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Netanyahu's post-election silence has the opposition imploding - analysis
[JPost] - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surprised many by remaining almost completely silent for a full week after the March 23 election. Until a tweet attacking Blue and White leader Benny Gantz on Tuesday afternoon, Netanyahu made no public appearances and posted nothing political, to the point that Gantz had accused him of entering a bunker. It was a palpable contrast, following three months of intense campaigning and weeks of daily interviews with countless media outlets. But just like Netanyahu's decision to talk so much during the campaign was strategic, so have been his sounds of silence. The less Netanyahu talks, the less the camp trying to replace him is reminded of the urgency of their task at hand. If that is Netanyahu's strategy, it certainly appears to be working. While he quietly calculates his moves for the fateful days ahead, the anti-Netanyahu camp is talking way too much and imploding at the worst possible time. The advantage of "winner takes all" is stability - there is always a winner. The advantage of proportional representation (besides the fact that marginal groups form their own party instead of taking over a major one) is (since nobody gets majority of votes - modern societies are heterogeneous with spectrum of interests) there has to be coalition negotiations. That is, you can fool 51% of the voters - but you can't fool fellow professional politicians. I shudder to think: if we had American style "winner takes all", we could've gotten a monkey like Yair Lapid, or Gideon Sa'ar as a PM. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-03-31 |
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