The more important question to ask is:
If say likud comes to power tomorrow or in two years, will there be any significant difference to the most pressing issues Israel is facing?
Unfortunately, the fact is that the problems that are afflicting Israel today have been around for the 12 years of likud rule and bibi did not lift a finger to fix any of them.
He talks big but in maaasim he was an efes.
Most of the good bibi did was not from his stint as pm but as finance minister where almost 20 years on as a direct result of bibi’s initiatives which were very unpopular at the time – Israel is an economic powerhouse that is able to withstand major global economic upheavals.
But as pm?
Here is a list of problems that bibi only paid lip service to:
1) Israeli soldiers’ lives are wasted and put in danger due to
ridiculous rules of engagement.
2)Israel is a terribly expensive place to live. E.g. Will they ever release land to build on thereby boosting supply and lowering or at least halting the rise in housing costs?
3)The bedouins rule the Negev making the lives of Jews who live there unimaginably miserable
4)Bagatz and the d.a.’s office are corrupt and undermine any semblance of democracy Israel claims to have.
5) The police abuse their power and are useless in terms of protecting Israel’s citizens.
6) The Israeli Arabs are armed to the hilt with tens of thousands of weapons being stolen off army bases yearly. And they basically live in states within the state. Last week’s attacks was the beginning of this ticking for years time bomb being set off.
7)Last year’s riots in Lod, Akko, Yaffo etc showed that when push comes to shove Israeli citizens lives are as hefker as they were in Russia under the czars if not worse.
The list of bibi’s failures goes on and on.
Is Bennet really any worse? The day care subsidy law is rough. But most of the differences under Bennet are cosmetic and ego based.
Yeah, if you get your Jewish identity from the state of Israel then indeed have a government that doesn’t really view Israel as a Jewish state but as a state of all it’s citizens than the current government is painful and this is hard for many masorati Jews in Israel, but for those who never subscribed to the reishit tzemichat geulateinu pablum – if you can live in America you can live under a non Jewish government in Israel.
Iran? Khaboob, the forces enabling Iran to get nukes are bigger than any Israeli politician. There is not much bibi can do about it.
So tachliss, b’gadol, lmai nafka mina?