This is not how you change a government: the opposition is falling apart just before the elections
Not only is the opposition failing to fulfill its role in the parliamentary arena, its conduct makes it a laughingstock.
There is almost no condemnation, expression of contempt, or dismissal that has not been attached to the current government and the coalition that maintains its survival. Most of them are true and justified, but the government is not the only target for condemnation. There is also the opposition. Not only is this opposition failing to fulfill its role in the parliamentary arena in a democratic state, its conduct makes it a laughingstock.
The central failure in the conduct of the current opposition in the face of a failing government that is exposed to criticism is the division and rift prevailing in its camp. The hostility between the heads of the parties opposing the government and aspiring to replace it is not hidden. A real opposition is supposed to maintain coordination and cooperation between its components, and that is not happening here.
Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Yair Golan, and Avigdor Lieberman have not held a productive meeting among themselves with the goal of consulting, planning, agreeing on a decision, a move, a joint statement against the government, or a joint condemnation of ministers such as Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. It seems that the existence of such an acceptable and useful meeting did not even cross their minds.
Worse than that, the heads of the parties opposing the Benjamin Netanyahu government are sometimes busy with barbed statements toward one another, an impolite habit that only emphasizes what distances and separates them. This is not an opposition in its practical and familiar sense in democratic countries. This is not an opposition that will achieve its goal, its mission — changing the government in Israel.
If the heads of the opposition parties in Israel do not wake up and begin a joint effort to unite into a significant and effective opposition factor, one can estimate what the results of the upcoming Knesset elections will be — results that Eisenkot, Bennett, Lapid, Golan, and Lieberman will tear their hair out over.
