The two protagonists of the new drama In a Bad Future are media people, which could indicate a clever campaign strategy • Not sure he did indeed send a traitor to his friend • Commentary
Just at a time when many of us are at the height of longing for a night out in a good movie, MK Ofer Shelach arranged for us yesterday the beauty of drama as the main star - a role that was reserved to this day for only one person - party chairman and founder Yair Lapid.
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Those who have read Shelach's lunch tweet, Lapid's friend and loyal partner in his political career over the past eight years, got the impression that Shelach has dropped a bomb and challenged his good friend for 30 years.
The eyebrows were raised particularly high, as Shelach is also the one who has stood as Lapid's deputy and loyal adviser over the years, and has dealt with the founding and operation of the party, which is also routinely run as if it were in an endless election campaign.
But even if the crisis in the relationship seems credible, and even if Shalach does believe that the left expects his leadership, one should pay attention to the long and reasoned post he posted on his Facebook account, and remember that the two drama protagonists are also media people.
Meaning: Behind every word and word that comes out of their mouth or pen ink is some clever campaign strategy that knows how to anticipate the rolling news event and take advantage of it to leverage goals.
That may be what's happening now.
After the curiosity that Zera sent throughout the day, and the tension he built, he appeared in the newscasts with the message that there is a future that needs to be refreshed and the only reigns there are over, for him.
There is no reason to suspect that he does not believe what he says, but despite the dramatic tone, it is not at all certain that he did indeed betray his friend.
The two, in the end, have a common overarching goal: to overthrow the Netanyahu regime - one way or another.
The current future constellation may have been replaced by a different formula, and the two will find themselves partners - but in a different way.
Send has a desire to advance politically, and it is possible that yesterday he inflated an experimental balloon.
As Lapid's secret man, Shelach knows best that the party's chairman and the opposition do not believe in primaries and are jealous of Atid since its inception, even when it was part of a white brush. Yesh Atid's DNA belongs to Yair Lapid, so the challenge Political, concerning the image of Yesh Atid as a party devoid of internal democracy.
Although he has pledged to remain in a bad future even if he does not win the primaries he seeks to establish there, it is not inconceivable that further down the road he will be a leading figure in the neighboring parties on the left.
In such a scenario, if Lapid leads the center camp, one can imagine future cooperation between the two.
This may be the new formula for the ongoing attempt to tickle the Likud and Netanyahu's government on the way to the two's desires: a government coup.
