One does not need a crystal ball or a sixth sense to predict the outcome of the March 2 elections. All one needs is some common sense, a clear mind, and a calculator to know that the next government is going to comprise members of the Left, Post-Zionistic Left and anti-Zionistic lawmakers from the Arabic parties to support the show from planum gallery. The most probable scenario is that we are headed toward one of the most leftist governments in Israel's history – installed in power by mostly right-leaning voters.
In his speech this week, Shar leader Aryeh Deri explained that all deals between Blue and White, Yisrael Beytenu, and the Labor-Gesher-Meretz alliance were signed and sealed long ago away from the public eye, adding that this was not "a political assumption", but actual, factual information.
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Reality suggests that Deri is correct. When MK Yoaz Hendel, Blue and White's token rightist, dared to state his opinion about potential annexation under the Trump administration's peace plan, Joint Arab List MK Ahmad Tibi called him to order in an explicit, humiliating threat, along the lines of, "Want my support? You better behave." Hendel did as he was told.
Those who realized that Blue and White's rightist fig leaves are nothing but an aesthetic decoration, but think that the growing post-Zionist leftist government would be neutralized by three former IDF chiefs and Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Lieberman, should think again. A military past, illustrious as it may be, guarantees nothing, let alone hawkish right-wing politics. If anything, history has proven the opposite.
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz's remarks when he was IDF chief – essentially admitting the IDF risked the lives of Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza so as not to harm Palestinians – echo those of former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Democratic Union MK Yair Golan. Former IDF chief Moshe Ya'alon of Blue and White enjoys, for some reason, an air of political integrity, but he is not guided by principals. Since he resigned as defense minister in 2016 Ya'alon has been driven by one principle only: Revenge.
As for Lieberman, he has proved he is a political chameleon, dedicated to only one thing – securing Knesset seats at all cost. While his party was dying, he reinvented himself, and the his usual campaign slogan of "Death penalty for Arabs" has been replaced with "Better Tibi than Bibi."
But the best proof for Deri's claim is pinned in the simple fact that not one of Blue and White captains or Lieberman has bothered to deny the collaboration with the Joint Arab List. Moreover, it stands to reason that if this allegation was baseless, an across-the-board denial of this nature would dominate the two parties' campaigns.
The fact that an immense Right-voting public is about to vicariously elect lawmakers who oppose the existence of a Jewish state, hurts tenfold in this historic and fatal moment. Applying sovereignty and extending Israel's legitimate borders is a dream most in the Israeli public has been longing for. This dream will come to life only after the elections, and only with a real right-wing government, at the helm, chaired by the one person who paved the way to acknowledging this vision.
But according to recent surveys, the more likely scenario is that in which right-wing voters are about to leave this historic moment to the likes of Meretz lawmakers Tamar Zandberg and Nitzan Horowitz, Labor parliamentarian Merav Michaeli, and Joint Arab List MKs Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh.
