Is that a big deal?

Well, it could be.

It's not like he was going to win all that much, but there was a possibility that he was not going to make the cut, not going to get the 3.25% minimum that's needed.

And if that were the case, there's the fear that those votes would be wasted.

He is part of the change block, as they call it, that would be presumably supporting Eisenkot.

But at the same time, one of the interesting things there is that he's somebody who was always pushing for a unity government.

And there was a feeling that if there really was a deadlock – And Prime Minister Netanyahu had a slight majority that Gantz might have defected and gone over to join to create somewhat of a unity government that he would have gone with Netanyahu to break the deadlock.

Any truth to that?

Is that where you feel it is still?

Yeah.

In fact, it's really more like 55-55-10, or it's more like 12, but those are the Arab parties.

uh... uh... that those of the the ten or twelve or speak to the arab parties are going to win and they are not the finest party uh...

so the question is exactly how this is going to play out the thinking now is that if the coalition uh... what's a fifty six uh... then that might be enough to block the other side from taking over, because they think that of this, the Arab parties run on what they call the joint list, but the only one of them is probably willing to actually join a coalition of, you know, the opposition, the change block, they call it.

So if that's the case, that means that you've probably got um, let's say seven, uh, who won't join anything.

And, um, they'll, you know, they might try to get Netanyahu out, but they're not going to support, um, or they're unlikely to officially join any coalition, and might not even support it from the outside as a minority government.

Well, that's true.