Posted on 05/01/2026 11:18:08 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Two Israeli political heavyweights on Sunday said they would join forces in elections scheduled for later this year in an effort to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid served as prime ministers in a rotation agreement as part of a coalition government they formed in 2021, ending 12 years of Netanyahu’s rule. Now they plan to merge their parties into single faction headed by Bennett, calling it a partnership between the center and the right.
Bennett said if elected, the new government on its first day would establish a state commission of inquiry into the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel that started the war, an issue that has dogged Netanyahu...
The two men have ideological differences. Bennett is an Orthodox Jew with hard-line views toward the Palestinians, while Lapid is secular and seen as more moderate. But they enjoyed a close working relationship during their short-lived coalition.
“We have been through a great deal together. We have made difficult decisions together. We know we can count on one another,” Lapid said.
Their alliance is aimed at uniting a fragmented opposition that appears to have little in common beyond their shared hostility toward Netanyahu.
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see also: Netanyahu denies responsibility for October 7 failures, releases 55-page response to state comptroller
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Complete with dueling trophy wives.
A national apology and unconditional surrender to Hamas.
Never mind that the entire nation of Israel was on High Alert for seven days before Hamas attacked thousands of unarmed civilians!
Hope they can unseat that lunatic
Netanyahu is responsible for shifting the Overton Window. Israel was founded as a socialist nation.
I support Bibi 100%.
Concurring bump...the extreme right in Israel tries to portray Bennett as a leftist, but its just gaslighting.
Bennett is not a Leftist. He appeared to be reasonable when he was the PM.
People do the dumbest things: threw Churchill out; want to get rid of Netanyahu; killed JFK; killed MLK; killed Charlie Kirk, have tried to assassinate Trump (at least) 3 times. ...
Excellent observation. I believe the USSR was one of the first nations to recognize Israel as a nation state. Having a socialist country in the Near East would allow the USSR to create lots of mischief.
WOW!
That’s like obama and biden getting together to stop trump from being president, the first time.
It is true that a lot of the conflicts we have in the ME today originate from the British/French carve up of the ME after WWI, but what is almost exclusively conveniently forgotten is to what great extent the present day conflicts are due to Soviet policies.
Just a few examples the PLO, PFLP and Arafat all received support and orders from the Soviets. The Six Day War was due to Soviet machinations.
“The two men have ideological differences. Bennett is an Orthodox Jew with hard-line views toward the Palestinians, while Lapid is secular and seen as more moderate. But they enjoyed a close working relationship during their short-lived coalition. “
They are the Israeli equivalent of some GOPer and a Dim, both with TDS, agreeing to run together just to defeat Trump. As their TDS is the only thing they can really agree on, actually governing together will bring up their real major differences and end their coalition. That’s what happened the last time the two Netanyhu haters got together, and it will go that way again.
I see it that way also...
Any nation the U.S. subsidizes is a socialist nation.
Netanyahu simply shifted more of the burden from Israeli to U.S. taxpayers.
I’m with you! Either of these yo-yos would be a disaster for Israel.
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