Against the background of the crisis surrounding the reform of the judicial system, the terrorist attacks and the high cost of living, the political commentator of News 12, Amit Segal, does not rule out the possibility that 2023 will be an election year.
In a post he published, in which he reviewed the government’s activities since its establishment about two months ago, Segal wrote: “Warning note: Netanyahu’s sixth government will have difficulty surviving for days a deadly combination of terrorism, inflation and a wave of protests.”
Segal pointed out that “It is hard to believe, but the new government has not yet specified even two months to its establishment. The quota of days of grace that a new government enjoys has been completely wasted on nightmarish and perplexing negotiations, which embarrassed even its biggest supporters. The joy of victory was lost somewhere among the demands of The ultra-orthodox fight with Smotrich and the tweet fights with Ben Gabir.”
“The evil opened from three fronts,” explains Segal. “Terrorism, inflation and demonstrations. Thirteen deaths, most of them from the government’s natural support areas – ultra-Orthodox, Jerusalem and settlers – severely damaged the public security that the coalition promised to restore. Inflation also insists on soaring despite the promises to eradicate it, and something worse still threatens the government: Harm to the economy will now be attributed not to global price increases but to the consequences of the legal reform.”
“And most importantly: the silence enjoyed by governments in their first year stems from the shock of defeat on the losing side. The divided and broken opposition managed to recover at record speed thanks to the new flag, the flag of the struggle for changes in the judicial system. Instead of a determined coalition and a fighting opposition, the situation seems to be the opposite: no one has bothered to explain until now the reform, and when such an attempt was made it was blocked by the decision of the ombudsman to forbid the government’s number one explainer, Binyamin Netanyahu, to discuss it in public.”
“The combination of internal unrest, terrorism and inflation severely undermines the foundations of the government. Those who do not believe, are welcome to witness the exchange of tweets yesterday between the members of the cabinet regarding the events of Aqaba. Those who are not yet convinced, should follow the more violent skirmishes between the Chasidim and the Lithuanians on the question of who loves the Sabbath, and who Strongly condemns the work on the train on the day of rest.”
“In short,” concluded Segal, “the continuation of the wave of terrorism endangers the existence of the government, the collapse of the reform will surely bring the end, rampant prices as such. And a thought creeps into the heart: could it be, in a particularly wild scenario, that 2023, like its four predecessors, will also be a year Elections?”.