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is benjamin netanyahu is telling the israeli prime minister has failed again to form a new government and his future will now be decided by the president what happens in israel if the political deadlock drags on this is inside story. welcome to the program. 2 years and 4 elections later israel is still no closer to having a government prime minister benjamin netanyahu missed a deadline to form
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a coalition by midnight on tuesday his opponents now have a chance to end the run of israel's longest serving leader. much of the impasse is jueteng netanyahu has legal troubles many allies say they wouldn't work with a prime minister who's on trial for corruption from western perry force it takes a look at the options to break the stalemate the time may have run out on benjamin netanyahu officially mandated period to build a coalition government but that doesn't mean he's going to stop anytime soon for all of this is like a political chess game in one respect at least it differs neither side has to stop playing just because their own personal clock has stopped ticking indeed we saw that during netanyahu is mandate when the opposition leader was doing everything it could to coax across the right wing political leader naftali bennett on to his side to change block trying to get together a coalition to oust netanyahu from power he offered naftali bennett the option to
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go 1st in a rotational arrangement as prime minister that's something that netanyahu has also offered to bennett and he's piling on a huge amount of pressure against him saying that it's his failure to commit to a right wing government that means that one has not yet been built that if he did so there would be defections and they would get across the line to the $61.00 seats required in the israeli parliament the knesset there is also some pressure from within its own party with at least one m.k. member of the knesset saying that they would not be happy to join lockheed in what would have to be a very broad left right coalition to oust netanyahu the greatest pressure the remains on netanyahu himself this is the greatest peril he's been in since the start of this political crisis but if anyone knows how to play the game right up until the last minute it is him and the final whistle has not yet been blown how to force it for inside story west jerusalem. and let's bring in our guests in west jerusalem gil hoffman chief political
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correspondent of the jerusalem post from london you'll see michael berg a senior consulting research fellow at chatham house and in tel aviv gideon levy columnist at herat snow welcome to the program let's begin in west jerusalem 1st with gil hoffman is this the end for netanyahu or are we going to see yet another election in israel. for the time being it's the end for an intern you know as prime minister i believe that a change government is going to be formed unity government will have israeli politicians from the right to the left running the country together and it's a gallop the opposition leader and i hope that he could bring the government down and make a political comeback he's 71 years old his father died at the age of $102.00 there's no politicians inside his own party who have the courage to try to bring him down so the only 'd thing that could really end this now is political career is
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a conviction in a court of law and he is on trial but that trial does seems to have been going on for many years he hasn't come to a conclusion he's beat he's won or at least run full of different elections in the last 2 years he keeps fighting back and we can't write him off this quickly surely no you absolutely cannot write about this quickly and he think it happened in a trial there'd been some suggestion that he would get a bit bed of kind of figure from within his likud to run the country while he works on the trial and then come back he chose to keep on fighting instead and try to remain prime minister he's banking on. the peat enough tony bennett not being able to form a government together the centrist and right wing leaders together maybe it will work but i don't think we're going to 5th elections in tel aviv gideon levy we've talked about this on the show the full the fact that netanyahu success isn't necessarily down to benjamin netanyahu it's down to the fact that he doesn't really
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have a credible opposition is that the case still. hate is the case but you know in order not to have meaningful opposition it takes source or some kind of or the qualities or the leader himself it i would argue is my friend before that there will not be thieves elections as it looks right now you know how it's afternoon in israel maybe in the evening could look different but right now 50 elections is the most probable possibility as i don't see any ultimate the government was or the respect to the unity government to yodel a p 2 enough that it bennett i don't see them having to but there are the why do you see a 5th election surely i've been to his or of covered many elections many times i've seen the frustration that israelis have and actually a lot of people when i was there last said to me if there's another direction we
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are just going to vote for benjamin netanyahu one an end to this we just want a government but that doesn't seem to of happened why do you think they'll be a 5th election. for the same reason why the wherefore selection sir the elections and 2nd elections because we are in a deadlock because israel is divided now into 2 camps and only 2 camps one came which is the meiers that the neo and then the other camp who makes him as a demo on a much more than he deserves by the way and both camps are not ready to compromise and as long as he will be in the game we will remain in this deadlock and it's very bad news for izzard's politics it's bad news also for the left it is that who is not capable of creating any alternative not personally and not they do in order to the. you know again london one of the defenses one of the key defenses
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benjamin netanyahu has had over the last few years he's often sold himself as the one man that can defend israel and the international community and sell them to the international community and particularly he trumpeted relations and i use that were deliberately with donald trump that's gone away now there's been a change of government and the us do you think israelis have taken that to heart you think they've taken a look at then you know him gone actually he's not quite a friend in the international community that we thought or do you think this is a purely domestic thing and that's why we're in a political deadlock when i think you either should look at the results of the last few elections is a very strong base and these bases. i would you know if you have no there is a division but it goes beyond division into 2 camps i think wish him to stand still that the vision that was supposed to turn you know as long as it's convenient there they make it that you most look if an early i don't think you really be there until
