Bennett, Liberman risk splitting the anti-Netanyahu camp over who leads it - opinion

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• 01Bennett learned the importance of loyalty the hard way in 2021, when two members of his Yamina Party, Amichai Chikli and Idit Silman, broke ranks and helped bring down his government.
• 02That means that if the combined list wins, say, 13 seats, Bennett may ultimately arrive at coalition negotiations as the leader of a faction with only seven or eight MKs – potentially smaller even than Liberman’s.
• 03In 2021, he became prime minister with just six Knesset seats even though Lapid had won 17.
• 04Liberman, for example, could make the same argument Bennett made in 2021: I am the leader of a right-wing party.
• 05Seeing this happen would require an extraordinary amount of chutzpah from Bennett and Liberman, especially after the failure of the 2021 government.
• 06Bennett was asked about this in a comprehensive Channel 12 interview this past week.
• 07His more realistic target is the roughly 10 percent of voters who remain undecided, many of them former right-wing voters who have not yet decided whether to support an opposition party, return to the Netanyahu bloc, or simply stay home.