Why Israel’s Political Crisis Remains Unresolved
Benjamin Netanyahu is stuck between compromise and the right-wing base he depends on.
April 8, 2020
The Tragedy of Israeli Arab Politics
The Joint List has no place governing a state it wishes to destroy.
One of the factors that pushed the erstwhile Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz into coalition talks with his rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, was his realization that some members of his own party would defect if he were to form a coalition with the alliance of Arab parties known as the Joint List. Thus, despite having won fifteen Knesset seats in the most recent election—thanks to high voter turnout and its effective consolidation into a single bloc—the Joint List has thus missed an opportunity for an unprecedented role in the government. And the fault is solely its own, writes Jonathan Tobin:
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The Tragedy of Israeli Arab Politics
The Joint List has no place governing a state it wishes to destroy.
Rashid Khalidi’s New History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Opts for Lies and Distortions over Dispassionate Examination
“Another somewhat turgid recitation of the traditional Palestinian narrative.”
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