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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Israel’s government is a bit shaky right now from what I gather. Lemme look.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-anti-netanyahu-bloc-begins-navigating-around-controversies-to-form-unity-government-1.9783010

May 7 2021

Anti-Netanyahu Bloc Begins Navigating Around Controversies to Form Unity Government
A government is being quietly constructed at this very moment, but it seems that any coalition agreement will be very sparse, and have nothing to say about Israel’s controversial topics

Knesset members from Labor and Meretz probably never imagined they would one day hope that Yamina Chairman Naftali Bennett could form a government. The ideological, diplomatic and religious divides among the parties are unbridgeable.

(paywall)

Maybe this one is more informative:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-fails-to-muster-majority-coalition-as-midnight-deadline-passes/

Netanyahu tells president he cannot form a government; Rivlin may now task Lapid

May 5 2021

Likud incumbent formally returns the mandate minutes before midnight deadline; president to discuss next steps with party representatives Wednesday; Netanyahu stays transitional PM

Rivlin’s office said it would contact party representatives “regarding the process of forming a government” on Wednesday morning. He is now seen likely to give Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid the chance to form a coalition, in the knowledge that Lapid and Yamina’s Naftali Bennett have been holding negotiations under which Bennett would serve first as prime minister in a rotation agreement with Lapid.

In a statement, Likud blamed Bennett for blocking Netanyahu’s route to a majority. “Because of Bennett’s refusal to commit to a right-wing government, a move that would definitely have led to the establishment of a government with additional MKs joining, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned the mandate to the president,” Likud said as the midnight deadline passed.

[Lots more at link]

More articles but outcome is uncertain and Israeli politics are impenetrable to my understanding. Netanyahu may not have much say about this vile vax passport crap right now.


1,044 posted on 05/08/2021 3:32:16 PM PDT by little jeremiah (To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. )
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To: little jeremiah

What was Netanyahu’s position on vacation passports?


1,148 posted on 05/08/2021 8:36:14 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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