Yesterday, Israelis went to the polls to determine the new makeup of the 19th Israeli Knesset. All 120 seats were up for grabs, and while Israeli pollsters largely predicted that current Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu's Likud bloc would retain its plurality in the Knesset, that margin would shrink and his current coalition government would see a shakeup. Currently, Netenyahu's coalition is
Showing posts with label Binyamin Netanyahu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Binyamin Netanyahu. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
On Yesterday's Historic Israeli Elections
Posted on 08:30 by Unknown
Posted in Binyamin Netanyahu, economics, economy, elections, Israel, peace process, Tal Law, Yair Lapid
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Monday, 24 September 2012
The Barak Disengagement Plan
Posted on 08:11 by Unknown
Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak has come out with a new plan that is spurring a new debate about Israel's role in the West Bank. Ehud Barak is part of the government coalition under Binyamin Netanyahu, but he's also the leader of his own political party and has aspirations to once again be Prime Minister of Israel.
That means that his comments need to be framed both as an internal political
That means that his comments need to be framed both as an internal political
Posted in Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Fatah, foreign policy, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Authority, peace process, West Bank
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Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Israel's Netanyahu Forms Coalition Government With Rival Kadima
Posted on 06:26 by Unknown
Israeli politics can make for strange bedfellows. The Knesset is made up of 120 parlimentarians, and to govern, one must be able to get a majority of Parliament. In the last election, Likud was given the opportunity to form a coalition government (in Israel's history, no single party has ever garnered sufficient seats to form a government on its own). It did so, but only barely.
The need to
The need to
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