able to cope at 19 what's happening here now is seen as a serious public health risk florida thrives on tourism and for those looking to break free from a year of coup good restrictions there's disappointment it's a little we dig us considering that now we are going to stay on the hotels on the strip and we didn't even have been to paris back then and i understand. that it's not what i expected i bet it was going to be more fun these aren't the kind of scenes miami beach wants seen across the world but in the midst of a deadly pandemic officials say they'd rather not deal with another spike in cases to go across 0 miami beach florida. where again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera israelis are voting in their 4th election in 2 years is widely seen as a referendum on prime minister benjamin netanyahu the campaign has been dominated

by his corruption cases economy and the coronavirus pandemic at the name has more from western. the voters we've been speaking to fall into 2 camps they either support prime minister benjamin netanyahu or they oppose him and among those who oppose him we've heard concerns people saying they are worried about the course this country is on others saying they feel helpless and hopeless prime minister netanyahu is expected to garner the most votes even though more than half of israelis recently polled say they want him out and mars military has accused the country's ousted leader of accepting bribes while in office an army spokesman made the accusations against entente sochi during a televised media briefing on sense which he was detained after being deposed in a cool last month. the agency overseeing vaccine trials in the u.s. has voiced concerns over data provided by astra zeneca on is on the efficacy of

it's called $900.00 vaccine on monday the pharmaceutical company said its trials showed its job was 79 percent effective. coronavirus case is a surging again in india for the 1st time in 5 months the country has recorded more than 40000 new infections in the last 24 hours in many states rules on social distancing and wearing masks are being ignored the health ministry is warning that launch crowds gathering for hindu festival could lead to a further rise in cases and at least 15 people have been killed and thousands left homeless after a major fire at a will hang a refugee camp in bangladesh hundreds of tents were brian down leaving thousands of people without shelter health centers and other facilities have also been destroyed that's it you're upset with headlines on al-jazeera as always more news on our website al-jazeera dot com inside story is next.

reelection with you no clear winner now the israelis go to the polls again to again the hope is to end the standoff that gripped the cult for christmas votes make a difference and won't leave benjamin netanyahu this is in silence to. their welcome to the program i'm convinced now israel's 4th round of elections in less than 2 years is aimed at ending its prolonged political crisis but opinion

polls suggest the vote could yield inconclusive results yet again and lead to coalition governments that could soon collapse prime minister benjamin netanyahu is again at the forefront of the elections he's already been in power for 12 consecutive years netanyahu believes he and his right wing allies can get an edge this time and lead the government for a 6th term he's being challenged by a fractured group of political content as powerful as it sets up a discussion with this report. in 3 consecutive elections benny gantz presented the strongest challenge benjamin netanyahu had faced in years. the former army chief head of the blue and white alliance helping deny netanyahu a viable coalition but failing to form one of his own his decision last year to split his alliance and break his central campaign promise by joining that in yangon government has seen his standing crumble i'm not only fast moving we into the government despite netanyahu not for netanyahu we into the government because there was

a health economic and social crisis one of the biggest israel has ever seen and we are not outside is all of us the soldiers for this country now he's campaigning for perhaps half a dozen seats on the basis that they can block legislation allowing us to escape his corruption trial dancers collapse has left a fragmented field of possible alternatives to netanyahu leading the pack is yeah peed dances form a partner in blue and white a former finance minister in an earlier netanyahu government and now the number one target of netanyahu his campaign that by now he didn't start this way but now is this complete cynic and he says this is the tool of they've worked in the us from the things he doesn't want us to talk about. lapidus tried to downplay his own prime ministerial ambitions wary of netanyahu as attempts to cost the election is a $2.00 horse race in which the peat becomes the scary left winger gideon rod of the israel democracy institute says a split field makes it more difficult for the prime minister that don't you know

