The right-wing camp is in turmoil, but not only due to the missed opportunities, the lack of decision-making in the election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to form a government, and the transfer of responsibility to the Left.
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The Right has been through this before. It happened in 2016, in 1999, and many times before that, when the people voted and sent the national camp to the Opposition.
There is something more to it this time. The atmosphere seems eerily similar to that which preceded the 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
Nobody would have expected back then that such a baseless, unnecessary event would originate from the most ardent of right-wingers. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shocked the political echelon with his political U-turn and went ahead with the disengagement
Like then, we are seeing personal motives trump any other consideration. Back then, Sharon wanted to avoid being investigated, and now Yamina leader Naftali Bennett has set his eyes on the premiership.
It was clear back in 2005 that disengaging from Gaza would not achieve any of the political goals that leaders, with their empty slogans, claimed it would. The same is true today. The poetic statements that those who fought side by side in the military can also sit side by side in government are devoid of meaning.
The same is true of the media. In 2005, every single outlet mobilized to demand the evacuation of Gush Katif, and anyone who dared speak out against it was immediately condemned and silenced. Likud Knesset members who opposed the plan were deemed "rebels." Similarly, the media's current quest to delegitimize Yamina MK Amichai Chikli, who opposes forming a coalition with the Left, has crossed all lines.
The government that is currently being formed might be new, but the tricks it uses are all in the playbook.
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