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The documents include proposed changes to the country’s basic laws, designed to prevent Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett from bolting the new government and to ensure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot again serve as premier.
Yamina leader Naftali Bennett blasts “violent machine” targeting opposition lawmakers, tells Netanyahu to “let go, let the country move forward.”
Israel’s emerging coalition is the “biggest election deceit in Israeli history,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Yesh Atid presents the Knesset Secretariat with the signatures of 61 lawmakers, looking to have a new government sworn in by next week.
“This looks to me like a car with four different wheels, and every wheel is going in a different direction,” said Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar. “The only thing they agree upon is the need to get rid of [Benjamin] Netanyahu. This objective will be achieved in the first minute of this government.”
It is expected to be comprised of seven parties spanning the political spectrum from left, center and right, including the first time that an Arab party will play a role in forming an Israeli government.
On the heels of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the region, Mideast experts say America is misreading the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, and using smoke and mirrors as it works to appease Iran and placate Israel.
Faced with the choice of friction with America and eliminating the “existential” threat posed by Iran, Israel will choose the latter, says the Israeli premier at the swearing-in ceremony of the new Mossad chief.
“There isn’t a person in Israel who would have voted for you if they had known what you were going to do,” says the Israeli premier, after the Yamina leader announces his intent to join a “change” government.
The decision will be voted on in the next Cabinet meeting; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expects it to be approved easily.
During their joint press conference in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had discussed the Iranian threat with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and expressed hope that the United States “will not go back to the old JCPOA.”
The conversation between the U.S. president and the Israeli prime minister—the fourth in the past week—appears to reflect a growing concern in the White House over the conflict.
