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2021-02-23T21:55:40.058Z


| political Elections are imminent, but campaigns are dormant • Maybe it's because both Netanyahu and Lapid know that whoever drinks too much of his bloc - will be left with nothing • Commentary Yair Lapid Photo:  Gideon Markovich Less than a month into the election the area looks rather sleepy. The bridges are empty of controls, some feature is barely noticeable in the field, and the venomous attacks of


Elections are imminent, but campaigns are dormant • Maybe it's because both Netanyahu and Lapid know that whoever drinks too much of his bloc - will be left with nothing • Commentary

  • Yair Lapid

    Photo: 

    Gideon Markovich

Less than a month into the election the area looks rather sleepy.

The bridges are empty of controls, some feature is barely noticeable in the field, and the venomous attacks of the various candidates against their rivals that we were used to seeing in previous rounds this time seem moderate and rather dull.

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It may not be time yet.

There is still a long way to go, and parties do not want to waste ammunition, resources and money on moves that will not leave an impression in the moment of truth.

It is also possible that the current agenda is dictated in advance and is very difficult to change.

Anything unrelated to the corona is usually pushed to a corner. 

But it may be related to the underground battles.

The prime minister, for example, is accustomed at the last minute to conducting an aggressive campaign and drinking the seats of right-wing parties and transferring them to the Likud. The rival parties also did well in the counter-reaction and grew at the expense of their bloc, Kadima led by Tzipi Livni. She finished once on an equal footing with the Likud and once again greater than her, of course all at the expense of the Left Bloc parties. 

But the desired result is not always obtained.

In the 2019 A elections, Netanyahu's immediate aggressive campaign ended the new right established by Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, and deprived the right-wing bloc of expensive seats that prevented the prime minister from forming a coalition. 

In the two subsequent rounds of elections, when the right reunited, Netanyahu was freed from worries about what was happening on the right wing, but in the current election campaign Netanyahu was once again forced to squint to the right to ensure that the religious Zionist party led by Bezalel Smutrich, of which he played a significant role. The block and prevents the formation of the right-wing government in which he is interested.

Is there room for both Meretz and her sister?

The main players in the left-wing bloc also share this concern today.

Although there is a future that is still far from the Likud in the polls, and Yair Lapid would certainly have been interested in growing further, but he also knows that over-increasing the number of seats may drop gaps in his future partners.

Three parties in the left bloc are swaying and may in the moment of truth fall: Labor, Meretz and Blue and White.

Since Merav Michaeli was elected Labor leader, it seems that the party is stable, but it should be remembered that until then the party was very far from the blocking percentage. 

So is Meretz.

The general premise in the left bloc is that Meretz has a stable and solid voter base, so its candidates can sleep soundly.

But Meretz has never faced a situation in which a sister party has emerged, completely identical to it, with the same figures, agendas and political opinions - the Labor Party led by Michaeli - and it is not inconceivable that after the polls close it becomes clear that only one of them has room in the Israeli political system. 

And there is of course the blue and white.

Bnei Gantz insists on not retiring, and even after calls from Lapid and 130 retired generals like him to do so, he seems determined to continue, which poses no small challenge to Lapid, who will eventually need the seats he will bring with him and if they lose - the chances of getting a government seat are slim. . 

The big question is whether the leaders of the big parties will hold on not to exaggerate the campaign and leave it on the medium fire it is now in, so as not to hit at the last minute the crutches on which their long-awaited government is supposed to stand.

Source: israelhayom

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