I honestly dont know or understand why the Right Wing, or much of it, has been protecting Benjamin Netanyahu and keeping his government fairly stable. He has been an utter failure as Prime Minister for the past 4 or so years, with this year being a total disaster.
Sometimes I hear claims like "there is nobody else - we should instead elect Yair Lapid? Netanyahu is much better than Lapid!"
While that may be debatable - under Netanyahu besides for all the terror attacks, 1400 Israelis were brutally massacred in one day, along with another 240 taken hostage, a war that is going for 10 months with no end in sight, and a PM regularly playing politics to keep his government in power. What exactly makes him better a better option than Lapid?
But ok, let's say, for argument's sake that he is.
Why is Lapid the other option? He isnt the next largest party, not even in any polls for the future. Why is the assumption that Lapid will be the next PM if Netanyahu is pushed out? And anyone else on the "Left" (including Benny Gantz, even though he isnt really Left) also doesnt really have the votes to become Prime Minister and push out Netanyahu, without forming a government with some right wing parties.
The Right Wing should not be protecting Netanyahu. The Right Wing should push Netanyahu out and support a different Right Winger for PM. I dont know who that should be - but I imagine it might be Nir Barkat, Yuli Edelstein, Itamar Ben Gvir, Naftali Bennett or Avigdor Lieberman or whoever the people on the Right choose, but the Right should be angriest at Netanyahu and pushing him out in favor of someone else on the Right, not protecting him.
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