The chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu is one of the most experienced politicians in Israel, so what made him propose an initiative that makes no political sense? • Hint: Look for the answer in the polls
An abyss gaped between them.
Lieberman, Bennett, Saar and Lapid
Photography:
Oren Ben Hakon, Gideon Markovich, Yaniv Nadav - Spokeswoman for the Knesset
If I was not aware of the degree of personal hatred between Avigdor Lieberman and Benjamin Netanyahu, I might still think that the proposal of the chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu for a joint run with Saar, Bennett and Lapid came straight from Balfour. I have no doubt that Netanyahu's advisers Sit after Lieberman.
How irrational is this move for the bloc that opposes Netanyahu's continued rule? When it comes to connecting two close parties, the question is always whether the whole is greater than its two parts. For example, would it have been better for Israel to unite in time with Yesh Atid and establish Blue and White? That each of the lists could have obtained more seats for the bloc individually.If
it was a proposal for a joint run of Bennett and Saar's parties one can still think of a benefit in the connection.Even if it is a connection between Lieberman and Saar.But in this case it is connecting different ends of the political map Smuggle out potential voters to other well-known parties.
According to the polls, a bloc of Bennett-Saar-Lapid-Lieberman reaches about 54 seats when they run separately.
Does anyone think that connecting them together can really lead to a party coming to this area?
Is such a party capable of reaching more than 40 seats - a number that has not been seen in Israeli politics since the Labor Party in 1992?
Will Lapid agree to give up the lead again?
A large part of Bennett's voters are not Netanyahu's haters, but people with a clear right - wing ideology, who are not interested in Netanyahu's argument - not Netanyahu's.
A significant number of them prefer Netanyahu dozens of times over Lapid.
If Bennett had accepted the offer of the chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu and joined Lapid, he would at that moment return some lost seats to the Likud or at least to the party that would have risen to his right.
And if we say Yair Lapid joins Bennett, how many seats will he vote for Bennett and how many will turn back And they will move left to Meretz or to a new party led by Huldai that may yet arise.
And let's talk for a moment about the practice of the move.
Who will head the union?
Would it be Opposition Leader torch or maybe just Saar currently gets the most seats? Perhaps Lieberman is the oldest and most experienced of the bunch or Bennett who was until recently the minister of defense? Is he would torch to give back the lead after he had given for Ganz and fell?
What about the word The rude thing called ideology? What connects the lists other than "just not Bibi"? Here are some issues I would be happy to hear the list's opinion on: public transportation on Saturday, the overcoming clause, regulating outposts in Judea and Samaria, the Judiciary Selection Committee, conversion, sovereignty, law The nation.
Lieberman is trying to reinvent himself
And maybe what's behind Lieberman's proposal is actually something else.
The recent polls since Sa'ar's retirement from the Likud did reduce many seats for Bennett, but they also quietly hurt Lieberman.
In a News 12 poll yesterday it dropped to just 6 seats.
With an aggressive campaign by Netanyahu on the one hand and by the members of the "Rak La Bibi" bloc on the other, Lieberman may reach the dangerous area of the blocking percentage.
The man who previously served as foreign minister and defense minister suddenly finds himself gone.
He is out of the political game.
Now he has to reinvent himself.
And what's better than a hopeless spin that returns it to the headlines for at least a few hours?