Gideon Saar yesterday (Photo: Haim Goldberg)
Despite Elkin and Michal Shir’s fiery speeches against Likud members, there is no answer as to why their party chairman Gideon Saar insisted on bringing the emergency regulations to Judea and Samaria for a vote yesterday (Monday).
Deadline is still ahead of us and in Israeli politics everything closes at the last minute if not afterwards. Saar put in a tight pressure brace and did not agree to postpone the vote yesterday, despite the understanding that there are not enough fingers to pass the law. He did not agree to the extension in order to try to apply further pressure, but safely led the law and caused a miscalculation within the coalition.
Naftali Bennett in the plenum yesterday (Photo: Haim Goldberg)
Jida Rinawi Zoabi and Ghanaim voted against. After understanding that Silman is closed with the opposition fully and will not vote in favor of extending the emergency regulations to Judea and Samaria.
“The experiment with you has failed,” Nir Auerbach told the plenum of the Ghanaians after his vote against. Rinawi Zoabi was not left behind. Only about two weeks ago, Lapid sat with her and “put her back in the groove” and everything was behind them. It did not last long. Ghanaian and Zoebi signaled to the right wing of the government that there is a limit to the cooperation between Arabs and Jews in the government.
Saar seems to have strived for just that. If he wants to form another government with Netanyahu in the current Knesset, he must also send a message to the more right-wing wings that dislike Netanyahu, we were Yoaz Handel, maybe also Zvika Hauser, and of course Nir Orbach and Ayelet Shaked, who after the vote went to unite and contacted Avir Kara. More is possible.
Nir Orbach (Photo: Haim Goldberg)
Saar understands that the business is before liquidation and if it is already falling apart he wants it to be on the best timing for him. He overthrows the government over regulations for Judea and Samaria, an issue at the heart of the right-wing position, which only in our crazy politics could we see such a grotesque view in which Mansour Abbas of the Islamic Movement, along with Yair Golan and Musi Raz vote in favor of extending Judea and Samaria regulations to them. Hanoch Levin would not have been able to write such a play.
Abbas tries to convince Zoabi and Ghanaim (Photo: Haim Goldberg)
Saar can form a government with Netanyahu despite his promises, he will say we tried, we moved Netanyahu for a year, but the collaboration with RAAM did not succeed. He will neutralize the big threat for him in the moderate right-wing bloc: Naftali Bennett. Both on the same slot, with Bennett as prime minister and Saar only recently recovered a bit in the polls.
Now that the situation is either an election or a government from within the Knesset, Saar will say that he saved the country from further elections, which Bennett has so far boasted about, will return to the right wing as a hero and may be crowned Netanyahu’s successor in due course.
Edith Silman in the plenum yesterday (Photo: Haim Goldberg)
The vote yesterday was an alibi for dismantling and marking for opponents from home, Handel Orbach & Co., that here we have come to a dead end, it is worth thinking of another way.
In our politics, of course, anything is possible. Yesterday, Netanyahu was reprimanded by Likud members for moderating personal tones against Saar. If Saar suspects Netanyahu, he will try with Lapid and Bennett for an advice ceremony for the current situation. But a cart seemed to be on its way.
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