1. "What will happen now?" many people walking or jogging alongside me on Tel Aviv's seaside promenade asked me yesterday. Indeed,
the election resultshave deepened both the divisions and the sense of vulnerability among supporters of the rival political camps who turned out in large numbers to vote. And now it is President Isaac Herzog's turn to decide which direction Israel will take. Allow me to say, with all due humility, and I mean this with the utmost seriousness: If Herzog proposes the formation of a unity government, it would constitute an outright abuse of the authority entrusted to him.Mr. President, have you learned nothing from the previous occasions when Netanyahu lied to and deceived his political partners who signed rotation agreements with him, including Benny Gantz twice, Yair Lapid, Tzipi Livni and Shaul Mofaz? They trusted him, only to find themselves pushed out of government under his "use and discard" approach.
How ironic that almost every politician who has served alongside Netanyahu over the years has earned that dubious distinction. Beyond that, surely you will agree that after four years of abysmal performance by an entirely right-wing government, more than...