Israeli politics is experiencing the Dell Rule for Losers

Michael Dell is quite an extraordinary fellow. While other billionaires get more airtime due to their political or ideological activities, the computer maker is a true revolutionary. As IBM was selling six-month-old components, Dell had his people take parts directly out of supplier trucks so as to always give the customer the newest chip or the most recent RAM. Dell tore up the field and effectively clobbered far older computer makers. IBM personal computers are all Chinese today and many of the names from the 1980s are no longer around.

While Dell was delivering computers within 24 hours of order, his competition tried to figure out how to contain him. Compaq and HP decided to merge, assuming that size would help even the playing field against the Texas tornado. When Dell was asked about the two big computer makers merging, he said that both companies were losing money: what would putting two losing companies together help in making a much bigger loser?

Israeli politics is now entering the Dell phase of history. Anyone not named Bibi is joining forces with similar folks to make a super “We’re not Bibi” party. They don’t seem to have any new or original ideas on Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, a super-charged shekel (which hurts Israeli exporters), or internal challenges with the ultraorthodox and the draft. Their only purpose is to put together their ragtag followings, with the hope that they somehow cobble together 61 seats in the Knesset and send Netanyahu home and his Likud Party to the opposition. The last time Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett ran the government, they inconveniently had to add an Islamist party to round out their majority. And while Israeli Arabs are bus drivers, doctors, pharmacists, nurses, judges, and professors, nobody thought that state secrets would ever be shared with people who might—might—share them with Israel’s enemies.........

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