Netanyahu’s Worst Nightmare Just Came True - So Where's The Final Blow?

Right, so Netanyahu’s bloc has lost its majority, both Arab-led alliances have now backed his rival, and yet he’s still sitting in the prime minister’s chair. The parties recommending former army chief Gadi Eisenkot hold 67 seats, according to Anadolu and The Times of Israel. Netanyahu’s outgoing bloc won 53. Those recommendations aren’t a government agreement, but they have created the possibility he needs his opponents to squander. And some of them seem determined to give him every assistance. Because Netanyahu doesn’t have to persuade these politicians to love him. He can remain in office while they fail to agree on his replacement. Every argument about whose support is acceptable gives the man they promised to remove another opportunity to stay put. Annoying isn’t quite the word for it. The Arab parties have offered cooperation that could finally finish him and yet parts of the opposition recoil from accepting those votes because of where they come from. Their racism is now Netanyahu’s last hope. So the question has now changed. We know there are enough seats outside Netanyahu’s outgoing bloc to make a replacement possible. The maths in theory should add up for Gadi Eisenkot. What we don’t know is whether the politicians holding them will accept the arrangement needed to deliver it.