I know that the deal had been made, and Netanyahu (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5) 12 year long reign as Israeli PM supposed to end, but I did not want to comment about this, because I was afraid that Netanyahu (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5) would find some way to pull a rabbit from the hat and stay in power, and out of jail.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, I was wrong. The Knesset has successfully had a vote of confidence in a new government that does not include Binyaman Netanyahu (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5)<\/a>.<\/p>\n So he is out, and there is no way that the current parliament will grant him immunity.<\/p>\n In fact, I rather expect that this government, with it’s “eclectic” group of ideologies and one vote majority, won’t survive more than a month beyond Netanyahu’s (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5) conviction and jailing.<\/p>\n Still that corrupt demagogue is out, and he is very likely going to jail:<\/p>\n The long and divisive reign of Benjamin Netanyahu, the dominant Israeli politician of the past generation, officially ended on Sunday night, at least for the time being, as the country\u2019s Parliament gave its vote of confidence to a precarious coalition government stitched together by widely disparate anti-Netanyahu forces.<\/p>\n Naftali Bennett<\/a>, a 49-year-old former aide to Mr. Netanyahu who opposes a Palestinian state and is considered to the right of his old ally, replaced him as prime minister after winning by just a single vote. Yair Lapid<\/a>, a centrist leader and the new foreign minister, is set to take Mr. Bennett\u2019s place after two years, if their government can hold together that long. It won’t. Bennett is a real horror show on his own, but he lacks the political acumen and native cunnint of Binyamin Netanyahu’s (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5), is a better alternative.<\/p>\n There is no one and nothing that Binyamin Netanyahu’s (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5) would not sacrifice to his own power and impunity, as he has proved over the years.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n Members of the bloc agree on little but a desire to oust Mr. Netanyahu, the longest-serving leader in the country\u2019s history, and the need to end a lengthy political gridlock that produced four elections in two years; left Israel<\/a> without a stable government or a state budget; and formed the backdrop to a surge in interethnic mob violence<\/a> between Jewish and Arab citizens during the recent 11-day conflict with Hamas.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Violence which was aggressively fomented and encouraged by Binyamin Netanyahu’s (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5) to further his political aims.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n During 15 years in power, the last 12 of them uninterrupted, Mr. Netanyahu helped shift Israel further to the right and presided over the dwindling of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, collapsing hopes of a two-state resolution to the conflict. He was also accused of undermining the rule of law by staying in office while standing trial for corruption. It was a decision that divided the Israeli right and contributed to Mr. Bennett\u2019s decision to side with Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s opponents.<\/p>\n Mr. Netanyahu, 71, simultaneously scored several diplomatic triumphs, including agreements with four Arab countries that upended assumptions that Israel would only normalize relations with the Arab world after it sealed peace with the Palestinians. <\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s Parliament, the Knesset, approved the new government by the slimmest of margins \u2014 the vote was 60 to 59. In a sign of challenges to come, one lawmaker who had originally agreed to support the coalition balked at the 11th hour, deciding to abstain instead of voting in its favor. To ensure the coalition\u2019s victory, a second lawmaker left a hospital to vote \u2014 and then returned to her hospital bed.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n One celebrant, Shoval Sadde, expressed relief that the coalition had come together after weeks of uncertainty. <\/p>\n \u201cToday is final,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are no secret magics anymore that Bibi can pull out of a hat. It\u2019s final.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n My feelings exactly.<\/p>\n I’m glad that I was wrong about my misgivings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know that the deal had been made, and Netanyahu (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5) 12 year long reign as Israeli PM supposed to end, but I did not want to comment about this, because I was afraid that Netanyahu (\u05d9\u05b4\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05d7 \u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05de\u05d5) would find some way to pull a rabbit from the hat and stay in power, and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,969,1159,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-evil","category-israel","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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