Israeli Elections
Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman calls for a national liberal emergency coalition • Likud: The cat is out the bag; Lieberman wants a leftist government.
While mistakes have been made, acknowledges Labor Party Knesset member Hilik Bar, “no one should eulogize the Labor Party.”
The New Right Party “appeals to the entire nation, and if you are not a hard leftist, it does not antagonize you,” says Moshe Feiglin.
In a Facebook post, he wrote: “The party is in a great crisis, and I do not absolve myself of responsibility.”
While polls still show that right-wing parties dominate the political map, Blue and White Party officials say if they receive a few more seats than Likud, then the president will ask Benny Gantz to form the next government instead of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The decision was the next logical step in light of Labor’s poor showing in the April 9 general election, which saw the party dwindle to just six mandates.
They are attempting proactive measures now so that the end result will be a government coalition under Benjamin Netanyahu.
With Ehud Barak as party chief, current leader Avi Gabbay would be able to withdraw with his dignity relatively intact, sparing him the humiliation he is likely to otherwise face from his staunch Labor rivals in the Knesset.
The move comes after reports that the Israeli prime minister was considering a Cabinet reshuffle to gear up for September’s election.
An examination of the voting patterns of Israeli Arabs living in Arab towns and villages dramatically disproves P.A. claims of “Israeli apartheid.”
The New Right and Zehut leaders are talking about the two parties running on a joint list for the election and reverting to their current status should they make it into the Knesset.
With one hour till midnight, the prime minister’s motorcade pulls up to the Knesset. As he enters the building, Benjamin Netanyahu tells the media: “We are heading to new elections.”
