Likud Begins Its March Toward the Center

To attack Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t need Shaul Mofaz. Such a strike, if it is ever carried out ‏(and it seems it won’t be necessary‏), will enjoy consensus support even without the Kadima chairman. He also doesn’t need Mofaz to change the system of government, or even to support a replacement for the Tal Law, which governs draft exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox: Whatever new law is passed, Netanyahu won’t throw the Haredim out of his coalition, for fear that Mofaz will once again betray him. And the Haredim, even if a law “with teeth” is passed, will neither enlist nor be drafted. Nor will the Arabs, who have even greater immunity than the Haredim, be compelled to serve. And certainly they won’t serve, even in civilian national service.