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Likud suporters at a Likud party rally for the jewish holiday of Passover in Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Habit voting aided Netanyahu despite all

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Now that the actual elections (though not the coalition-building process) are behind us we can stop and think about what we have all just been through here in Israel, and what awaits us in...

Jewish critics of Israel have a problem with Israelis, not with Netanyahu

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The last time the outcome of a U.S. presidential election was as decisive as the vote held last week in Israel, Americans were pretty much unanimous as to what to call it. The word...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump meet at the White House in February. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Report: Trump warns Netanyahu about Sino-Israeli relations

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U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the latter’s visit at the White House last month that Israel could jeopardize its security cooperation with the United States if it...
Israelis cast their ballots at a voting station in Jerusalem during the general elections on April 9, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Israel: Beating a dead Leftist horse

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Israel’s electorate has refused to grow up, and its leaders are to blame. They turned the election campaign into a fight of Right against Left—though it’s been clear for years that there is no Israeli...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara addresses their supporters as the the results in the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 09, 2019. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Democrats’ war on Netanyahu isn’t compatible with a pro-Israel stance

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When leaders of Tammany Hall—the legendary Democratic machine that ran New York City for more than a century—would be confronted with an occasional electoral setback, their usual response was to deride it by claiming...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara address supporters at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 09, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

The right still rules in Israel. Will it continue?

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Is Benjamin Netanyahu’s dominance of Israeli politics the product of a consensus he helped build, or is he merely a convenient beneficiary of forces that were beyond his control? Like the old question about...

There is no left left in Israel

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Don't be fooled by misleading stories about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's disappointing showing in Tuesday's election in Israel. Even if the centrist Blue and White alliance of former military chief Benny Gantz were to eke out...
U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at United Nations headquarters in New York on Sept. 26, 2018. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Trump says Netanyahu victory is ‘good for peace’

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With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to form another governing coalition, winning re-election on Tuesday, world leaders began to offer their congratulations. U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday morning that while the results have...
Benny Gantz, head of Blue and White Party, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party. Credit: Gili Yaari /Flash90 and Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

How an electoral tie represents a landslide victory for Israel’s right

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won a decisive electoral victory at the polls despite tying with main rival Benny Gantz, former chief of staff in the Israel Defense Forces. While both the ruling Likud Party...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara address supporters at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 09, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Despite head-to-head election tie, Netanyahu-led right emerges victorious

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With nearly all the votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Benjamin Netanyahu will likely remain as prime minister, despite his Likud Party coming in a virtual tie with Blue and White Party leader Benny...