With
30-odd days to go, do you still think Netanyahu the most competent,
gifted, and able of the candidates?
Binyamin Netanyahu has no equal.
Watch his performance as anchor Yonit Levy
interviews him on Israel’s Channel 12.
Swave, informed, articulate, sincere, and doggedly on
message. There is even
a touch of self-depracation and genuine
modesty. Netanyahu is like sugar. You crave more even if you know he is not good for you.
Every new promise is heartfelt and sincere, papering over
long stretches of lies. But
who cares? This time – this time, it will be different.
It is hard to imagine that Netanyahu will not form
the next government.
Orthodox people will vote for Bennett or Ben-Givir, or Netanyahu. Haredim for
one of the ultra-Orthodox parties or Ben-Givir. Right-wingers for Netanyahu or his nemesis Sa’ar or Bennett.
When the
dust settles, the likelihood is Bennett and Netanyahu will join forces
pulling in Sa’ar or the remnants of his New Hope Party.
The Lapid-led
anti-Bibi camp does not have the numbers. For now, he is the only theoretical alternative to
Netanyahu. A pale shadow of the Machiavellian master.
Labor is
running the anti-Zionist
Ibtisam Mara’ana. We can’t blame its leader Merav Michaeli for who her grandfather was, but for
her views, that unspun are on society’s margins (she’d cancel marriage and is
uber woke).
The Meretz
list includes the former head of Peace Now (which, whatever its origins long
ago, evolved into a lobby for foreign interests).
In an
alternate universe, Lapid, Sa’ar and Bennett would join forces after the election to block Bibi and the Haredim.
Alas, not
in this universe.
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I am open to running your criticism if it is not ad hominem. I prefer praise, though.