All along, Bnei Gantz has shown weakness in his ability to restrain his comrades, allowing from the first moment their unbridled rampage against the prime minister.
Even after the Knesset approved the bill for dispersal in a preliminary reading, the question remains whether we turned to the elections without a clear answer.
The legislative process will take two to three weeks.
In political terms it is an eternity.
The real deadline is December 23, the deadline for passing a budget or the Knesset automatically dispersing.
Photo: Knesset Channel
Even today, after the proposal has been approved, it seems that not many are the ones interested in its results.
Including a significant proportion of those who voted for it.
Blue and white members were seen after the vote as someone who froze a demon and faced a difficult and cruel political fate.
The Likud was divided, with some believing that the government should move out of the world and the sooner it happens the better, compared to others who argue that at this time, in the midst of the days of the Corona, it would be a big mistake to dissolve the Knesset.
Netanyahu knows that in the current media climate it will be difficult for him to change the narrative according to which he is the only culprit in the early elections.
As if his refusal to give up an exit station is the generator of all the trouble in the coalition.
That personal considerations outweigh nationalism, and that the budget that is so critical now serves as a political hostage for Netanyahu.
Of course there is an element of truth in the claim, but the reality is a bit more complex.
Because if in the eyes of Bnei Gantz the state first and foremost, the transfer of the 2020 budget, which is already ready for a vote and can be brought to the Knesset for approval from moment to moment, should have been allowed.
Netanyahu's insistence on an exit station is no different from his insistence on preventing that exit station.
Both use the budget as a hostage equally.
The claim that Netanyahu planned from the first moment not to abide by the rotation agreement also sounds unreasonable.
Netanyahu is the one who demanded that a clause be included in the coalition agreement on the approval of a biennial budget.
If he had planned in advance to be based on a polling station, he would not have sought such a clause.
Netanyahu: "Ganz should press the brakes and stop the election" // Photo: Knesset Channel
Ganz is right that Netanyahu, who plans not to grant him the rotation he signed with him, deceived him.
Netanyahu is right that the first to violate the coalition agreement are blue and white members.
It is not just the bills that have been passed in violation of the agreements and the establishment of the State Attorney's Search Committee or such and such votes that have been approved or dropped as they see fit without coordination - but it is the whole spirit.
It was as if Blue and White did not end their just-not-bibi campaign from the election campaign and entered the government only to improve positions for tougher attacks.
Already in the first days of the formation of the government, Minister Meirav Cohen said that she did not trust Netanyahu's leadership.
Despite the protest of the Likud ministers, Ganz did not find it appropriate to reprimand her because this is not the practice in the government and ministers cannot attack their leader.
Long before budget matters, when Netanyahu attacked the State Attorney's Office at the beginning of his trial, Avi Ninskoren did not hesitate to respond on her behalf and attack Netanyahu.
This was also the case when the Balfour demonstrations gained momentum, and despite the closure and the increase in morbidity, blue-and-white ministers saw themselves as defenders of demonstrators on earth while inserting a demonstrated finger inside Netanyahu's eye.
This is not how a government can be run, with or without a rotation agreement.
Gantz demonstrated throughout his weakness his ability to restrain his comrades and allowed from the first moment their unbridled rampage against their leader.
Contrary to popular belief, non-compliance with the rotation agreement is not the beginning of a process of government disintegration.
These are his end.
The exchange of messages between the offices of the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister continued all the time before and after the vote.
Currently the gaps are too large and seem very difficult to bridge.
Netanyahu wants Gantz to give up the rotation.
Ganz wants Netanyahu to block the polling station through legislation.
These are not things that one of them would be willing to give to another.
But it is not inconceivable that more proposals will soon pass from hand to hand.
And it is possible that in any such proposal the gap will narrow.
Equally may not be.