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Netanyahu flexes muscles within coalition, still vulnerable over Gaza

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Published: 23 November 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

He stared down Bennett and Shaked and reasserted himself as leader, but the PM still has to prove that he can bring about calm in the south

Netanyahu trapped over Gaza, political crisis (Al-Monitor)
SHLOMI ELDAR Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must prove to the Israeli public that his decision to accept a cease-fire with Hamas and advance an arrangement could actually bring about quiet to the south.

Pathetic U-turn proves Netanyahu's rivals are not in his league (Haaretz)
YOSSI VERTER In a mortifying show of capitulation in the Knesset, dishrag Ministers Bennett and Shaked wound up with neither the defence portfolio nor early elections

Bringing coalition back from the dead, PM puts rivals in political purgatory (Times of Israel)
RAOUL WOOTLIFF Four observations on the hairpin twists and turns of Israel’s dramatic realpolitik developments, and their potential

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DAHLIA SCHEINDLIN The political map in Israel hasn’t fundamentally changed for the past decade, when left-wing voters migrated to the center and centrist voters moved right.

Photo: Ministers Bennett and Shaked (Reuters)
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