Everyone is talking about Ohana - but the opposition holds a tiebreaker up its sleeve: "about a quarter of a million voters" | Ben Caspit
In his column, Ben Caspit assesses that the opposition led by Gadi Eisenkot has a tiebreaker: integrating about a quarter of a million Israelis abroad into the coalition formation process. According to him, Eisenkot would agree to a unity government with Netanyahu, and the threat of using this joker would force Netanyahu to cooperate.
Ben Caspit's column in the newspaper 'Maariv' analyzes the situation of the opposition led by Gadi Eisenkot after the elections. Caspit estimates that Eisenkot has more options for forming a government than it seems, and that his strongest card is a move to integrate about a quarter of a million Israelis abroad into the coalition formation process. According to him, most of them belong to the change bloc. Caspit writes on his personal responsibility that Eisenkot would agree to enter a genuine unity government with Benjamin Netanyahu, and that the threat of using this joker might turn Netanyahu into a responsible leader. The column ends with a warning that additional elections would be a decree the public cannot bear.