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Benny Gantz's Blue & White party supported a preliminary vote for dissolving the Knesset today, and one has to wonder if he really wants to tank his party altogether, given how little support they're likely to get in the next election (and Labor's unlikely to fare any better, nor are both parties bound to get much if they run on a joint ticket). Mati Tuchfeld addressed the situation:

One look at Defense Minister Benny Gantz over the last few days and it's hard not to see this is a man stirring in his own soup. Ultimatums violated, promises tossed aside for no good reason, and a long trail of disappointed voters left behind, the Blue and White party head now faces the most difficult dilemma of his political life. This situation is of course his own doing. He can either fold on the budget issue, give Netanyahu a later date for calling elections before the rotation deal goes into effect and put an end to any remaining trace of dignity he might have and seemingly along with it his political career, or he can stand firm and walk unflinchingly toward an election campaign that will also spell the end of his political career.

Never has a man dug himself a hole so deep.

And if Gantz goes ahead with this, he's bound to lose only so much. Mainly because he seems more concerned about his pointless leftism, and not what the public wants, which is vaccines and other medicines that can help put the Corona crisis to rest. On which note, Yamina's pretentious chairman, Naftali Bennett, is making the same mistakes as Gantz, as told in this biased Times of Israel item:

With the government seemingly headed for collapse amid continued infighting between the Likud and Blue and White parties, Yamina backed a bill Wednesday to dissolve the Knesset and hold elections for the fourth time in two years, helping it pass in its initial plenum reading. [...]

Ahead of the vote on the bill to dissolve the Knesset, Bennett launched a fresh broadside against both Netanyahu and Lapid, and slammed the government for its response to the coronavirus.

“A million Israelis see there’s a government here that simply doesn’t care about them,” he told the Knesset plenum, referring to unemployment estimates. “This government took the startup nation and turned it into the nation of fights.”

“There is a common denominator between Netanyahu and Lapid,” Bennett said. “Both of them deal with politics, night and day, both of them spread hate — hate of Haredim, hate of Arabs, hate of settlers.”

My my, so Bennett's chosen to draw a moral equivalence between the better and the awful, I see. He probably buys into all those laughable polls claiming his party will get at least 20 seats too, but when elections take place, chances are they'll remain a single-digit party, much like Labor is now. It's one thing to accuse Lapid of such hatemongering, but to say Netanyahu, who oversaw a peace treaty with the UAE and Bahrain, is "hatemongering", that's very sick, degrading, inappropriate, and could've been avoided very easily if Bennett wanted to. Why, if Bennett really cared, he would have joined the government without making things too difficult, and chances are he could've helped solve problems with Covid19 more easily. Instead, he chose a divisive path that's now left him in the opposition along with Avigdor Liberman. Both are unworthy of their positions, and should both retire.

Labels: Israel, Knesset, Moonbattery, political corruption