A new coalition even more extreme than the last

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/10/israel-election-netanyahu-appears-on-track-for-victory-despite-tied-result

Netanyahu appears on track for victory 

Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be on course to be re elected as Prime Minister of Israel. With 97%of the votes counted, he and General Benny Grantz, leader of the Blue and White party Netanyahu's main rival for the Premiership, have each won 35 seats in the 120 seat Knesset.However, due to the complexities of the Israeli electoral system and the political balance in the country, Netanyahu seems certain to be able to form another coalition to keep him in power for another 4 years. Netanyahu will, as he has done to date, be able to draw support from the extreme right, nationalists and religious parties who historically have supported and promoted the expansion and creation of Israeli settlements on the West Bank and other areas of occupied Palestine. The parties likely to prop up the Netanyahu Likud party would be the New Right headed by Naftali Bennett who is  infamous for his extremist views on Palestinians and the now discredited "Two State" solution. Shas, Jewish Home, United Torah Judaism and a few other parties of the extreme right or ultra orthodox religious parties,will ensure  that Netanyahu's anti Palestinian policies will continue and become even more provocative. He has already promised that should he win the election, Israel will annex all of the Israeli settlements, including those in Jerusalem and absorb them into the Israeli state. This act in itself ensures that there can be no viable Palestinian state at any time in the future and condemns the region into an endless round of violence as each side wages strike and counter strike against the other. In respect of Gaza The measures of blockade by land and sea  will only intensify as the new Israeli government seeks to exert pressure on the embattled enclave and demonstrate that it has the power and the intention of destroying the Palestinian people. The new Israeli government emerging from the election, promises to be the most extreme and the most oppressive one to date. The world should recognise that we have entered a new and most dangerous period, even more dangerous than any before.

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