“With Kahlon and Lapid, we’ll be able to bring down Netanyahu next time,” a senior member of the Zionist Camp told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity July 3. This seasoned political wolf believes that the political system is ready to spew out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and in his opinion, all that is needed is to transfer a few mandates from the right-wing bloc to the left.

This left-wing politician counts Finance Minister and Kulanu Party Chairman Moshe Kahlon in the left-wing camp. And that is a mistake. True, Kahlon, a former Likud member, is the social-justice banner carrier in the government. True, the lion’s share of voters for Kahlon are moderate right-wingers — who many people call “the old-time Likud.” It is also true that Kahlon never forgave Netanyahu for causing him to leave the Likud in October 2014. Like former Likud Ministers Moshe Ya’alon and Gideon Saar, Kahlon also has personal motives to bring down Netanyahu.

These motives, combined with moderate political statements on Kahlon’s part regarding the importance of the diplomatic process and the need to enlarge the government by bringing in the Labor Party, caused the left to err. Time after time, they automatically counted Kahlon in the center-left “bloc” — in other words, on their side.

But eventually, this is nothing more than wishful thinking, or an illusion. Kahlon has never crossed the ideological divide. He was — and remains — a right-winger. Therefore, he will always prefer a right-wing government by default. In other words, Kahlon will not be the one to take the initiative in bringing down a right-wing government. But the desperate left will not allow facts to confuse them.