The 'Confusion Bloc' Circus Continues: Leadership Battles and Gimmicks in Cyprus

Welcome to the circus of the leaders of change and confusion: let's start with Naftali Bennett, who arrives for an interview and cannot say a simple thing – that he will recommend the head of the largest party in the bloc. Bennett stutters, twists, evades, gets tangled in his words, and in the end provides a strange answer.

No right-winger will be surprised here; the right-wing camp felt Bennett's megalomania on its own skin, but now it is turning against the left, and Gadi Eisenkot understands that he is in trouble. Suddenly it is inappropriate — when there was a left-wing government here with a prime minister with six mandates, no one on the left chirped.

So the group is getting lost. They cannot choose a head for the bloc but want to put forward a leader for the country. Yesterday, in a Channel 14 poll, Bennett's standing dropped to a new number — 7 mandates. Bennett knows six much better; after all, he formed a government that way.

Bennett's partners in the bloc are more worried than he is. He dragged Yair Lapid with him into a dubious adventure, and now both might end up below the electoral threshold. But the embarrassing event of the day is undoubtedly registered to the name of the Eisenkot campaign: they decided to hang election signs in Cyprus.

Yes, no less. It is not clear what the goal of this gimmick is, but what is certain is that it aroused the anger of the Cypriots, who do not understand how Israeli politics entered their landscape.

And that is the problem. When you strip away all the slogans and poses, only one ideology remains: "Anything but Bibi." And when that is all you have to offer, do not be surprised that when the microphone opens, all that comes out of you is stuttering and gimmicks.