Lapid, Saar, Lieberman and their comrades know that the day after they fulfill their goal of removing Netanyahu from power, they will once again remain a collection of parties - ranging from the conservative right, through the liberal left to the Arab factions of the joint list.
Yair Lapid, Avigdor Lieberman and Gideon Saar
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Yossi Zeliger, Gideon Markovich, Yossi Aloni, Flash 90
During the weekend and the holiday, the leaders of the "Camp of Transformation" parties worked hard, whether to form a coalition or just to make coalition votes.
Unlike the right-wing camp led by Netanyahu, the change camp is not really a camp.
Although it is larger, 61 seats compared to only 59 for the Netanyahu camp, it is not a camp.
A day after fulfilling their goal of removing Netanyahu from power, they will once again remain a collection of parties, ranging from the conservative right, through the liberal left, to the Arab factions of the joint list, which has no agenda attached to them.
Yair Lapid, who understood in the election campaign that his name rejects voters and not from among them, rightly preferred to hide and not stand in a head-to-head battle with Netanyahu.
But now we're after the election.
And the torch has no more reason to hide.
On the contrary, despite his relatively meager achievement, he is now trying to take advantage of the scorching failure of all other Left Bloc parties, including New Hope, and to position his status as the camp leader who will receive on his behalf the mandate to form a government.
Yair Lapid: "At the moment, Netanyahu does not have 61 seats - and we have" // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
Lapid arrives for talks with the leaders of the bloc parties with his hand on the top.
With the exception of Naftali Bennett, who still has to choose which side he belongs to, everyone else is obligated to recommend him and crown him.
This fact only sharpens the stinging failure of Gideon Saar, who could have been the King of Kings today, and in practice serves as Lapid's apprentice, just because he pledged from the first moment not to sit in the Netanyahu government.
Lapid, Saar, Lieberman and their gang know that a government like the one being brewed these days does not come to Israel and that it may even materialize and get under way, but their hatred of Netanyahu outweighs any rational consideration.
To the extent that they fail and continue to wallow in their disgust, prevent entry into government and lead to new elections, they are likely to also go against the interest of their own voters.
So is the possibility of crowning Bennett as prime minister.
Does anyone really think that when the voters have a future, Yisrael Beiteinu, the joint list, Labor or Meretz put the ballot paper, they thought their representatives would appoint Bennett?
When Saar announced the formation of his party, he did not state anywhere that he did not tolerate Netanyahu personally.
What did he say?
That Netanyahu is leading to instability.
That four election campaigns are registered in his name.
Zeev Elkin also emphasized the issue of the consecutive elections when he retired from the Likud and joined a new hope.
At the press conference he carried out he said that the fault line in his attitude towards Netanyahu occurred when he realized that the prime minister could have prevented another election and did not do so for personal reasons.
It would be very strange if now it were Saar and Elkin who would lead themselves to another election campaign and not join a government whose totality almost completely reflects their views.