The Israeli left is still a serious problem, and traitors in the right enable it
Caroline Glick made a vital point that the leftists in Israel are still a serious threat, and the worst part is that Netanyahu-haters on the right prove very effective in giving the left the ability to sabotage everything:
Ironically, the right itself – or specific factions of the right – is the second component of the left's strategy for maintaining and expanding its power despite its lack of public support. The presence on Israel's political scene of right-wing political factions motivated primarily not by ideology but by hatred for Netanyahu enables the political left to secure its continued relevance and it enables the institutional left to secure its power. As Israel moves toward elections, there are two right-wing parties that are largely defined not by their ideological convictions but by their hatred of Netanyahu – Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beytenu party and Gideon Sa'ar's newly minted "New Hope Party."This is what's particularly bad about Liberman for starters, but also with Bennett. He's clearly an electoral saboteur from the very moment he ran for Knesset nearly a decade ago, and now, he's willing to be what certain RINOs in the USA are willing to be for Donald Trump. I'm not sorry Bennett's Yamina party was left out of the coalition. No doubt, if he destroys Netanyahu's chances in the coming election for 2021, he'll never apologize and have no qualms for it. Bennett's done little or nothing to prove he has remorse for the absurd steps he took that led to his rejection from the coalition. Now, Liberman and Bennett are joined by a third offender of a faux-rightist, Gideon Saar, and to make matters worse, Zeev Elkin's joined Saar in his divisive venture.
Netanyahu hating rightists empower the left politically in two ways. First, while they are ideologically aligned with the right, they are politically aligned with the left. Both Lieberman and Sa'ar have made clear they will not join a coalition led by Netanyahu. Also running is Naftali Bennett and his Yamina party, which has made clear that it will join both a left-led coalition and a right-led coalition.
Sa'ar, Lieberman, Bennett and their colleagues understand that the only way for them to form a government without Likud and Netanyahu is to form a government with the left. Consequently, these "anyone-but-Bibi" rightists are the left's ticket to power. This unspoken, but well-understood state of affairs is the reason that the media, which has obsessively attacked Netanyahu for the past 25 years, slobbers over "anyone-but-Bibi" right-wing politicians.
Even when the "anyone-but-Bibi" camp doesn't have the requisite number of Knesset seats to form a government, so entrenched are its right-wing members in their hatred for Netanyahu that they still empower the left. Following the April and September 2019 elections, Lieberman prevented the formation of a government and forced the country into the second and third round of elections by refusing to join a Netanyahu-led coalition.
Which leads to the worst thing about this year's election: it's unlikely there'll be much unity, and Bennett/Liberman certainly aren't providing any. The lack of gratitude for any positive steps taken during the Trump administration by these faux-rightists is truly galling. And the worst part, as noted, is that no thanks to Liberman/Bennett/Saar, the left in Israel is kept afloat, even as the Labor party itself looks like it may be seeing its last days in the Knesset if they run independently.
Labels: Israel, Knesset, Moonbattery, political corruption
