Lieberman: If I do this, I lose two seats, Bennett loses four
Chairman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman commented on the leadership struggle within the camp of opponents of Netanyahu and explained why at the current stage he does not intend to announce…
Assessment
Lieberman is publicly calculating the electoral cost of endorsing Gadi Eisenkot for prime minister, and he puts the price at two mandates for his own party and four for Bennett's. The math is blunt: backing Eisenkot could shrink the anti-Netanyahu bloc rather than strengthen it. That admission reveals how fragile the coalition of rivals is, and why each leader is waiting for someone else to make the first move. The question now is whether any of them can afford to act on principle when the numbers say otherwise.