The election of Naftali Bennett is a perfect illustration of how Israel’s system of apartheid works.

Liberal Zionists are celebrating Israel’s new rightwing prime minister, Naftali Bennett. Why? Although many secular Zionist leftists may not see him as “Our guy”, they may still identify with him on his militarism and the startup ideology, and this may be enough to sanitize him for them, as a pragmatic partner whom they can emotionally accept.

Netanyahu easily moved U.S. policy for over a decade, due to the force of his will and the use of the powerful Israel lobby in U.S. politics, especially on the Democratic side. Today one force is gone– Netanyahu is an opposition politician to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — and the other is in disarray.

Liberal Zionists are secretly exultant over Naftali Bennett unseating Benjamin Netanyahu, hoping it will end the politicization of Israel in U.S. politics. But Apartheid is a hard sell and Bennett will quickly be on a collision course with a lot of people in the United States who think Palestinians should have rights.

It was not Naftali Bennett or Avigdor Lieberman who finally dethroned Benjamin Netanyahu, but the Palestinians themselves.

Israel’s possible next prime minister Naftali Bennett would need to deliver to his base, with anti-Palestinian provocation. Which makes it unlikely that a non-Netanyahu government can stem the tide of pro-Palestinian sentiment which followed the last massacre in Gaza. Though this is what hasbara-ists, in the US and Israel, are hoping for.

Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s “Change bloc” that may form the next Israeli government is not ideologically very different to a Likud bloc. It might not have the extreme right Kahanist faction of Jewish Power in it, as the right bloc did, but the Change bloc really is about Jewish power anyway: the Zionist dominance of Jewish power.

A leading U.S. Israel lobby group honors Netanyahu in a morning meeting then throws him under the bus in the afternoon– its CEO saying that a Naftali Bennett government would make it easier to sell Israel to the Democratic Party.

Rightwinger Naftali Bennett, 49, who boasted of killing Arabs, will replace Benjamin Netanyahu under a deal reached tonight with centrist Yair Lapid, Israeli media are reporting.

Following Israel’s fourth election in two years, Benjamin Netanyahu’s base is more vulnerable and more extreme than ever before. But this time a coalition with Arab parties could tip the scales.