With Netanyahu uninterested, and his media allies attacking Gantz, the illusory unity likely won’t materialize
When Benny Gantz joined the emergency government at the start of the war, opinion polls awarded him a record 40 seats in the next Knesset. But since his resignation from the government in June, the National Unity chair’s star has waned. Now polls show that Netanyahu’s Likud has retaken the lead, and that a political comeback by former prime minister Naftali Bennett could push Gantz’s party under 20 seats.
From this nadir, the idea of a unity government has regained appeal. Gantz’s National Unity party colleague, MK Matan Kahana, tells me so.
“We’re done with boycotts,” he explains. “We’re not boycotting anyone, including Netanyahu, and we’re calling for a national unity government.”
I ask him if this is an admission that quitting the government was a mistake, as the polls show.
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