From a national perspective, the upcoming general election is frightening. The Zionist bloc in Israeli society is on the precipice of defeat. The Left is united in its unbridled urge to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Thus a clear minority of the population – unified by a single desire while being pushed along by two MKs from the back benches, Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh – is disseminating fear, confusion and a lack of direction among the Zionist majority. Consequently, it could realistically seize power a month and a half from now, making Benny Gantz the next prime minister.
The fact that a mainstream intellectual like author Haim Be'er dares refer to such a large group of Israelis as "a benign tumor that has become a malignant tumor," needs to raise alarm bells. This statement, of course, made him a darling of the media, which has treated him with kid gloves.
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On the other hand, a simple comment by Education Minister Rafi Peretz – whose children are being raised in a healthy and natural manner – is being turned into an orchestrated campaign of grief, with black ribbons on the arms of small children on their way to school. Expect any new education minister under Gantz to launch a re-education campaign in religious schools. Life under the irrepressible left-wing steamroller will be far scarier. The "anyone but Netanyahu" contingent takes center stage wherever and whenever the old elites gather, whether it is a memorial service for a fallen hero or the premier of another propaganda movie.
The political situation on the religious right, which has split into two camps – at the very least – doesn't bode well for the right-wing bloc. We can no longer tell what's better for the Right from an electoral perspective because before anything else it must secure the right-wing bloc a victory with 61 seats. Anything less would mean another paralyzing draw; or a Gantz-led government that would pull any willing right-wing faction into the tent of the post-Zionist Left, which will be propped up by the Joint Arab List. These days, the Left labels statements such as Peretz's "incitement," even though we can already see Tibi's fingerprints allover MK Avi Nissenkorn's current circus. He is openly threatening MK Yoaz Hendel, while Odeh mocks the prime minister.
On the other hand, there are those on the Right who believe the two-way split – Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked on one side; Bezalel Smotrich, Peretz and Itamar Ben-Gvir on the other – provides the best chance for the Right on Election Day. According to this assessment, if Bennett and Shaked were to technically join the Likud, the Likud's situation wouldn't change at all, and they wouldn't help the party get more votes. However, a separate ticket for their New Right party, despite the giant risk involved, gives them a decent chance to scrounge enough right-wing votes from Avigdor Lieberman and Yair Lapid – voters who are just beginning to internalize the catastrophe of another left-wing government, but will never vote Likud.
What's clear is that the Left, with a tailwind of support from the media and judiciary, is plowing ahead to victory while the Right is mired in indolence and self-pity.
