Gantz has now destroyed his own credibility by joining Netanyahu’s coalition, so has Labor leader Amir Peretz. Lapid remains the only leader of a major party on the center-left. Netanyahu has no choice but to take him on. But while Lapid’s inexperience and dilettantism gives Netanyahu ample ammunition against the former chat-show host and columnist, it also creates a dilemma for him. Attacking Lapid with all guns blazing increases his popularity in the anti-Netanyahu camp, where many have had trouble taking Lapid seriously. Lapid, unlike Gantz, Gabbay and Herzog, is also prepared to follow Netanyahu into the mud.
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Avi Gabbay announces his departure from politics, will quit Labor
Labor chief Avi Gabbay announces he will not run in the next election, and will leave politics.
Israel‘s Labor Chief Gabbay Announces He Won‘t Seek Reelection
Nonetheless, Gabbay said he is not leaving the party and intends to reserve the No. 2 spot on the party‘s slate, which had been occupied by Tal Rousso, for himself in the next election.
Will Israel‘s Left Wing Form an Alliance Ahead of the New Election? First, Heads Need to Roll
„The present need calls for a big and significant left-wing bloc alongside the center,“ said Zandberg, repeating a similar call she made before the last election, which Gabbay rejected after polls held by both parties at the time showed a merger wouldn‘t increase their total number of seats.
Zandberg‘s rushed proposal also signals to left-wing voters that if such a union never comes, the fault would rest with Labor.
Other Labor member do not support a union with Meretz. „In the Labor Party‘s current condition, we need to join Kahol Lavan and run on a joint slate,“ said one of the party‘s lawmakers.
Labor‘s Gabbay ‚Won‘t Say‘ He Wouldn‘t Join a Netanyahu Government After Israel‘s Election
‚You never know which circumstances you‘ll find yourself in,‘ party leader tells Channel 12, arguing he hadn‘t lied to his voters in holding coalition talks with the premier
The collapse of Labor is the most remarkable part of the recent polling, with current leader Avi Gabbay, leading the party into a perpetual freefall that has yet to stop. Former Labor partner Hatnuah is below the electoral threshold too
Netanyahu’s legal woes should be a boon for Israel’s left, but it’s busy imploding
Labor in 2017 named as its leader Avi Gabbay, a millionaire who made his money at the helm of Israel’s largest telecom provider.
Just a year earlier, Gabbay had been a minister in Netanyahu’s cabinet for a small centrist party he had helped found. Gabbay’s appointment as Labor’s leader has turned off many in that party, who are now calling for his removal.
In Israel, There‘s No Left. There‘s Only a Right in Different Forms
What is going on in our political system ahead of the upcoming election can be described like this: Right A versus Right B, a split in Right C, a possible merger in Right D, and a new glimmer of hope in Right E.
Meretz and the Joint List, the only Israeli left there is, one small and fading and the other ostracized and excluded, and both without any influence, look on from the other side of the fence. And still people say that Israel is “polarized,” that we’re this close to civil war breaking out. It’s hard to think of anything more ridiculous.
Gabbay ends Zionist Union partnership with Livni, without warning her in advance
In humiliating announcement, as Livni looks on and cameras roll, Labor chairman questions Hatnua head’s loyalty, says the two have failed to maintain ‘mutual support’
Dramatic Split in Israeli Left as Labor Party Breaks Away From Tzipi Livni
A Labor lawmaker, who asked to remain anonymous, said that „time will tell whether dismantling Zionist Union was a smart move. But it shouldn‘t have been done as a public humiliation to Livni.“
A senior source in Livni‘s Hatnuah party said that she „thwarted a split in the Labor Party last week.“
He Only Knows How to Incite
There is no limit to his demagoguery. As if this were the story; as if civil rights were conditioned on loyalty tests.
The opposition leaders in general, and Labor chairman Avi Gabbay in particular, repeatedly fall into the traps Netanyahu sets for them, allowing him to dictate the public agenda while they participate in the discourse of incitement. Instead of attacking Netanyahu for the nation-state law, the leader of the opposition finds himself babbling about the right of return, as if this is the most burning issue now.