How do internal differences bring the Zionist cabinet to its knees?

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, with More than one hundred and sixty days have passed since the Zionist regime invaded the Gaza Strip, the trend of developments shows the increase of differences within Netanyahu’s coalition cabinet in the Israeli political sphere.

1. Saar’s separation from Gantz and the increase of cabinet complications

Last Tuesday (March 12) Gideon Saar, leader The center-right New Hope party, which had formed a coalition with Benny Gantz under the title of Internal Unity since July 2022, withdrew from this coalition and demanded membership in Israel’s war cabinet. Saar, who was a member of the Likud party until 2020, left this party due to differences with Netanyahu and cooperated with Netanyahu’s opponents during this time.

With the withdrawal of Gideon Saar from the Benny Gantz coalition, the number of seats under his leadership decreased from 12 to 8 seats. This development primarily shows the increase of differences within Netanyahu’s cabinet. Saar has requested to join the war cabinet, but Saar’s entry into this cabinet, which has only 3 members, is in an aura of ambiguity, because on the one hand, Gantz is against the entry of new people into this cabinet, and in October 2023, this cabinet will remain limited to only 3. announced Nafar as a condition for his entry into the war cabinet and it was accepted by Benjamin Netanyahu.

As a result, the membership of new people in the three-person war cabinet will either pass through Gantz’s approval or will be possible with Gantz’s removal from the cabinet. After Saar’s departure from the internal unity coalition, Gantz opposed his entry into the war cabinet and said that there is no need for reform and change in this cabinet.

If Saar gets the opportunity to be in the war cabinet, the displeasure of Ben Guer and Asmutarich will obviously increase because they also wanted to be members of this cabinet. On the other hand, if Saar fails to enter the war cabinet, this issue will have other consequences; Among other things, Saar may leave the emergency cabinet in protest and return to the opposition, or he may become the third member of the emergency cabinet, along with Smutrich and Ben Guer, who opposes the powers of the war cabinet. In both cases, the differences within the cabinet will intensify and political cohesion will be lost more than before.

2. Decreasing trust in the government

The second most important event that we have seen in recent months is the decrease of trust in Netanyahu’s cabinet in the Zionist regime. According to the survey of the Israel Democracy Institute, the level of trust in the cabinet, which was 28% in June 2023 (July 1402), dropped by 5% to 23% at the end of December 2023 (December 1402). Also, the level of trust in the Knesset decreased by 4% and reached 19% from 24%. Not only has he not recovered from the 5 months of the war, but his unpopularity crisis has also intensified. Polls show that between 65 and 70 percent of participants want to hold early elections in Israel, and this situation shows that the strategy of prolonging the war has not been able to restore the lost water for Netanyahu.

On the other hand, some analysts believe that Saar’s separation from Gantz’s coalition, although it is considered a split in Netanyahu’s opposition camp and in this sense is good news for Bibi, but it has negative consequences for him in two ways. Will have; First, the split in the existing coalitions shows that the magic of the war in Israel has ended and the Israeli political sphere is returning to its normal days; Returning to the normal phase means that the avalanche of problems for Netanyahu will be set in motion; On the one hand, protests against him are expected to gradually fill the streets, and on the other hand, fact-finding committees will start working to investigate the failure of October 7, 2023.

3. Disagreement over ceasefire negotiations

The process of negotiations also partly shows the emergence of differences between different parts of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition cabinet; On the one hand, radical rightists such as Smotrich and Ben Guer generally reject negotiations with Hamas and any pause in the war and demand the complete defeat of this group, but because they are not part of the war cabinet, they have not been able to turn this demand into policy. But the differences are not limited to this point, and there are many differences within the war cabinet over the authority of the negotiating team. To negotiate a 6-week truce as the first phase of a permanent truce and exchange 42 Israeli prisoners for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli negotiating team headed by Mossad chief David Barane now needs more powers. Israeli War Minister Gantz and Gallant want to hand over more powers to the negotiating team, but Netanyahu has postponed talks on this issue until now. In this way, differences have arisen within the three-person cabinet over the ceasefire negotiations, and this gap is increasing.

Gantz’s recent trip to America and then Britain is also one of the topics that It shows the internal differences of Netanyahu’s cabinet; Gantz has become the main contender for prime ministership after Netanyahu, and Joe Biden’s government and Israel’s European allies are very interested in his prime ministership. In response to his uncoordinated visit, Netanyahu tried to prevent the allocation of government facilities to Gantz and the cooperation of the embassies of the Zionist regime in the United States and Britain with him, thus telling him that Israel has only one prime minister. As a result, it can be said that it seems unlikely that the partnership between Gantz and Netanyahu in the form of a war cabinet will last for a long time. =”clearfix” class=”clearfix”/>