Professor Yaron Zelicha announced today (Wednesday) the establishment of the “Economic Party” under his leadership, yesterday it was Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai who announced the establishment of the “Israelis” party, which also includes Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn, who has since resigned. Former Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot has announced that he will not run in the election. In light of all the political developments, political commentator Raviv Drucker was interviewed on Aryeh Eldad and Ben Caspit’s program on 103FM and tried to analyze the current political map.
The legal commentator referred to the announcement by Professor Zelicha, who previously served as the economic accountant in the Ministry of Finance, about entering politics: “Prof. Yaron Zelicha recognizes what he sees as an opportunity. The economic issue is very strong and he is perceived as someone who can handle “To give him five seats is a difficult question.” “Everyone understands today what Netanyahu is saying, it is not that anyone disagrees with his perception of security or his political perception, Everything Netanyahu represents Everyone opposes, Saar, Zelicha, Ganz and Horowitz are not really different in what they think of Netanyahu“Drucker explained the reason why the seats will be divided between the various parties.
Ganz attacked Netanyahu: “After the election, he will no longer be prime minister”
We will not go to the polls with seven parties in the center left, obviously there will be connections. Send will not run alone, offer him to head the work, and Zelicha will not run alone, I doubt Ganz will run alone and do not know to whom a rat will connect.
“You have to break the myth that you have to unite to increase power, sometimes it reduces power because there is always someone who does not like the connection. It’s provided you are safe enough above the blocking percentage, send and work no, rat and torch maybe yes so maybe there is no logic in their union. And Lapid should not unite, and I think so to this day. In any case, there will be no candidate for prime minister in the style of Gantz, or as we tried to see in Livni or Herzog. “If Netanyahu, Bennett and the ultra-Orthodox bloc do not have 61, it will convene the day after the election and they will have to decide who is in each position, with the common denominator being just not Bibi.”.
Where will the remnants of the work go?
“A rat is a very good option, Now everyone wants the remnants of Gantz’s seats the question is how much he will be able to keep his head above water“, To come with goods to negotiate a connection. A great injustice was done to Bnei Gantz, who is not an impressive man as a leader but he made good decisions. In his environment it is not ruled out that there will be a No. 2 rat. He can contribute to him electorally.”
Were you surprised by Izenkot’s decision not to enter?
“No surprise, I was also not surprised if he came in, we felt the lack of enthusiasm all the time, if there was a really good option, if blue and white would fight and kick and my son and my back would tell him to head he would come, but with the existing options there was nothing Tempting enough. “
That he could not be a minister, played a role in the decision?
“It’s very strange for him, if he was part of a party that would form the next government as number two with Saar, it was natural that the first law the government would formulate was to change the cooling law and it would pass, but Izenkot objected to it because it would seem personal as seamstresses That’s just him. “
Finally, Drucker also tried to explain the situation of the chairman of the right-wing party, Naftali Bennett, in light of Bezalel Smutrich’s recent statements: “The numbers are that according to various polls, the Netanyahu bloc with Bennett and the ultra-Orthodox is between 56-58 seats. If he reaches 61, This is a distance of nothing, the pressure that Netanyahu will put on Bennett the day after will be ‘Let’s set up our dream coalition, the bloc rules, what we wanted all the election campaigns’. It will be such a pressure that I do not think he can withstand. Bezalel Smutrich said he would prefer such a coalition led by Netanyahu than a coalition in which Bennett is the prime minister, but Lapid is in it, “understand where Smutrich’s real preferences are.”
Meanwhile, former IDF spokesman Brigadier General Avi Banyahu was also interviewed for the program and spoke with Aryeh Eldad and Ben Caspit about the situation of the former chiefs of staff who chose to enter politics. “When the chief of staff takes off his uniform, he’s 20 inches shorter. “In the past, in parties where there were no primaries but a series of committees, they placed the chiefs of staff in positions they wanted and they made a force,” Benyahu explained. Toyed with the idea of being defense minister. Suddenly he found himself with 35 seats and thus he became the first candidate for prime minister.
Benyahu went on to claim that in politics “there are no shortcuts, Ganz and Ashkenazi came into politics with zero political experience and that is part of the result. They have fallen victim to a man who hates chiefs of staff and military personnel for years. The chiefs of staff and generals have gained a lot of experience, they know the sweet taste of peace over the bitter taste of war, they bring with them experience in understanding people, they are not wrong and please do not disqualify them. The most serious thing that happened to Ashkenazi and Ganz “When they no longer have the ability to hate, they have not learned to hate, they have not learned to sabotage and that is the price they paid.”