Yesterday at 12:41, at least 40 MKs pressed the button that sends them to the employment bureau - to look for work. The process of dispersing the Knesset has begun, and if there are no dramatic surprises, it will officially end on Monday or Tuesday. Recent.
In Israeli politics, as in Israeli politics, everything that is strange and illogical happens.
The opposition, which for a year worked, hoped, expected and fought to go to the polls - is now doing everything possible to avoid elections.
In a coalition that has done everything to form a government and prevent elections, they are rushing to the polls.
So why is this happening?
Let's start with the opposition.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Moshe Gafni and the other members are trying their best to avoid elections.
They even make far-reaching proposals to Gantz, Saar and any other MK who is willing to set foot in an alternative government. Why? Because elections are now dangerous for their political future. Four times they went to the polls and four times they failed to form a government. Historic and world first victory over the corona with the help of vaccines - they did not meet the task.
To be or cease?
Gafni and Netanyahu, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The next election for Netanyahu is to be or to cease.
He knows that if he does not succeed in forming a government this time, there will be a demand from someone in the Likud, and especially among the ultra-Orthodox, to vacate his seat and allow the formation of a right-wing government without him.
Otherwise, they will look for other options.
The opposition prefers one bird in one hand to two in the ballot box.
What is happening now in the Israeli parliament is detached from all common sense.
The right holds more than 70 seats, it was supposed to control and govern easily.
Knesset members who are similar to their members in their worldview and even collaborated in the same party until recently are making themselves political junkies.
The election event is not a client of the rational world, it belongs to the psychological field.
It is built on anger, revenge, mistrust and quite a bit of personal hatred.
Everyone knows that Gideon Saar is angry with Netanyahu, Bnei Gantz does not believe him.
An alternative government will not be formed like this, and the price, as usual, we all pay.
The other side, the coalition, seeks - with a great deal of hypocrisy - to disperse the Knesset as quickly as possible.
Lapid does not want to wake up one morning and find that instead of entering the Prime Minister's Office, an alternative right-wing government has been formed behind his back.
He is willing to pay for it even by not being able to enact the defendant's law.
The main thing to disassemble.
Does not want a right-wing government behind its back.
Lapid and senior coalition members Bennett and Gantz, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Why hypocrisy?
Because the members of this government broke all their promises, looked at the camera and did the opposite, harmed every ideology they embraced in the name of a single core promise - to prevent a fifth election.
Prevent what they defined as immense chaos and harm to the country.
But the chair, as we have already learned, the chair first of all.
Were we wrong?
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