Israel before the election

In Israel it is part of everyday politics that new parties are built from the ground and existing split or merge with others. The "big bang in the right," as Israeli media called the foundation of a great conservative-nationalist-populist-friendly settler movement of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman, is now but a mystery. What the prime minister, who has led since the last election four years ago almost constantly in the polls considering moved suddenly, take the vessel to the swings, instead it safe to travel to the port? Yes, the country is easier to govern if there are fewer parties.And Netanyahu is in coalition negotiations will be less vulnerable to blackmail when a partner before the elections binds to take afterwards. But it does not look as if the maneuver to bring the right wing an overall increase in votes. And if Lieberman now practically jumps to second place of the super-Likud, which is a kind of appointment to Netanyahu's successor. With an at home and abroad such controversial figure in such a prominent place, a party that wants to be supportive attitude and to win a part of the broad middle, but does not live. Netanyahu would prove to himself and his country a better service if he would reach out for the elections to the sensor center parties, rather than to chain right now.