Posted on 05/28/2019 4:41:45 AM PDT by SJackson
Trumped weighed in on the events and said he hopes "Bibi" will prevail. The prime minister said there's a 48-hour deadline.
JERUSALEM — Israel's parliament on Monday passed a preliminary motion to dissolve itself. The move further pushed the country toward an unprecedented political impasse, less than two months after elections seemed to promise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a new mandate.
If the bill receives final passage in a vote scheduled Wednesday, Israel would be forced to hold new elections — sending the political system into disarray.
Netanyahu appeared to have a clear path to victory, and a fourth consecutive term, after the April 9 elections. His Likud party emerged tied as the largest party in the 120-seat parliament, and with his traditional allies, he appeared to control a solid 65-55 majority.
But he has struggled to form a government ahead of a looming deadline to do so. His prospective coalition has been thrown into crisis in recent days by former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, an ally and sometimes rival of Netanyahu's.
Netanyahu delivered a primetime statement on Monday calling on his potential partners to put "the good of the nation above every other interest" in order to avoid sending the country once again to "expensive, wasteful" elections. He placed the blame on Lieberman for creating the crisis, but said he was hopeful his efforts to salvage a compromise in the next 48 hours would succeed.
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Prayers for Netanyahu ...
Netanyahu doesn't "face" a 2nd election ...
If Bibi can't get Lieberman to join the coalition, then by law the president can meet again with lawmakers and confer on another member of Knesset the opportunity to build a coalition of 61 and the premiership.
On the whole of this green Earth, THIS is the absolute last thing Benjamin Netanyahu wants --- someone else as PM where he loses the chance to pass his immunity bill to keep himself out of prison.
So, no, Bibi doesn't "face" a second election .... he's praying for one.
There are crises and there are crises. This is an annoyance and a monumental waste of money, but not a crisis in an existential sense.
In the election, the so-called right wing parties won a clear majority. Unfortunately, one of the right-wing parties, led by Naftali Bennett, fell 1,000 votes short of getting into the Knesset, which is the Israeli parliament. Had it received those votes it would have four seats in the 120-seat Knesset.
Because of this 1,000-vote shortfall, the party run by Avigdor Lieberman has become a kingmaker. Without Lieberman’s party joining the government Netanyahu will have 60 votes in his coalition, exactly 50%. Lieberman has demanded legislation that many of the other right-wing parties consider untenable and that is why the coalition has not been formed.
If Netanyahu is unable to form a government by tomorrow night, then either the President, Ruvi Rivlin, will ask the left-wing Blue White party to form a government, which nobody expects him to be able to do, or else the Knesset will dissolve and new elections will be set for September. While anything can happen in an election, nobody expects that a September election would give anyone other than Netanyahu’s Likud party the right to form the next government.
My best read of this is that Lieberman is cashing in on deep resentment that the secular Israelis feel towards the religious Israelis who refuse the draft which is the norm in that country.
He thinks more of the religious folks should be forced into the military even though they feel religious obligations are more important.
How does Netanyahu get to 61 in September?
And who’s running the government until then?
Thanks.
Wouldn’t it be great if our Congress could dissolve itself in 48 hours. Wow would that solve many problems.
LOL!
But is there a PM until the new elections?
In my opinion Netanyahu gets to 61 because most of the just-under-4 seats that had gone to Bennett’s “New Right” party will be redistributed to other right wing parties. In that case he will get to a number of seats between 61 and 64.
In the meantime Netanyahu continues as Prime Minister, but the Knesset is not in session.
In my opinion Netanyahu gets to 61 because most of the just-under-4 seats that had gone to Bennett’s “New Right” party will be redistributed to other right wing parties. In that case he will get to a number of seats between 61 and 64.
In the meantime Netanyahu continues as Prime Minister, but the Knesset is not in session.
This is what I don’t understand ... if the government is dissolved, doesn’t that include the premiership?
Thanks for a comforting explanation of what's happening... feels better now.
For those keeping track of the Genie Energy/Kushner/Israeli nexus:
https://twitter.com/chattylaurel/status/1133220426895712256
The draft in the US accomplished the goal of releasing devout religious men from service based on enrollment in schools of theology and of formal religous ministry. Surely this compromise is acceptable to the fundamentalists of Israel.
Someone’s got to be in charge.
The Knesset gets dissolved for a new election. But the Prime Minister is not a member of Knesset. In fact, many cabinet ministers are not members of Knesset (they resign their Knesset seat when they become a cabinet member, giving their party the chance to add someone else from the party into the government).
But the Prime Minister can’t get legislation through during these limbo periods, because the Knesset is not in session.
Similarly, the military, the army, government employees, etc. are not directly affected.
The army is part of the military; that was a mental hiccup. D’oh!
And once again the MSM is trying mightily to put down Israel.
There is no lower plane of existance than the modern liberal journalist.
The draft issue is just the most visible marker in the conflict between secular and ultra-religious Jews. The ultra-orthodox with their much higher birth rates have gone from a curiosity to I believe now 20% of Israel’s Jewish population. They account for half of Jerusalem’s population.
It looks like they picked up quite a few seats in the election as well.
I hope things can be sorted out among the various factions in Israel.
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