Posted on 05/05/2015 2:19:04 PM PDT by Former Fetus
ime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett were engaged in a game of chicken Tuesday night, with Bennett demanding a more prominent role for his party in the next coalition, and Netanyahu knowing that he has to tell the president by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday that he has formed a majority government.
Bennett was said to be demanding the job of foreign minister or defense minister, and the post of justice minister for colleague Ayelet Shaked, with Uri Ariel also getting a substantive ministerial post. Reports throughout Tuesday said Bennett had “put his cellphone on Airplane Mode,” and was not budging from his demands, while Likud sources said Netanyahu was reluctant to concede to them.
Likud sources told Channel 2 that “the right will never forgive” Bennett if he dooms Netanyahu’s coalition-building, and rejected the Justice Ministry demand for Shaked. But with time running out and no other options, it seemed the prime minister had little choice but to find common ground with Bennett’s Orthodox-nationalist party.
Under election law, Netanyahu must tell President Reuven Rivlin before midnight on Wednesday that he has managed to form a coalition, but he has until next Wednesday to actually get it sworn in by the Knesset, which allows for some wiggle room beyond the ostensible Wednesday-night deadline.
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Messy system, I prefer ours, though it would have been rid of Obama in 18 months or so.
I prefer the multiple party coalitions to the monopolistic American two-party system. I also like the way a government can be toppled and new elections called. But the American system encourages the most beautiful deadlocks by setting the Legislative, Judiciary and Executive branches against each other, and the States against the Federal government itself. So little gets done that way. If only they could be made to do less.
I don’t think an American cabinet of mixed parties would function as well, or even in the nations interests, at times of crisis. Maybe WWII, can’t think of any other time the politics wouldn’t prevail. Being constantly under threat that works better in Israel from a security perspective.
Also, we’re tiny. In America, an unscheduled election would be a disaster. Here it can be thrown together in a matter of weeks.
Parenthetically, America is under constant threat. It was during the recent Iraq war, too. But the Libtards continued to play cut throat politics. You are too far from the hot spots for the hoi polloi to realize that it all eventually jumps up and bites them in the ass, as it has repeatedly. This latest thing in Texas? All the fault of Pamela Geller’s racism. But there are terrorists operating on American soil, and deep in the interior? It was a small, isolated reaction to Pamela Geller’s racism. Ferguson? Baltimore? Charleston? Racist cops, angry youths. Nothing to see here. Move along. We’ll hog tie the police and that way there won’t be any more riots. Our army will protect us right after they’re done rogering their butt buddies. Reminds me of those disaster movies during the ‘70s where the authorities refuse to admit that anything is wrong. Only now it’s the media doing the denying, too. In Hair they called it ‘supreme delusions of longitude’.
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