Make no mistake about Netanyahu again.
He winks and talks and is now aiming for the "center" and this is not just a tactic.
At the end of the day, a moment after the election results are known, he is able to prefer that "center" over his loyal partners from the ideological right, over those who have walked with him in the opposition desert over the past year, and practice a "use and throw" custom.
How do we know that?
simple.
Netanyahu was already there.
In the past, he preferred left-wing and center-right people, in the governments and coalitions he formed, over natural right-wing allies who were loyal to him.
In 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu joined the Labor Party in his government, appointed Ehud Barak as defense minister and left the "National Union" out of the government.
In 2013, he included Tzipi Livni in his coalition and entrusted it with the Ministry of Justice and responsibility for political negotiations. Netanyahu then tried to keep Bennett and the Jewish House out of the government, but the "Brotherhood" (with Lapid) disrupted his plans.
He almost integrated the Labor Party led by Avi Gabay into his government.
His envoys announced that he was ready to appoint Shelly Yachimovich as justice minister and Amir Peretz as president.
In 2017, he proposed to Yitzhak Herzog to join the unity government on the basis of a peace initiative centered on a significant restriction on construction in Judea and Samaria, a territorial compromise and a two-state formula.
Netanyahu is able to ruthlessly attack people like Tzipi Livni and Barak, and try to ridicule them, humiliate them to the ground and label them, often rightly, as a "dangerous left," but after the election, with various excuses, to integrate them into powerful and influential key positions. The ideological right or pushes it to the margins.
Netanyahu is many things, better and less good, a phenomenon with many talents for good and bad, rich in achievements and full of failures, but one thing is not: Netanyahu is not an ideological right.
Are you not convinced?
Remember the dragon 150 decision made by his first government, which for generations complicated and severely damaged the process of approving Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. Remember his support for the disastrous disengagement plan; On 30% of the territories of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, as well as the fact that he released in the Shalit deal, followed by masses of terrorists with blood on their hands.
In his Bar-Ilan speech, Netanyahu supported the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state.
Over the years, he froze and / or slowed down Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, and in talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry, he was willing to give up large parts of Judea and Samaria, as Ariel Kahana revealed at the time.
Do with this information what you want.
Excuse him, explain him, justify or defend him, but do one thing: do not call Netanyahu right.
Because right is not.
It is quite possible that Netanyahu, model 2022, with all the personal and political complexity he has plunged into, will not have the opportunity to choose between a "full-right" and a center-left this time, but if he miraculously reaches the lucky number 61, do not be surprised if he abandons again The real right, because when it is now aimed at the "center", it is not just a tactic, but an essence.
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