Amit Segal, News 12’s senior political commentator, refers in his weekly column in the newspaper’Diyot Ahronoth ‘to a riot in the plenum during the vote on the Electricity Law.
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Bennett’s outburst at the Likud and Shas benches is a very unusual event. Politicians usually seek to confront their superiors in order to elevate themselves to their level. “I do not remember a case of a prime minister who confronts MKs like Moshe Arbel, Galit Distel and Miri Regev,” Segal wrote.
“This is, of course, a mistake: a living coalition on jobs and budgets, a living opposition on attention. “Not many people would have objected to the Electricity Law without Bennett’s incident.”
According to Segal, “The incident begins even earlier: the most vulnerable wing on the right is MK Nir Orbach. He lives in a conservative outpost in Petah Tikva and all the problematic legislation to the right is being passed by the Knesset committee, which he heads. In recent weeks, he has been under pressure from right-wingers who have been wondering – quite rightly so – how a party that has won all the strongholds of the young settlement does not care about it, but does care about the Bedouin settlement.
Orbach made a mistake by beginners: it involved a vote on the Electricity Law and the regulation of outposts. It was an attempt to put out a fire with gasoline. Then Bennett tried to exterminate the great fire with a supertanker spraying jet fuel from the sky. “I get up to them to protect Abir and Nir, that the fire will be on me,” Sims told Ayelet Shaked, who was on a tour of the Baba Sally revelry compound at the time.
Segal writes: “For the opposition, these images are worth more than another victory in the plenum: they feel they have entered Bennett under the skin. Orit Struck also celebrated the statement of the prime minister who called out to her, ‘Fly away from my eyes’.
“But two years ago she invented the name on the right and exchanged compliments with Bennett. From now on, this is a standard mark: every Knesset member who wants to be famous will shout at him, hoping that he too will be called to fly. “