If you are shaking your head and complaining about our own election process, try being an Israeli and shlepping to the polls on March 2nd, for the third time within a 12 month period, to vote yet again in another general election. The prior ones last April 9th and September 17th both failed to form a majority coalition. Good luck this time!
Likud, under current Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Blue and White party, with Benny Gantz at its helm, will fight this one out again in order to form a majority coalition. Israelis don’t vote, as we do, for a specific candidate. They vote for a party, of which they have many and with proportional representation, a coalition is formed with like minded ones banding together. The battle is to form a majority coalition and to stick together when it comes time to pass legislation in the Knesset. That’s when they start to wheel and deal. Bibi, being interviewed this past weekend by Mark Levin, put it very succinctly, that the Blue and White is, “a leftist party in disguise….they pretend to be a center-right party.” He warned that the Blue and White would junk Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan which is highly supportive of Israel’s interests and cave in to the Palestinians who have turned down the plan.
Consider then, that Trump looks like he’ll be spending another 4 years in the White House. And without a doubt, Israel has never prospered more than they have under this friendly administration. However, Gantz has Ronen Tzur, his senior Israeli adviser, who recently referred to Trump as another Hitler and claimed that our president colluded with Putin. Throw in another Gantz consultant, this one an American, Joel Benenson, formerly working under Obama, Hillary and Mario Cuomo, and we’ve got to then anticipate that his Blue and White party and their coalition with the Leftist ones would attempt to destroy the positive relationship that Israel now has with the United States. That would be a disaster. Israelis and their American supporters have got to finally come to the conclusion that no matter what faults Netanyahu may have, his positive performance as Israel’s leader over the years indicates that he must remain as Prime Minister to keep Israel as the light to all nations.
