Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to change the views of the Zionists after 5 months of war

according to the international group Tasnim news, while The war between the Zionist regime and the Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip is about to enter the sixth consecutive month, it seems that Netanyahu’s strategy to distance the public opinion of the Zionist community from the feeling of the irreparable defeat of October 7th has not been fruitful.

The latest Maariv newspaper poll shows that if early elections are held in Israel, the ruling Likud party will win only 18 seats. Against the main rival of this right-wing party, which is a centrist coalition led by Benny Gantz, it will win 41 seats.

Such a result in a real election would mean a stunning victory for Netanyahu’s opponents. This is because it has been 32 years since the last time a single party won more than 40 seats in the Israeli parliamentary elections. In 1992, the Labor Party led by Yitzhak Rabin won 44 seats in the Israeli parliament. Israel), ” src=”https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1402/12/11/14021211130751365295093310.png”/>

The huge difference of 23 seats between the Likud party and the Gantz coalition was formed while in the last election of the Zionist regime which was held in November 2022, the Likud party won 32 seats and the internal unity coalition won only 12 seats.

The moderate Yesh Atid party, led by Yair Lapid, the former prime minister, won 12 seats in this survey and remained in third place. Our House of Israel party, led by Avigdor Lieberman, a former ally of Netanyahu who has joined Bibi’s opposition since 2019, won 10 seats.

Shas religious party led by Aryeh Darei also won 10 seats without any change compared to the previous poll. The far-right Jewish Power party, led by Itamar Ben Goyer, also won nine seats. Israel’s other religious party, the United Torah Judaism, has reached 6 seats with a relative decline in this poll. The Arab Joint List) has also won 5 seats without any change, and the left-wing Merts party, which failed to enter the Knesset in the last election, has also won 5 seats. The Arab Party of Ram, led by Mansour Abbas, also won 4 seats and barely passed the threshold of 3.25%. They are not allowed to enter the Knesset because they are under the quota. The far-right religious Zionist party, led by current finance minister Betsalel Smutrich, won only 2.8 percent of the vote. This should probably be seen as the continuation of the significant decline of coalition parties aligned with Netanyahu. On the other hand, the old Labor Party failed to guarantee its presence in the parliament with 2.5%, and the nationalist Arab Balad party also got 1.7% of the votes.

In this way, it can be said that the two major events of 2023, namely the widespread public protests against the reforms of the Supreme Court and the October 7th War, have led to a political earthquake in the Israeli political sphere.

Netanyahu’s coalition cabinet, which won 64 seats in the last election, if the elections are renewed By losing more than 20 seats, it only gets 43 seats. In contrast to the group of parties present in the previous coalition cabinet (all parties opposed to Netanyahu, except for the Arab Coalition of His God – Taal) will gain 72 seats.

Question Another important part of this survey of the participants was about the most suitable option for the prime ministership. According to the opinion of the respondents, Benny Gantz managed to get 50% of the votes of the participants, while Netanyahu got only 33% of the votes, and 17% chose the “don’t know” option. In the meantime, even 22% of the people who have declared to vote for the Likud party have considered Gantz to be a better choice for prime minister compared to Netanyahu, and 17% of the Likud supporters have said that neither of these two people is suitable. They are not prime ministers.

Thus the strategy of prolonging the war so far For Netanyahu, there has been no tangible achievement. In recent weeks, Netanyahu has spoken several times about “a complete victory in Gaza in the next few weeks” and tried to influence public opinion in the occupied Palestinian society with such statements, but the results of the polls show that He has not been able to reduce the legitimacy and popularity crisis of himself and the Likud party in this way.

Various polls show The desire to hold early elections in the Zionist society is above 60% and the only difference is the time of holding these elections. A large group believes that Netanyahu should resign immediately and elections should be held, and the second group considers 3 months after the end of the war to be a good time to hold elections.

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