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| Subject: Netanyahu is fighting for power like his freedom depends on it -- and it might Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:24 pm | |
| Nearly everything about the last year in Israeli politics has been unprecedented. A second election. A third election. A sitting Prime Minister indicted. That same Prime Minister standing next to the US President and talking about imminent annexation of Palestinian territory. But at the same time, nearly everything about the last year in Israeli politics has been painfully, ploddingly stagnant. This is worse than deja vu. This is election purgatory, with no apparent way out. Election polls have barely shifted. Voters are exhausted to be facing another election cycle. And nothing seems able to nudge the political map toward an actual, functioning government. For much of the three-month campaign, opinion polls showed Benny Gantz's Blue and White party with a slight lead -- two or three seats -- over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party. But even in the clearest of polls, Gantz was never predicted to have a clear path to the 61 seats needed to form a government. By the final week of campaigning, the three major election polls showed Likud narrowly in front, with a one-seat lead. But the bigger picture was unchanged. Like Gantz, Netanyahu did not appear on track to have the necessary seats to form a government. "I don't see any breaking of the deadlock right now," said a political consultant, who asked to remain anonymous as they work for one of the campaigns. "I don't see it at this moment."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/01/middleeast/israel-election-feb-2020-netanyahu-intl/index.html |
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