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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Vows To Quickly Form Right-Wing Coalition After Crushing Win
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right and is likely to worsen a troubled relationship with the White House. In the final days of campaigning, Netanyahu abandoned a commitment to negotiate…
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Israel News What Will Netanyahu Victory Mean for American-Israeli Relations?
The White House reserved its judgment in the hours after results began coming in from Israeli elections. The perfunctory statement congratulating the winner and praising the democratic process was put on hold, perhaps in a lingering hope that the coalition building process will somehow send Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu home and crown Isaac Herzog as…
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Fast Forward Iran Says No Difference in Israeli Leaders — All Are ‘Aggressors’
There is no difference between Israeli political parties following the electoral victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, Iran’s foreign ministry spokeswoman was quoted as saying by semi-official Mehr News Agency on Wednesday. “For us there is no difference between the Zionist regime’s political parties. They are all aggressors in nature,” Marizeh Afkham told…
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Fast Forward Herzog Calls Netanyahu To Concede Defeat in Israel’s Elections
Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog called Benjamin Netanyahu and conceded defeat in Israel’s national elections. On Wednesday morning Herzog told reporters outside of his home that he spoke by phone with the prime minister and “congratulated him on his achievement and wished him good luck.” “The nation has had its say, and we have to…
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Opinion Trouble Ahead for Bibi. Plus: Why Herzog Lost
In the end it wasn’t even close. Pre-election polls had Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud trailing the Zionist Union of Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni by four Knesset seats, nearly 4% of the popular vote. Analysts around the world were falling over each other to write Bibi’s political obituary. Then came election day. Exit polls found he’d…
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Israel News After Vote, Spotlight Shifts to Reuven Rivlin
Five days before the Israeli elections, Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, was focused on a topic that it’s safe to say is nearer to his heart: Israeli soccer. The president, a former chairman of the Beitar Jerusalem team — known for its virulently anti-Arab fans — had just unveiled a prize to fight bigotry in soccer…
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Opinion Election Spotlights Israel’s Broken Electoral System
Israeli voters are now officially exhausted by too many elections. Twice in two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to pass the state budget, and by calling early votes he threw the country into chaos. We now alternate between one year needed to dissolve the Knesset and government and reconstitute them, and another year…
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Fast Forward Election Results Mean Palestinians Will Press at ICC, Chief Negotiator Says
The chief Palestinian negotiator expects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government and has declared that the Palestinians in turn will push forward with legal efforts at the International Criminal Court. “It is clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next government, and for that, we say clearly that we…
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