Alternatives To Bibi Almost As Credible As ‘Antizionism Isn’t Antisemitic’

Almost as funny as a terrorist suggesting he targets Jewish children on buses because he wants the best for them.

Jerusalem, December 29 – A deeply unpopular yet somehow politically resilient Israeli premier continues to figure atop public opinion polls as the most likely to form the country’s next government following elections this coming spring, a fact that analysts attribute to the lack of anyone else in Israeli politics whom voters will take at least as seriously as any thinking person believes opposition to the existence of the world’s only Jewish state indicates no animus toward Jews.

Several commentators observed this week and last, following confirmation that the Knesset will, in fact, dissolve itself and new parliamentary elections will take place in late March, that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will likely emerge from the contest with the largest single bloc of lawmakers and the surest path to a majority coalition of 61 – not because the scandal-ridden, embattled premier has articulated a compelling vision, or proffered forceful charisma, that swayed a large plurality of the electorate to entrust him with the helm yet again, but because the fragmented, rudderless smattering of alternatives available to that electorate carry almost, but not quite, as much credibility with Israeli voters as the notion that antizionism does not represent merely a manifestation of antisemitism.

“It appears that for a significant chunk of Israelis,” remarked radio and online commentator Yisrael HaRishona, “the clown show that is the anti-Bibi ‘movement,’ for lack of better term, scores rather abysmally on the credibility and competence scales. Few, if any, of those with ambitions to supplant him can persuade an increasingly skeptical polity that they, alone, possess the gravitas, wisdom, and courage to repair the damage Netanyahu has wrought in every facet of Israeli life, with specifics oddly hard to pin down on that last point. The public finds it easier to accept that opposition to Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland stems from some motive other that hatred or Jews than to accept that any one of this bunch of contradictory messes, let alone any of them above the others, has anything to offer them in terms of leadership.”

“Other than a small cadre of hardcore loyalists, even right-wingers are sick of Netanyahu,” acknowledged activist Loye Uman. “Hyperbole aside, he’s accomplished precious little of anything like a right-wing agenda. But he’s in there by sheer inertia, and the alternatives are a joke. Almost as funny as a terrorist suggesting he targets Jewish children on buses because he wants the best for them.”

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