replied, “yes, they were all in on it, yes.”
“The Palestinians are suffering!”
The glorious other half of the story:
Melissa Steinberg Brodsky on FB
This will work only if the Bibi/Haredi block do not have more than 60 seats and the Bennett/ Lieberman/Eisenkot block do have 61 or more seats. Iffy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_in_the_Desert
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* Those devils! (google Tasmanian Devils)
The most famous film you never heard of.
“Sword in the Desert premiere”
https://youtu.be/V4ISWxjsVug?is=n7ziD1AxQEAK-0f1
The full movie is on Youtube on a Russian site you have to join. I’ve seen it. Has a Chistian Zionist ending.
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has it for home viewing streaming but youhave to have the cable channel. I don’t have a TV anymore.
“sword in the desert dvd or vhs ”
” +1 The 1949 film Sword in the Desert starring Dana Andrews has never received an official major studio DVD or VHS release. It is only available as a custom-made DVD-R or digital transfer from specialty and archive retailers like Loving The Classics or independent sellers on platforms like eBay.Format AvailabilityOfficial Release: None (Out of print / never pressed by Universal).DVD-R / Custom Copy: Available via online classic movie archives and specialty bootleg/reproduction dealers.VHS: No official commercial VHS tape was widely released by the studio.If you are looking to purchase a copy or stream this movie, let me know if you prefer a physical DVD-R or a digital file/download so I can guide you on where to find it.”
Google AI Overview denies it was successfully suppressed just because it was shown in American theaters at the time.
My comment: “No comment” – Jimmy Cagney in Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond and Ferenc Molnar’s “One, Two, Three” (1961)
https://youtu.be/DD5AQluWoIM?is=8L7tJF2M4mRkUenG
August 6, 2026 — Economist Poll Tracker (Average of recent polls)
(Not a single poll, but a composite updated Aug 6.) Opposition campaigning mostly on two points October 7 occurred on Bibi’s watch and the Haredi draft dodging is endorsed by Bibi.
Likud 24
Yashar 22
Together 13
Democrats 10
Yisrael Beytenu 9
Otzma Yehudit 8
Shas 8
UTJ 8
Hadash–Ta’al 6
Religious Zionism 5
Ra’am 5
Composite shows no side has enough seats to form a coalition.