would like us to choose between 2 good chocolates but you have to face many chocolates let's say and if you think about the voter as a consumer this is much more problematic for him and then yell in the unlikely chocolate box of israeli politics natalee bennett would be found well to the right of the prime minister he rules out working with lockheed but leaves the door to joining netanyahu at least partially open not so good on sar share your. different than the painful truth is that netanyahu prefers his own personal interests over the interests of the country his decision to leave the couldn't challenge him from the right at the head of his new hope party was the big news is the campaign began with his promised late surge in the polls has failed to happen. for all that's changed in terms of the lineup of challenges one thing has remained constant throughout this 2 year political crisis it really is all about benjamin

netanyahu ari force of al-jazeera west jerusalem. let's bring in our guests and westerners and then we have gayle hoffman chief political correspondent at the jerusalem post in london we have your book senior consulting research fellow at chatham house very well welcome to you both thanks for joining us here on out there is inside story i'd like to begin with you gayle. and take that statement posed by our correspondent turn it into a question are these elections really now just about benjamin netanyahu. unfortunately you know i would have loved it if the election would be about serious issues like the economy and matters of religion and state where israel's final borders should be and the goshi ation of the palestinians that are inevitable take place under joe biden but no there are about the person who is our

minister now longer than any president and his role in 3 who is abroad bigger people you there. and as long as you how majority of people in israel who agree with that all but a majority of people in israel who don't want that to get out to remain in office especially under criminal indictment we seem doomed to continue with political. together is that the only factor at play here explain to our international audience if you can how the country got to this point all that all just think about netanyahu well we were supposed to have a government that was up for years and that had no vitiated an early election and the and the funny thing is that the place in april 29th and that no government could be formed a couple times that a government that only lasted a year and that's what led to us proving on syria that that would be. doing the same thing over and over and over and over again and expecting

a different result you'll see michael that will that be a different result. what i don't think we can expect and i met cliff your physically so as i think you news are a lot of chicks saying to you look at the mountains because you're talking about their 2 blocks and the and it's not even between the sky then left anymore between anyone but b.b. all the one only b.b. and this case was left and i fully agree we giggle about this analysis is that it's almost an accidental and about about an attorney oh but when we sell a friend of mine that i know is in it and you know the person the way he handles himself in his apartment is to buy the same time also he's likable the very things that there's no mentioned just before the election of the palestinians shoes but there can only if the way they hold the faith mantling which one of arms has been.

you need say that it's a dead end of the day so the elect today as i said if the info election so you're only doing voted exactly votes very similarly patently so similar how would expect to get defense this us we'll see but the most important thing is to look by the end of tomorrow well that of there is any shift in the blocks and to go again not necessarily your logic 0 but small those who want 'd to see the end of the in it and you know are those and those who was trying to keep cleaning up get off then what do you think is netanyahu his calculation here i mean obviously he's hoping that it had greater majority will give him more power but what would that mean for his fighting the corruption charges that he's facing. so now the trial has finally started after being pushed off and pushed off and there's no doubt that if you're

in any country if you are in power when you're going to trial enough and average citizen. if we keep on going to elections by israeli law the caretaker government between elections still led by the prime minister and it's technically possible that if you don't reach the funny get out ahead of the last election the alternative prime minister could result in him taking power but right now as you know has a legal interest staying in power as long as they can in line with other calculations you know use that word. over here that the vaccine we've had 44000000 500000 israelis vaccinated in a country of $9000000.00 people of which a 3rd are under 16 and too young to be vaccinated so we're leading the world in back nations and you know i don't think the people of israel to thank them for that and so right shoulder when they go to. we can now bring in

a akiva eldar who is in tel aviv political analyst. i keep al to i want the same question to you do you think that this deadlock and repeated elections has has shaped the way the vote is in israel will vote now is it in any way about policies for the vote. i think it's more. love this was in it and you know oh hate business and you know it's own this and if you remove it or turn you know the person and then you know from the equation 1st of all we wouldn't have the force actions and i'm not sure that this is the last one this year. people cannot be indifferent and they don't talk about 'd patients they don't talk about him calling me yes some people are grateful that he wrote the vaccines but there are many people who lost the jobs almost double relatives due to his.

