In the end, the events of the last week should be viewed as a tragedy.
I mean lotto da fe, that public humiliation parade of the infidels, which some characters now have to go through in what was once here the united right.
Today, all that remains is to look thoughtfully at what remains of Yoaz Handel, Zvi Hauser, Ayelet Shaked, and to a certain extent Gideon Sa'ar and Ze'ev Elkin.
Not to mention Bennett.
The United Right's tag.
What all these figures have in common is that they were considered in the past, with various levels of confidence or hope, to be the next layer of leadership of the Israeli right;
What is commonly called "Keder", a reserve from which could grow not only the leader or the next leader of the entire national camp - and as a result, with a high probability, of the country as well - but also the ideological environment that will formulate the next right-wing program.
The one that will come after Idan Netanyahu.
Handel and Shaked - paid the price of establishing the government of change (archive), photo: Gideon Markowitz
It is amusing that technically - the shell of this vision has come to fruition.
One of the leaders of the right did establish a government and head it, and all the names mentioned above worked within the coalition he assembled.
But it is clear that Naftali Bennett did not reach the prime ministership as the agreed leader of the Israeli right, just as it is clear that his friends on the right, in Tikva Hadda or in Israel Beitenu - did not act in the coalition as emissaries of the national camp.
Despite occupying the Prime Minister's office and the positions of ministers, it was not a right-wing government.
This is how the exploits of the next generation of the Israeli right-wing leadership culminated in a resounding fiasco that left the right-wing more divided than ever, and whose decisive and final result is that Yair Lapid is smiling at Balfour, Benny Gantz is dictating the political-security agenda and Ehud Barak is in the studios.
tragedy.
Bennett and the other politicians from the "United Right" led Lapid to Balfour (archive), photo: Mark Israel Salem
"But Bibi" is not an excuse
And here this group withered prematurely.
Handel and Hauser were abandoned to their fate by their friends in New Hope and had to fold the coffee sets, after painfully realizing the gap between their self-image and the real market value of their goods.
Ayelet Shaked changes messages and partners capriciously.
It almost hurts to type it, but it happens that in the polls she even sees Hadar Mokhtar from the bottom.
I'm not sure that the story is finished with her, because here and there there are still kernels of nostalgia for the old Ayelet Shaked, the one who was highly appreciated by the intelligentsia on the right, perhaps more than any other right-wing politician.
There were days when she was compared there to Thatcher.
In the past year, it finally disintegrated of all its symbolic assets.
Sa'ar and Elkin remain on the wheel, but only after they disgracefully disbanded their new party.
They were absorbed into the party whose clearly left-wing political line determines and will continue to determine the pair of chiefs of staff, without counting them. Their special contribution is measured by their agreement to carry out sabotage and conflict missions in the rear of the right-wing enemy on the mission of Captain Gantz. The pages of Sa'ar's conversations were scattered somewhere on the mother of the road. Tragedies .
Some of them admit in retrospect that "mistakes" were made.
But these are not innocent mistakes along the way.
It was the execution of a plan hatched with a clear mind.
A conscious choice to be involved in a strategic move to send the Likud and the Bloc parties to the opposition, and to establish a new political elite under them in which they will be able to have a better chance to climb to the top.
The founding idea, at the political level, was to take Netanyahu out of the game, whose presence, for them, blocked the chance to move forward.
The phrases that were heard around them were "Netanyahu stabs everything" and "Let him release already."
How can you grow in his shade?
Some of them had their stomachs full of Netanyahu, who approached, controlled, neutralized - and then distanced, divided, exiled and blocked their every option to integrate in a fair competitive manner in Likud - their natural target district.
In the past, the right-wing leadership of Shaked Kadur was caught, but it seems that the right-wing voters will have a hard time forgiving (archive), photo: Oren Ben Hakon
One can understand their hearts, and one can also ask why Netanyahu saw them as a threat and not as potential heirs to be nurtured, and perhaps thereby turned them into his opponents.
And it might be big.
These are childish excuses anyway.
Leaders grow and mature in a complex conflict environment and in the tangle of a system of constraints.
Each leadership generation has its challenges, obstacles and barriers - and part of the leadership transition rite is to overcome them and enter the right room at the front door.
This means with the blessing of the party establishment or alternatively with the support of an extensive popular voter base.
Preferably, by the way, both.
But this bold group decided to put their heads down without intra-bloc support and relying on the left's voter base, thus somehow making their way into the right room - through the back window.
That's why she won a procedural victory - and today she is basking in a fundamental defeat.
Therefore, it is not a "mistake" either, but simply a failure.
It turns out that it is immoral and impossible to represent the right without its voters sending you.
Biblical tragedy.
The next generation of princes
This group not only gave a huge moral victory to the Hark-la-Bibi camp and the left, but was also a significant agent in marking the national camp, the public that built them, as the cursed trouble of the Israeli nation.
The quick devotion to Lapid's "dark forces" narrative and adherence to a political movement that defiantly designed itself as a negative of the Likud and its partners, tattooed the image of the national camp as a political wing that must be suppressed and restrained as much as possible.
In its place, they call for the establishment of what Handel, Kahane and their ilk claim to call the "state right", which in a surreal manner renounces any pretense of governmental hegemony and strives as a goal for "unity" with the left.
Who would even want to follow leaders who pride themselves on representing a public that in their view is unfit to lead without the close supervision of the tastemakers from the left?
Neither wisdom nor good news: this is the essence of the rise and fall of the next generation of leadership on the right.
The Likud detractors have already realized that it is a shame to waste all the tears on Limor Livnat and Tzipi Livni;
Here, new princes ejected from the poison machine were added to the pool.
tragedy?
Perhaps this is the natural choice in the political evolution of the right.
The lessons were learned for Direon.
The space is free for the next leadership.
Also the attention.
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