COVID, Anarchy Making Israelis Think Maybe 5th Elections Wouldn’t Have Been So Bad After All

Despite mainstream media that cheerlead Bennett’s government simply because he isn’t Netanyahu.

Lod, February 16 – A historically unpopular prime minister, a paucity of fulfilled campaign promises, critical compromises that betrayed a core electoral constituency, incompetence in handling the ongoing pandemic, foreign policy missteps, cementing unelected bureaucrats in positions of power that distort democracy, and rewarding violent lawbreakers who undermine governance and Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland, among other failures, has a growing number of citizens wondering whether they might have been better off in the endless cycle of parliamentary elections that preceded the formation of the current coalition government, polls indicate.

Surveys showing that less than a twentieth of the electorate support Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his Yamina Party, which leads a government that comprises a a diverse set of Knesset factions – and includes the Arab party Ra’am, a first for any Israeli government. Bennett’s decisions, as well as those of his Number Two in the party, Minister of the Interior Ayelet Shaked, and other coalition partners, have alienated the right-wing voters whose voices he entered to Knesset to represent, as the delicate arrangement depends on keeping Islamist-backed and left-wing members without whom the government would fall. Skyrocketing COVID infection statistics have compounded the debacle, even as unelected appointees engage in wanton favoritism to fill key posts and obstruct justice on several high-profile scandals. Public opinion, once cautiously optimistic, now sees the Frankenstein’s monster of the current coalition as worse than even the stagnant quagmire of former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, whose twelve-year reign through multiple terms many saw as an important obstacle in addressing multiple core national issues – and whose removal formed a central element of the rationale for the current coalition. Now, however, Bennett’s presiding over lack of transparency and justice in combating Arab violence among the Bedouin and in mixed cities; his failure to wrest control of important institutions from unelected officials and restore power to the people; and his bumbling efforts to articulate a coherent policy on any front, have resulted in an unprecedented nadir in popularity for a sitting prime minister, even worse than Ehud Olmert in the aftermath of the Second Lebanon War – despite mainstream media that cheerlead Bennett’s government simply because he isn’t Netanyahu, just months after treating Bennett and his party as modern-day Mussolinis before his machinations to oust Bibi.

Seventy to eighty percent of respondents in several polls over the last six days have agreed with the statement, “I would prefer the inconclusive election-to-election reality we had under Netanyahu to the current situation.”

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