Wednesday.
Mitos Restaurant in Tel Aviv.
Likud members gather for a toast to the New Year, and the looks, the "mingling" conversations and the attention is stolen by MK David Bitan, whom one of the attendees describes as "walking around with an angry face" following the debates and internal fights in the recent primaries.
While Likud members are busy with Bitan's face, on the other side of the world Yair Lapid is dropping the two-state bomb he prepared for his speech at the United Nations. This picture of the situation describes a transformation that is taking place these days. Netanyahu is indeed winning in the polls, but in the battle for the agenda, the place Netanyahu and his friends led For years, Lapid and his friends have been winning by knockout.
Yair Lapid at the UN, photo: AFP
Likud tried to talk about the cost of living.
They distributed videos of Benjamin Netanyahu buying milk or refueling and stopped.
Is it because of the attacks from the other side that "the one who made the problem cannot be part of the solution"?
Is it because they prefer to focus on going around the aquarium in Likud strongholds and are lazy?
Maybe.
The main victims are actually not Likud members, but the residents of the entire State of Israel.
Netanyahu at "Bibiba", photo: Oren Ben Hakon
A few days before Rosh Hashanah and most Israelis are busy with preparations.
They look for deals on meat and fish, raise an eyebrow at boxes of Coca-Cola whose price reaches more than 60 shekels (!) and see how the price of their shopping basket has jumped one and a half times compared to previous years.
Even before the shopping basket, they saw their mortgage going up, or received a call from the landlord informing them of the rent increase again.
Although the cost of living is the most important, painful and burning issue at this time, the members of the government succeed in removing it from the agenda.
She remembered to talk about Takhbat on Shabbat: Merav Michaeli, photo: Gideon Markovitch
In the last two weeks, the election campaign has dealt with the debate on public transportation on Shabbat brought up by Merav Michaeli, the core studies suggested by Avigdor Lieberman and now the two-state issue of Yair Lapid.
What do they all have in common?
Inciting the agenda from painful failures.
During the vigil of Lapid who spoke about Ricky Cohen of Hadera and the cost of living and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the cost of living reaches new highs.
On Merav Michaeli's shift, the catastrophe on the roads never ends.
What to do?
Spins.
Remembered to talk about core studies: Avigdor Lieberman, photo: Yonatan Zindel, Flash 90
Why did the Minister of Transportation mention public transportation on Shabbat only during the election campaign and did not promote the issue from the first day in office?
What have Avigdor Lieberman and Yair Lapid done in the non-Orthodox government on the core studies issue so far?
Why did the prime minister who was also an alternate prime minister and foreign minister (!) in both countries remember just now?
The answer is clear - to incite the agenda from the really painful issues, or in short - they are working on you.
In any case, the Likud found themselves in an unfamiliar position - led and not led.
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