"We're dealing with a well-oiled machine," Yamina head Naftali Bennett said of opponents of the left-wing government, Sunday. "Dear public, now is your time to enlist, support, and not to remain a silent majority."
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This quote best expresses the magnitude of Bennett's recent disconnect from reality.
After all, we have the TV studios, commentators, and Twitter warriors to thank for this government. They've been pushing for it with all their might, concealing its disadvantages and providing public relations for it from morning to night. It's referred to as a "pro-change" government or a "unity" government. In no way is this a leftist government. It can't be because that would wake up right-wing voters, who could still oppose the despicable act being carried out under their noses, thereby harming the delicate souls of Yamina's Ayelet Shaked and Nir Orbach, who may still ruin things for everyone.
Right-wing stomachs turn at Bennett's remarks. Every single word in his speech was like a punch in the gut to those who believed him. Ever since he entered politics, Bennett made sure to surround himself with members of the Right, ideologues, members of the religious Zionist sector, and supporters of Judea and Samaria. None of them joined Bennett because he promised them political stability or believed his life's purpose was to prevent another election. They did so because they thought he was a man of the Right.
Making the prevention of another election the principal thing the country is founded on as if this was his party's central message in the last campaign, is an inversion of the truth. A more central campaign promise, for example, was that Yamina would not join a government with Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid. Or Ra'am.
The same was true of presenting the government as a unity government. A 42-mandate coalition in which the Left, including the radical Left, has 42 mandates, and the Right has 12 can be called a lot of things, but a "unity" government is not one of them. Nor can a government that boycotts around one million traditional voters and hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox voters be referred to as a "pro-change" or "reconciliation" government.
When its ideology went bankrupt, the Left tried for years to get back in power. Netanyahu prevented them from fulfilling their desires. Having failed to oust him on their own, forces from the Right who fail to understand the magnitude of the hour, the size of the rift they are creating, and the enormous detriment to the public that elected them - which constitutes a solid majority of Israel's citizens - they are causing, are now coming to their aid.
Bennett is lucky the majority has remained silent. The Left's well-oiled machine, which has been waiting for this moment with bated breath, has succeeded in confusing him with laundered words and superficial charm. If the majority would shout, its cries would be heard perfectly well by Bennett and his fellow party members.
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