Bullies and Crybabies

Nahum Barnea argues in his column that the culture of political bullying, which Netanyahu copied from Trump, is in decline. He criticizes Netanyahu's intimidation video and notes a positive change in the media following racist statements by Ayelet Hasson and Eyal Berkovic.

Nahum Barnea, in a column for Yedioth Ahronoth, argues that the culture of political bullying, which Benjamin Netanyahu copied from Donald Trump, is in decline. Barnea notes that Trump's defeat in the US elections proves that bullying cannot replace policy, and that Israel lives under a bullying political culture that includes Ben Gvir, Smotrich, Rothman, and Levin. He criticizes Netanyahu's intimidation video, in which he warned of 'fire and flames' in Israel's streets if a government is formed without him, and analyzes the failed connection between riots in Paris and Brussels and the elections in Israel. Barnea notes a positive change in the media, with Ayelet Hasson and Eyal Berkovic becoming entangled following racist statements against Israeli Arabs.