Netanyahu’s only somewhat faithful ally in the coalition has been the Jewish Home party, headed by Naftali Bennett, who has made occasional trouble for Netanyahu by some very childish antics to embarrass the Prime Minister in order to hear the sound of one hand clapping from the “Yesha crowd,” the leaders in Judea and Samaria who think that Beit El is the capital of the country and that the term “disputed territories” means the Mediterranean Sea.
The Opposition parties already are giving the public a pre-election taste of the bitterness everyone’s going to have to swallow and the nonsense it will have to suffer for a few months.
Labor party chairman Yitzchak Herzog for the second day in a row said he will be the next Prime Minister, but he didn’t say of which country. First, he says, he will try to set up an alternative government to Netanyahu instead of forcing new elections.
Unless he thinks Netanyahu and Bennett are ready for the straight jacket, his arithmetic shows that he needs to go back to grade three.
Left of his left is Meretz, whose leader Zahava Gal-On said with a straight face, and probably speaking in a 20-year-old sleep, that new elections will give the people of Israel the chance to vote for the two-state solution.
Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman is sitting pretty. He is keeping his mouth shut while everyone stabs everyone else in the back, and his party is likely to get pick up some of the spilled blood thanks to some nationalist-thinking voters who backed Yesh Atid and disgruntled backers of Netanyahu.
In all of the thunder and hail, spelled with two “ees,” no one has mentioned one name, Moshe Kahlon, the real spoiler in the next elections.
As reported here this week, when he was Communications Minster until he quit the Knesset as Likud Knesset Member last year, Kahlon single-handedly ended the oligarchy of mobile cell phone companies, bring down prices by 90 percent. He also proved he is a true politician, saying that he would not return to politics and shortly afterwards announced he was creating a new party.
Now he has the credentials for being just like the rest of them, but a new face and a squeaky-clean image backed by incredible success could make Kahlon the new Lapid in the next elections.
If God indeed takes mercy on His people and Lapid and Netanyahu suddenly transform form politicians into human beings, Israel may be saved from cruel and unusual punishment.
If not, is going to be one heck of a Purim.