[deleted] t1_jdo6tey wrote
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I am not Isreali either, but Gantz seems to be the most reasonable. He is not a leftist by any means, but he seems to be a moderate, and less corrupt.
galan-e t1_jdod5bv wrote
Israeli here. After last time gantz cooperated with Netanyahu, many don't trust him. He is also problematic on several issues, obviously none as severe as the current "judicial reform".
In any case the chances of an election soon are slim. Even if the protests work, they could back down without immediately losing power.
[deleted] t1_jdogma9 wrote
What are your views on Lapid?
TheLieDetectorBro t1_jdorqhp wrote
Another Israeli here. Lapid is a clown, but a 1,000,000 times better than the corrupted Bibi. He is also the second most popular candidate after Bibi by far, got 850K votes to Bibi's 1.1M last election.
But it's just personal opinions of course, many Israelis love Lapid and they have pretty good reasons for it.
[deleted] t1_jdothim wrote
Could Lapid have a path back to power, if for some reason Netenyahu resigns?
TheLieDetectorBro t1_jdou3yp wrote
For sure. If there are elections right now, there's a very good chance Lapid will end up as PM.
But assuming Netanyahu will ever resign is a stretch. He will only stop if his government will lose majority.
[deleted] t1_jdoufxh wrote
I know some members of his coalition are starting to break with him, could they resign, and cost him his majority?
TheLieDetectorBro t1_jdov9lu wrote
100%, but none of them talked about resigning from the government, just not agree to vote for his "Reform".
Could this start some sort of chain of events that will make them resign or Bibi to fire them? Maybe. But I doubt it. Though that will be extremely good!
[deleted] t1_jdoxjqf wrote
Agreed, that would be good, if they forced Bibi to fire them.
yevb t1_jdpxd59 wrote
Lapid is a populist and a lier, basically a lot like Bibi but without jail hovering over his head.
When Bibi leaves, we HAVE to introduce term limits on our PMs.
JewishMaghreb t1_jdq8iqf wrote
Which is what Lapid advocates for. He suggested limits to PM already a while ago. I think he’s the best option we have
yevb t1_jdrzxey wrote
Honestly, anything they say is meaningless. It only matters on the rare occasions they follow through.
Nileghi t1_jdql58z wrote
The Israeli version of Biden. In fact theyre carbon copies of each other, and all the rightwing criticism of Lapid mirrors the stuff thrown at Biden
Both Biden and Lapid are centrists who have diagnosed their country with the same problem and are attempting to produce the same solution to it. He's the most favorite pick of the american jewish democrat
[deleted] t1_jdqpq85 wrote
At any rate, Lapid at least does not want to wreck the Isreali Supreme Court.
TheLieDetectorBro t1_jdot0ff wrote
Ganz agreed to a coalition with Bibi despite literally everyone knowing Bibi will not honor his agreement with him... Which of course happened.
He also supported very controversial rules regarding military pensions, basically allowed illegal higher than allowed pensions by the law and made it legal after the fact.
And of course, he is kind of a goofball.
Still leagues better than Bibi, no question.
[deleted] t1_jdotei4 wrote
Would Gantz have been better off forming a coalation with some left parties?
TheLieDetectorBro t1_jdov2uj wrote
Well, if Ganz would not have agreed there could have been another election. And this was during peak Covid, when many were scared and believed stability is more important.
So that was Ganz's excuse, which you have to make up your own mind whether you believe him or just think he saw a way for himself to be PM after Bibi (They were supposed to have a 2-2 year rotation) and got blinded by it.
In hindsight though, the left-center parties were probably right and Ganz should have refused. We only got a shitty useless government which fell apart quickly and by now we know, Bibi is literally trying to destroy our Democracy.
[deleted] t1_jdoxnal wrote
I still remember the days when Rabin was PM back in the 90s, and peace seemed like such a real possablity....
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