problematic i would say mud of the. dog to the 19 and busy. i really got fed up and they. say it's more oh go to the beach is getting very warm here are nice outside and many young people believe that it's going to be business as usual why the false time will be different so i'm discerned the 2nd oh the 1st time my granddaughter is still 19 and this is to say that she is going to visit a bed at the station and i have to work very hard to convince her to take the effort. you'll think michel that i might come back to you what is the impact of having all of the thin actions. well i discourage constant instability in

israel the inability to hold a country to move away from the and you know to take a different the 2 actually thinks the clearly all 'd in so many the issue really isn't only so please don't you wish within you know full glass full of evils he has been under investigation and on the thing we discussing is really the only time you know susan goes and whether it's accuser says that the people you love with him a little tough. love you freeman not the other half whimsically to see him go but at the same time though dire consequences there cannot be consequences of what we need to be addressed in the highest unemployment level. those that are obviously the usual don't you beijing and do need to sort one unfold 'd in a discriminant based on 2 state solution to the issues with the other students you know and so many other issues but the send them then attend you know issue

compromised bt to actually 2 of this any serious issue of concern for the citizen and this can be healthy for when these things get hoffman talked me through netanyahu his main challenges are what they bring to the table and how much of a threat they really pose well it would have been a lot harder for him and it would and then his main competitor in this race were be a challenger right and look why there would be a main challenger by his or her opponent aren't. bennett built up credit with the people of israel when he focused in coronavirus in a very a way 1st minister. but then he lost. and then came along and he could mess them up and you don't start 1 with the former education very. minister and for a while he was the main challenger and now he's lost more than

a ha or that he had won this election was all and that's one of the he was a centrist the former journalist anchorman who is a former finance minister coming from the center and prevent the prospective center he makes him very easy competitor against that's it. and that's a go for so many decades in politics and trying to make a left wing about her to the citizens of israel and it's pretty easy to do that with the ied for netanyahu to be defeated you would have to have a strong heart of a he saw our adam bennett together and it remains to be seen whether that's ok what does all of this political deadlock i guess is the would mean for the smaller posses including for the arab parties might they end up being the make or break the future coalition it. would have to. use and before busy we

opened the balancing stations we can say all the code is losing because people don't believe in desists. june. we need to see the believe the trust in democracy they see that it's business as usual they get used to gauge the person who is indicted in a very severe charge and can get the men to hold the 1st time all of the. well he got it seems these previous times well you know the 1st time can get it from the president people even say that. 'd they can deal with. this and get their support in voting for him to be the next president so as president rivlin will finish his term. 'd i think that the fact that it's

a neocon vids israeli arabs whom he has diligent in mice so many years to so. i think that this is another slap in the face of the efforts he's ready 'd and tell him that we believe that we can tell you again. that someone doesn't believe in for existence was the is what it can be you lead so 'd i think that all that. was lost trust people was going to conduct during the 19 the crisis i think that he could do this losing because. then he began to others so we are not full of politics he's either you hope for the 1st. time you

know oh mr peet and it's not about initial yeah but i want to i want to bring in i want to get your feedback will back on this point why has the net been unable to provide a credible alternative to benjamin netanyahu. i want to think we need to look at it too so it clearly i think the label wasn't if you drank from 977 not even 5 cos the biennale i think a lot still below the national vote elect so on so many years and if you can move any kind of even if you lie which appears instead of the working classes and out of the privilege if in the society they actually appeared to that made this i sonata middle class a scintilla of even going to be against and so it's well defended the response of the hopefuls on and as a result between the label of the and measures that are going to come based basic you for peace and instead of actually having the ability to reach out to the white

population that you would expect they will have a clear sense i think that i should you know of the left good news that isn't tolliver the so sure can omit want and yell though he has done nothing for the working classes and under privileged is a society they see him as though the present at the and also i think their local color is to set a little tail of the if when it comes to the relation of the palestinians to the fact that even the labor party is not loaded to talk about or few patients use the occupation during the selection so that they've lost their way there are a lot to police sent in those tendencies it's always tell it even also to be patient by resenting this other than the it to fight not only the selection but the next in the election until this kind of skin of the ability and won't do why the population of the moment became an issue the biggest was that a few people in ok hoffman we haven't even mentioned benny gantz i mean he was

