The loathing for Netanyahu on the left has led to the seemingly imaginary scenario being seriously considered • However, at this stage it is not the official position of any party
Will Bennett succumb to left-wing pressure?
// Photo: Arik Sultan, Gideon Markovich, Gil Eliyahu
If there is one thing that unites Netanyahu and Lapid, Saar and Smutrich, Lieberman and Ayman Odeh these days, after the election, it is the anxious expectation of Naftali Bennett.
Whoever took care to position himself throughout the election campaign as a Libra language, now justifies the title, when neither side has a government without him.
By the way, it is not certain that he also has a government with him, but without him he certainly does not.
Not to Netanyahu or to the other side.
Bennett's dilemma is not simple.
According to some sources from New Hope, Blue and White and even the Labor Party and Meretz, their desire to remove Netanyahu from power is stronger than any other desire and therefore they will even agree to enthrone Bennett, more right-wing than Netanyahu, to carry out their plot.
And the proposal to enter the Prime Minister's Office within a few weeks from today is a proposal that every politician will have a hard time refusing.
But the price may be too high.
This is a government that relies on the members of the joint list.
Not sure Bennett is due for that.
This is a baguette cut to the right.
The government itself will be a mainly left-wing government, mainly in the civil and judicial systems, and it is doubtful how long it will be able to survive.
It took Levent a long time to shake off the "Brotherhood" he had forged at the time with Yair Lapid, an alliance that had done him a lot of damage in the right base, and it is unclear whether he would now be willing to embark on another similar adventure.
But the second option is not something either.
Although Bennett will be able to receive from Netanyahu any portfolio he wishes in exchange for joining his government, he will leave Netanyahu as prime minister.
The same Netanyahu who went on his head for months, released videos and conducted targeted propaganda with the aim of weakening him - and also succeeded.
This is the same Netanyahu who also chose not to join the coalition despite his modest demand to be appointed health minister, under the position of defense minister in which he served.
Moreover, joining Netanyahu and the right-wing bloc will not achieve the required majority.
It will bring them closer to 59 and that is not enough.
Although in this case a possibility will open up for creative solutions such as Gideon Saar, defectors, or avoiding RAAM, neither of them is easy and it is not known if it will succeed. Which is in his pocket.
In the days when the battle began in the president's ear, the Likud, meanwhile, has no choice but to wait.
To the extent that Bennett recommends himself or does not recommend anyone, Lapid will probably have more recommenders than Netanyahu.
In such a case, Netanyahu will also not insist on receiving the mandate first.
Because he really has nothing to do with him now.
As long as Bennett is on the fence, Netanyahu's options will only open up if the other side tries and fails.
The downside, is that it can still succeed.
