With the various far-right portions of the previous coalition government
now split, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for
newer, farther right parties to court. He has made a deal on the merger of two extremist parties to try to get them above the electoral threshhold, and a deal to see those MPs join a Netanyahu-led coalition.
The merger combines what is left of the Jewish Home party, which is tiny
since Naftali Bennett and other leaders left to form the New Right, and
the Jewish Power party, a collection of racists loyal to the banned movement of Rabbi Meir Kahane.
This has sparked some criticism from Netanyahu’s rivals, with him trying to cobble together potential allies from racists and homophobes, in an effort to keep his far-right coalition standing, no matter how much farther right it has to go.
While these parties are both very divisive and not palatable to the
mainstream, they are both extremely pro-settler, and in Israel’s
notoriously-tight elections, courting the comparatively small number of
settler voters is always seen as a priority for coalition-builders.
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Yes, it is a net result of Netanyahu’s activities.
The truth is he has never been elected to office.
He uses Israel’s bizarre political system to patch together what he needs to satay in office.
It’s almost as though Israel’s political system were designed to support oppression, occupation, abuse, and the absence of rule of law.
Netanyahu has been elected to office numerous times (as a member of the Knesset).
Prime ministers are only indirectly “elected” to that position. The (internally elected) leader of the political party with a majority in the Knesset (or the head of the largest party from a coalition of parties with a majority) is prime minister. Netanyahu has proven very adept at putting together such coalitions when Likud can’t nail down a Knesset majority on its own.
Almost every European country needs a coalition. How does needing a coalition support oppression, occupation, abuse, and the absence of rule of law?
It depends on the coalition itself, dude. If it contains a bunch of extremists such as settlers, then it’ll support oppression, abuse, and the absence of the Rule of Law.
There were very few instances wherein there was the Rule of Law. Remember, Israel has NO Constitution to rein in oppression and abuse; Bibzy Nutty&Yahoo does what he wants, especially bombing Gaza with illegal weapons such as cluster bombs and white phosphorus on its defenseless civilians .. or, if not doing that, ordering prison guards to torture Palestinian prisoners. He’s a psychopath at its worst.