By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (RCIT Section in Israel/Occupied Palestine),19.09.2025
Netanyahu’s Sparta speech raises the question of whether it is not time to hospitalize Netanyahu. Still,
this would be too light a punishment for a serial killer who is committing genocide. The Western
countries, in a desperate attempt to save Israel from destruction, are reiterating the empty slogan of a
Palestinian state over about 20 percent of Palestine.
While Netanyahu’s foolish followers see him as a great leader, more and more Israelis understand that
Netanyahu is bringing about the annihilation of the Zionist state. Today, Yossi Verter writes in Haaretz:
“The most ridiculous thing in the sweaty campaign of Netanyahu’s people to repair the enormous
damage caused by his “Super Sparta” speech was the attempt to frame his remarks as “slip of the
tongue.” This in itself is a grammatical innovation. In the dictionary, a word of mouth is defined as
“speech that is unintentionally emitted” (for example, the case in which he called his youngest son
Avner “Avraham”). That’s not what happened here.
Netanyahu read his speech from writing. It is well known that the man is very diligent in his speeches –
he goes over and over again, renovates, erases, adds. Certainly, he did so in an economic speech
delivered at an important economic forum.
The paragraph in question was reasoned and eloquent, as well as realistic. To define “misspeech,” it
is likened to a person who purchases a rifle and appropriate ammunition in order to carry out an
assassination. He practices shooting, polishes his weapon, positions himself on the roof of a building,
aims for a long time at the object, pulls the trigger – and in his interrogation he claims that a bullet was
ejected while he was hunting birds.
But for a man for whom lying and denial are his way of life, what is another attempt to cover up the
truth, clumsy and miserable as it may be? Therefore, one can only wonder about the prime minister’s
mood when he wrote the speech. Sober? Kadorani? Depressed? Defeatist? Prof. Hagai Levin,
chairman of the Association of Public Health Physicians, believes that Netanyahu needs to see a
professional who will examine whether he is mentally fit to fulfill his role. On the face of it, this
recommendation is not baseless. This could have been learned from the next day, at that hurried
press conference that was convened to correct the “misunderstanding,” as Netanyahu put it.
Misunderstanding is the responsibility of the listener. Again, we are all to blame except him.
To appease the lunatic in the White House, he also opened a front with China, which he accused of
imposing a “blockade” on Israel along with Qatar, days after he ordered a deranged and failed attack
in Doha that united the entire Arab world against Israel. Like a pyroman, he jumps between arenas, a
jerrycan of kerosene in his hand, pouring and lighting, lighting and pouring, and is insatiable.
What an elation, what euphoria there was this week with Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-
Gvir. One speaks with shining eyes about a “real estate bonanza” in the Gaza Strip and about the
negotiations he is conducting with the Americans over the “distribution of percentages” of the land of
the land; The other screams, in awe, at a police conference, and promises to build a neighborhood for
police officers in the Gaza Strip, facing the sea, “with high-rises, but with all the equipment.”
The two are also the main reason for the current stupid and bloody move in the Gaza Strip, although
the sole responsibility lies with Netanyahu. Gideon B.’s chariots will become a particularly dark chapter
in the history of this terrible war. Once again, hundreds of thousands of destitute, starving Palestinians
fleeing the bombings to the south, and hundreds of civilian deaths added to the count displayed all
over the world, which sees Israel as a cruel and detached state led by an extreme and barbaric right-
wing and a savage prime minister who has lost his mind.
The claim in Israel spread by Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Saar is that European
leaders are succumbing to the pressure of Muslim immigrants who are proliferating in their countries. I
said: “This is a claim parallel to what was said at the time, that the Jews control the global economy.
Muslim immigrants assimilated into the countries that absorbed them. They are part of politics, of the
economy, of culture.”
Netanyahu threatens that “a unilateral step on your part will be met with a unilateral step by Israel.” It
clearly alludes to the annexation of territories in the West Bank. “How will you react? Will you
respond?” I asked. “Of course,” he said, “the response will be extremely harsh. Additional sanctions
will be imposed, mainly in the field of trade and the economy. It will be much worse than what is
happening now. Let no one in Israel make the mistake of thinking that we will recognize a Palestinian
state, that you will annex territories, and that will end it. Any annexation – and in our view any
annexation is not symbolic – will lead to a serious deterioration in relations with Israel.”
So what will happen, I asked, in despair. “The next few weeks will be very interesting,” his interlocutor
replied diplomatically.” (1)
The Zionists, and in particular the liberal Zionists, have real massive reasons for despair. The end of
Israel is only a question of a few years. History has chosen Netanyahu to bring about the collapse of
the Zionist state.
1) https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politi/2025-09-19/ty-article/.highlight/00000199-5e25-de72-a7fd-
7ee77d100000