[IsraelTimes] Right-wing voters are famously faithful to their camp’s leader, giving Netanyahu room to maneuver, compromise, and live to fight another dayThe center-left has a loyalty problem. Not, as the right likes to claim around election time, regarding Jewish values or the nation’s interests. It is disloyal to itself.
Consider the phenomenal loyalty Netanyahu commands from his voters. He is no stickler for right-wing policies or ideologies. In the seven months since the swearing-in of the 35th Government, relatively few major right-wing policy demands have been realized. Netanyahu’s supporters claim that’s because of the deadlocked "unity" government and the de facto veto Blue and White has over, for example, judicial reform or the legalization of wildcat West Bank outposts. But that doesn’t explain why relatively few major right-wing policy demands have advanced at any point in the 11 consecutive years that Netanyahu has now been prime minister. Indeed, he is often excoriated on the right for failing to reform the judicial appointments process, for holding back settlement construction and for seeming to consistently prefer left-leaning coalition partners to right-leaning ones — Labor’s Ehud Barak in 2009, Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni in 2013, and so on.