Two bad omens for the Blue and White party in one day: the first, when former Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced June 26 that he is establishing a new left-wing party; the second, when Nitzan Horowitz won the primaries June 27 to lead the Meretz Party.
At age 77, at an improvised and surprising press conference, Barak burst back into active political life and disrupted the center-left camp. Barak hit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mercilessly, armed with sharp and aggressive messages on the urgency of returning the country to sanity and the necessity of saving the Zionist enterprise from Netanyahu’s corrupt regime. The immediate victim of his stirring display was chairman of the Blue and White party, Benny Gantz. Without any special effort, without a promoter or media advisers, Barak showed exactly what Gantz lacks: a killer instinct.
