Netanyahu poses merger on the right as Ben-Gvir concerned about weakening Otzma Yehudit

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On Wednesday, Winter said his party belongs to the right-wing bloc and would support only Netanyahu as prime minister.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he would personally try to unite Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir ahead of Israel’s elections, prompting Ben-Gvir to accuse him of seeking to weaken Otzma Yehudit and reveal what he described as their private discussions over right-wing electoral alliances.

Netanyahu warned that separate runs by right-wing parties could cost the bloc votes if parties fail to cross the electoral threshold, pointing to the 1992 election as a precedent.

“Every time we went together—we won. Every time we went separately—we lost. I understand that there are personal grievances between them; they need to overcome them,” Netanyahu said.

“I will invite them in the coming days. We will make a supreme effort to unite them, and that is what the public expects from them—and rightly so.”

Smotrich also called for “A time for unity and responsibility in the national camp.”

Ben-Gvir rejected a renewed alliance between Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism, arguing that such a merger would instead cost the right 3–4 seats by discouraging voters from participating.

“You know the data and the in-depth studies just as well as I do. We spoke several times in recent weeks. According to all the polls, a merger between me and Smotrich would drive away 3–4 seats’ worth of voters who would not come out to vote, and the right-wing government would fall!” Ben-Gvir said.

He claimed Netanyahu had previously identified a different arrangement as preferable.

“You told me yourself that the perfect scenario for maximizing the votes would be Winter and Smotrich running together—because, according to you, Winter doesn’t bring any votes from undecided voters!”

Brig. Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter recently entered politics with his Amcha Yisrael party.

Winter said Wednesday that his party belongs to the right-wing bloc and would support only Netanyahu for prime minister.

Ben-Gvir claimed Netanyahu is seeking a smaller Otzma Yehudit so he could potentially form a broad government with Gadi Eisenkot after the election.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, said division among right-wing parties could again allow votes to be lost below the electoral threshold.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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