meant to become a get as prime minister and the rotating prime ministership is this election going to be the last we hear of him i agree but again. ready. very frustrated with what they've been through over the previous year year and a half in israeli politics the army to be a lot more pleasant situation he said of the army. if you kill your own if they don't come back you know what it is really politics they do. then again it will be a component of the planets and you know that into the bring it down and i want to be a little bit more optimistic than both the other speakers here. i want to differ with you see on the labor party the. new labor chairwoman is reviving the r.v. she's doing what jesus did in reviving the dead and it's very impressive to see this all get new life and i want to differ with the keep up when it comes to

israeli arabs there's been a fascinating change on the israeli arabs months or a promise 1 that leader of the united arab list party wants to cooperate with the israeli government no matter where it is on the political spectrum in order to help the israeli arab citizens for decades israeli arab party said no we don't wait for this really process to be solved but when you have the interim accords and they saw the u.a.e. and iran aren't waiting for the palestinian conflict to be solved that israeli citizens in israel don't have to wait either and it could be the boss will be the baker in the selection and this will result in the infrastructure and the education systems finally being true in that arab sector and then being the big winners of this race to keep al that do palestinians care about the israeli elections i think that the. israeli. would rather spend his time to morrow and impeach then standing in line and the better to

expectations. people who just don't care so much anymore i will offer you a dialogue a good yada day between 2 is where it is if this will come up good one said you know 'd. who else to do you have any other candidate as was mentioned before you have an alternative. and the other guy said you know but what happens if you know who is now 71 1 going on 72 or that means if he is gone we have but this is not been good you know like when i came back in just that way and there was a replacement. the cemetery. leaders who were were in place and so the guy said i could. also use his son was succeed so

as i mentioned before and he was serious about it ok went on i've discussion i want to come back and ask you again. what about how liftin iand do palestinians care about the intervening election. that they're going to see any evidence lost completely though hope and change and i'll add to the discussion of the american elections they were hoping to hear something for president the new american president by then. you can see actually this is the 1st time in the last 4 elections that antonio doesn't have his american friends on his side too so was moving an embassy you all approving and they say she didn't know he was ours on. it's you or me to. i.c.c. the international. criminal court above the indicted no investigation.

group. offenses you can see that but i couldn't tell that. i didn't hear that he and the palestinians to reopen their embassy in washington so i think they lost the only hope and this is where they lost hope in the oh well you see what's happening in the gulf countries they welcomed their east this guy who came by 1 is the most. 'd joyous expression for these weapons he's. ok i want to say we are we are coming to the end of time i want to bring in yossi meco back we i think everyone seems to be on agreement that the palestinian issue doesn't seem to be a factor in these elections why is that is it because you know voters have already got their entrenched positions where they stand about the illegal occupation of

palestinian territories how they feel about cumin rights or is it that it's just simply not being talked about. i think what people listen so is a small decision you know one so-called successes of the time you know and he's our lives he's their ability to marginalize the issue and it's really society lives in complete denial about the fact that they decline a nation out of their lives or souls that their own nation and their and the consequences of an intentional action that if i speak ill of their basic human rights so this is one thing and the same time the international community shows nearly into they see what's happening in palestine under the current situation settlements out of public spending the jewish population in the west bank in new joselo is going we saw how the military its civilian population of the settlers and the international community does basically nothing with the

exception for instance now there are you see if you add to the east there is a sense at all 'd so diligent settlers get out them on the palestinians and the divisions among them so that they get the to find common ground between the hamas and the fact that the west bank and the west bank and guns out there is a really should hear back whatever happens these are still going to be affected by what happened on the palestinians and vice events of course they haven't happened it's right it's a situation is not going away and it's needs a peaceful solution we are going to have to leave it there for a time my apologies thank you very much to all that after joining us here on inside story of keep al the hoffman and you off the nickel. and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site al jazeera dot com and for the discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for the inside

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