Do not weep over his fate: Bennett was a good manager, but a bad politician
He became the 13th Prime Minister of the State of Israel and made history against all odds.
Had it not been for the disturbing circumstances that led to the formation of the current government, Bennett would have seen the Prime Minister's Office only on television
Ben Mercury
30/06/2022
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 08:47 Updated: 09:52
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Do not cry over Naftali Bennett.
He became the 13th Prime Minister of the State of Israel and made history against all odds.
Had it not been for the disturbing circumstances that led to the formation of the current government, Bennett would have seen the Prime Minister's Office only on television.
He jumped into a boiling sambation and managed to calm the storm and cool the winds a bit.
Do not cry over Naftali Bennett.
He became the 13th Prime Minister of the State of Israel and made history against all odds.
Had it not been for the disturbing circumstances that led to the formation of the current government, Bennett would have seen the Prime Minister's Office only on television.
He jumped into a boiling Sambatyon and managed to calm the storm and cool the winds a bit. He transferred the chaos he found in Israel to Iran.
He demonstrated good management skills, but demonstrated alongside them poor political skills.
If he had turned the pyramid and invested his mental powers in the party and the coalition, and not in Iran and Gaza, he would have remained prime minister until the end of his term.
That's the whole story.
Bennett is a good manager and a bad politician.
His predecessor was a bad manager and a skilled politician.
So Bennett did in one tormented year things his predecessor had not done in a dozen endless years, but Bennett is now going home.
His predecessor is trying to return.
Bennett is a good manager and a bad politician (Photo: Flash 90, -)
Cry for us.
On the bitter fate of this country, which has almost reached a safe shore only to discover a perfect storm, more difficult than its predecessors, which threatens to drown it again.
Bennett often uses the phrase "I lay on the grenade."
He lent it to me from Ashkenazi, who was the first to identify the situation.
Both are right.
The original blue and white, who split to sit with Netanyahu in the first rotation government, was the first to "lie down on the grenade."
Ganz and Ashkenazi violated the trust of their voters, but did so out of net patriotic motives.
They managed to stop the madness of Netanyahu and his aides (remember the crazy appointment of Ofir Akunis as Minister of Justice, for about two hours, while the ombudsman shouts in the background that the procedure is illegal?) And "lay hands on the wheel."
In the second stage it was Bennett's turn to lie on the grenade.
This is one of the most powerful spray grenades that has exploded here in our political history.
It is not limited to a single explosion, it drops many cavities and it threatens the law and existential threat arrangement.
Now it's Yair Lapid's turn.
Will he be the first to be able to lie on the grenade and stay alive?
Now it's Lapid's turn to jump on the grenade (Photo: Flash 90, Olbia Fitoussi)
Bennett, not without hesitation, decided to move her right to Ayelet Shaked.
This is despite the fact that Matan Kahana is a much more natural and logical candidate than she is.
Kahana, like Bennett, came to the conclusion that Netanyahu must not be allowed to continue to hold the helm of the state, even for a moment.
He saw the horror up close and understood what very many understood before him.
Shaked is not there.
Its political aspirations continue to aim as high, as high as possible and the way there must pass through the Likud base.
So why did she get her right after all?
Because there was no other option.
Although she has been blasphemed throughout the past year, although she was marked as the one who would overthrow Bennett, defect to the Likud, organize an internal revolt or split the party, she remained there until the last minute.
She is the one who exhausted the effort to form a right-wing government and then gave Bennett a "green light" to go to the change government.
She withstood the superhuman pressures that surrounded her and did not move.
The alliance between her and Bennett is long-standing, tests and challenges.
He could not not give her the reins.
He did not do it happily, but it was the only thing he could do.
What will Shaked do?
Right now, her journey seems like a political suicide.
Right-wing voters in polls have changed.
Almost everyone today belongs to the "just not Bibi" camp.
She will never be able to convince them not to sit with Netanyahu and she will never be able to convince the biblists that she will sit (only) with Netanyahu.
The chance that Matan Kahana will stay by her side on the right is not high.
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Shaked's journey looks like political suicide (Photo: Niv Aharonson)
A reasonable offer from Bnei Gantz, for example, would push him out.
Kahana has gained considerable political heights this year and is enjoying rising popularity in the central districts as well.
And having said all that, it is not advisable to eulogize Shaked prematurely.
The political cemeteries are full of eulogies.
If there is no last-minute crazy drama, tomorrow Yair Lapid will become Israel's 14th prime minister.
It will be in his hands.
Netanyahu did everything, including everything, to prevent this.
In recent days, running around the opposition leader's neighborhood has become a real panic. The night before, the proposals turned into a murky, confused and chaotic stream of vicious ideas thrown at Gantz on the one hand and Gideon Saar on the other. There was no chance of that. Political deal with Netanyahu.
This will be the first time since 2009 that Netanyahu goes to the polls from a position other than the prime minister.
This will be the first time that the ultra-Orthodox make it clear to Netanyahu in advance that this time they are not in his pocket as always.
This will be the first time Netanyahu knows it could be the last time.
All this does not contribute to his or his own peace of mind.
Today it depends more on the torch and its performance in the coming months than on itself.
Netanyahu hates being dependent on others.
Everything is possible.
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