The polls do not flatter Gideon Saar, to say the least.
Survey after poll predicts a downfall, indicating that the public wants to show him the fast track out of the political arena.
Saar has failed in his main task, which is to attach a large and stable public that will believe in him and his ideas.
Even in polls that favor him, the expectation is that the New Hope Party will receive only 2.4%, while the blocking percentage stands at 3.25%.
The change Saar had hoped for did not come.
Saar joined the "Rak La Bibi" camp after running for the Likud presidency against Netanyahu and failing.
His expectation was that abandoning the movement in which he grew up and forming a new party would lead to a shock, which would lead to Netanyahu being removed from his post as chairman of the movement. The Likud is received with love and carried on its hands and brings redemption to a party that has strayed from the path.This new hope has collapsed and passed from the world.
Saar's departure did not cast a single ripple on support for Netanyahu and the Likud.
Even those who followed him in the last election awoke from the dream and turned to other places, realizing that his campaign of revenge had led them to connect to the delusional districts of the current government.
The move he made, leaving the Likud and joining the Lapid-Bennett government, permeates his consciousness as a kind of intensifying crisis, leading him to the conclusion that he must look for "new audiences."
Reinvent itself.
The idea of Saar's revenge on Netanyahu is an important motive, but it is not everything for his activities.
Saar from My Perspective is a historic, perhaps last, move by the generation of Likud princes - Dan Meridor, Benny Begin, Limor Livnat, Michael Eitan and Dan Tichon - who declared out loud that they would not vote for the Likud movement led by Netanyahu.
The Likud's growth over the past decade has led to many years of establishing the Likud's ideological and organizational hegemony, one of the components of which was the accelerated integration of Mizrahi MKs from whom the princes sought to differentiate themselves: Amsalem and Regev, Zohar and Ohana That it is difficult for them to come to terms with it.
The princes, who have seen Netanyahu give full backing to the growth of the eastern middle class, want to actually return to a "thin and noble" party, where the freedom movement will be a surplus of left-wing parties.
Since the days of democratization in the Likud led by Yitzhak Shamir, the princes have found themselves under the obligation and necessity to reach adjustments and agreements with the Flavians from the neighborhoods. Ezer Weizmann, one of the senior Likud princes, is said to have expressed a considerable degree of shock in the following words, in relation to the reality he encountered at the Herut Center, where Easterners and development towns have become dominant: And how to behave. "
In spite of everything, the path to mediation and cooperation had been found in previous years, but in the face of left-wing outrage and record-breaking hatred, the princes decided that their path with the "left princes" - Zandberg, Horowitz and Abbas - was better than their Likud partners. The princes tend to hang the blame on Netanyahu, but in practice, every sentence they say about them they end in disgust with the Mizrahi Knesset members in the Likud. Assault is the political expression of the princes' way. In his speeches he clicks with his tongue how right and just his path is, and that the danger to the character and future of Israel is arbitrary and existent. I wonder what new audiences will seek to consume his new wares?
Saar today heads a "thin" party, which is facing a political disappearance, and shouts loudly that it is "noble".
But the possibilities before him are slowly closing in.
All he has left is to join the central camp, and make his way through the great density that exists there between Lapid and Gantz to the disintegration of the right-wing phenomenon.
No one will be surprised if in the upcoming elections he is swallowed up in the party of Yair Lapid's leader, thus ending the era of princes.
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