Is Netanyahu's coalition in danger?
Shmuel Rosner asks five questions with no good answers; number 3 ought to be forwarded to those in the Obama administration who are seeking 'regime change' in Israel. 3. Is Netanyahu's coalition in danger?Rosner's right. Unlike Arik Sharon, a majority of Netanyahu's Likud will not go with him if he tries to start a 'centrist' party. So he's stuck with the coalition he has. If the agitators in Labor succeed in getting Ehud Barak to pull out, it only makes it more likely - rather than less - that the coalition stays together as a narrow Right wing coalition.
I don't think so. But all those wanting Netanyahu to dump the "right wing" and move to a more centrist coalition forget that Netanyahu isn't 80 years old and doesn't want this term to be his last. He can't - and will not - endanger the long-time relations with the right. Only a fool will trust Livni's and Barak's long term support.
We all remember 1992 and 1999.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:43 PM
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Netanyahu has the National Union to his right and if Labor pulls out he can add them and still have a comfortable Knesset majority. In fact, Netanyahu has more options to build a rightist coalition government than he does a centrist one. But this is a fact of Israeli political life lost on the Obami in Washington.
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