With Nissenkorn, Gantz and Ashkenazi Bennett and Shaked must come in to balance what they called the "left-wing government" • The right should recognize that the political reality has changed • Opinion

• Prime Minister Netanyahu (right) and Naftali Bennett

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  Oren Ben Hakun

At the end it must end in compromise. The right should be part of the new government. This is probably what most voters want, so many Likud voters are also convinced. So does common sense. 

The right, which is part of the national camp, will not be of any use to the barren opposition. Precisely to balance what was described by her yesterday as a left-wing government, she must be inward. The swearing-in government sworn in the next day would be more balanced, and the ideological right-wing voice would be heard at the cabinet table and cabinet. In front of Nissenkorn in law, Gantz confidently and Ashkenazi outside - the right should not only take on influential and significant executive roles; It also has to join the Likud ministers at the government table, who will keep Netanyahu there on the right. The opposition benches in the Knesset have no chance of doing so. From there just scream, and may sound louder, but not really influential.

The trouble with the political plunder between the Likud and the right is that everyone is right. Right is right in her claims that Netanyahu is behaving in a use-and-throw manner toward her: When he needed her to preserve the right-wing bloc, which eventually brought him the prime minister's role, he could secure her mountains and hills, and even reward her with three senior ministers (security, education and transportation) to To stay with him. He now deceives a loyal partner without whom he had no government. Likud is also right that the demands of the right are expropriated; That the meager electorate that was right in the elections, only six seats, does not justify four ministers nor three, despite the excellent performance of Bennett, Shaked and Smutrich in the last term.

One way or another - in the current political reality, the political maneuvering capacity she had in her previous term cannot and should not be to her right. For a simple reason: then it would not have been possible and now - possible. It is possible, but not desirable, that the voice of the right and of religious Zionism (despite the fragmentation within it) is an important voice in today's Zionism and Zionist practice.

Netanyahu will make a serious, and perhaps political, error, if he does not acknowledge it and make it more flexible. Despite his difficulty in the Likud, he still has the maneuverability of Bennett and Almond. The Ministry of Health is one card, and there is also the option of granting two ministers to the right, and not one in the security cabinet.

The right itself will do well to focus its demands on substance issues that are close to the hearts of right-wing voters, such as Jerusalem, the settlement or the judiciary. Maybe there, and not in the service roles, Netanyahu will be easier to respond to. After a brief term in government, she can always retire if she finds out she lost influence there. In the meantime, her efforts will be done on the inside, despite the anger and insult.