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October 7, 2019 - Netanyahu between Primaries, Rotation, Elections, Indictment, and Iran [ [link removed] ]
Q. What has changed over the past two weeks in Israel's chaotic post-election scene?
A. Conceivably, Depending how you look at it, nothing at all--and a lot...
Q. Start with the bureaucratic paralysis. There is a new Knesset, right?
A. Yes, but without a new government based on 61 members...
Q. Netanyahu still has the mandate from President Rivlin to form a government?
A. As of the beginning of this week, that was the case. But Netanyahu has failed to recruit Blue and White to join a government of national unity led by himself...
Q. Is there a relative precedent here from the Ehud Olmert case?
A. Yes. In 2009 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert opted to resign the premiership...
Q. "Difficulty getting back on track" is an understatement...
A. We see derailing political systems in the US, UK, Israel and for that matter in Hong Kong...
Q. How do you assess the Rivlin and Netanyahu veiled warnings about looming security dangers that must be met on an emergency basis with national unity?
A. Note that Rivlin hoped to jolt the politicians into forming a unity government regardless of who leads it, while Netanyahu meant a unity government headed by himself...
Q. That seems indeed to justify a unity government, and sooner rather than later.
A. Obviously, these are circumstances in which it would be helpful for Israel's political leadership to stand at the head of a broad national-unity government...
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