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he is 100 into i think reality she sing well i liked snick and you know if this is why i left my tour to be a bit longer it might depend on what happens in the quote. of the day i think i mean it's the men. who phone government is moving to someone else i think we'll see a new day numbing new movement seen usually all it takes and i think yes you know it's yes it's achievements along the years but compared to the damage that is inflicted on the country in the last 2 years the who option the decision depôt who do so i think they may need more and more easily understand that this is a time for change gideon levy do you think that's right you think he has created damage and destruction to the image of israel and that's why people that's why you're in a deadlock again. i totally understand your says concern and there are concerns
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'd of many many israelis but by the end of the day i seeing there was also a local of exhilaration about the damages let's take for example the democrats as to israel as the more course everyone is complaining looking deed to the damage the poor old who rule of law and who democracy but israel is a very weird democracy because it's a democracy only for jewish citizens so imagine yourself in south africa in apartheid south africa someone is damaging that the muck received there is its object a pastor piece it is it sucked at them it no because by the end of the day see the partial democracy so if you demonstrate or not it's not so freight what is great is the effect that is he's not a democracy but then above the state and therefore i cannot share those concerns
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about that than young destroy destroying israel's them ocracy. kill hoffman where are we at right now we've heard so much about various kingmakers nothing bennett one of the opposition leaders we've heard of months or about an islamist leader from the is connected to the joint these people were supposed to come to the rescue and give you a government that hasn't happened other and he can make his left. absolutely months or abbas is still a king maker and he's a fascinating one month 0 boss is the result of they were hammack or it's abraham accords took the thesis that the palace that the arab world does not have to wait for the arab israeli conflict to be solved the israeli palestinian conflict to be solved now before reestablishing ties with israel and if the train at morocco and the united arab emirates can't have relations with israel and monsoreau abbas said so can israeli arab citizens the israeli arab citizens weren't part of the
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israeli political establishment they were elected to the parliament but never part of the government and he's about to change all that and you know return for asking for things to improve the everyday life. the average israeli arab citizen their infrastructure the roads their education and that's something that even the most right wing government could agree to not talking about. the palestinian issue at all. do you truly believe that given that if he does a deal with benjamin netanyahu a lot of his own base ones who are about his own base are going to say but you just have to deal with the devil we call the view again do you truly believe that he can do this. iran that's what they voted for they knew what they were voting for they knew that they were voting for a man who is willing to cooperate with netanyahu or with anybody else who's
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stood up to different politicians across the political spectrum and said i'm going to care for my citizens for the 1st time and not about the palestinians not about the wider world it's revolutionary and it can change israeli politics forever because now a lot of the other 20 members of knesset the amount of members of knesset that are not willing to cooperate with an arab party is only 5 it used to be $100.00. and this change cannot be ignored and this will allow that change government to be formed which will have been a centrist right wing left wing jews and arabs you'll see mobility agreed you agree that it's a revolution. it is but i doubt if it can last if it's such a government who lost because in the end of the day it will and i think it's an interim government which we got until the show time until something else is happening because the bottleneck right now and usually politics. then we need that he's going to position there might be opposition within his look was party to and
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will try to play the same i think they're building look we've changed was positions there i think it's welcome news that an out of new cyclists in and party join us you won't go off and you can destroy it you know so we think it's softening to do to democracy that you'd like to see. i also think that you can get even worse if there is no immediate change which religion lies and flew on into society to be a way more willing to see it while at the same time with it also because the end of the occupation having said that i don't see any you mention cute make us i think there are so many to make this but i doubt if there is anything to in waiting and to meet the needs of any governments for 'd i think it's all just enough to make a difference beyond the very fact that you brought to the end of it and you know. i
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see this is an interesting scenario that is developing here which i want to put to all 3 of you but let me start with. gideon in tel aviv gideon it seems to me that whatever government comes across as if netanyahu isn't in it benjamin netanyahu is going to try and bring it down from within so almost any government that gets fault is going to be a handicap is that right do you think that's going to happen. no tied with a show i mean if there will be a new government formed what might make it for will be there impossible the structure of 'd the government itself because you take everyone and you put in one court then you'll try to cook it into an impossible thing because how real they mended when the 1st challenge will be in front of them they can't agree almost anything except of the hatred that would let them know that the only thing which unified them and therefore i don't think that yeah we'll make them fall they
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themselves will not survive but you know never say never and we might be surprised right now it seems impossible to maintain a government even not to form a government but to maintain a government. about after very careful with my words have but i'm going to be blunt is benjamin netanyahu a bigger threat to his readied backcross 8 out of power is he going to make problems for any government like um if he's not involved i think is a circular these are the more could see it were to the left 2 feet and when there is an opposition oh overall enough man because he's main issue right now this is called a no go to state you know to stop to do is call option cold case and total folger use really to do anything that he can actually be very dangerous you know from this opposition trying to guns and knives he speaks and work against you know the
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wall of slogans democracy against the justice system so no doubt about it and this is a time actually felice is call it cynical t.v. and others to try to stop him from doing that with all the left any decency in this side of the political mix gil the same questions here is he a bigger threat. what's wrong with having an opposition he's going to be the leader of the opposition from the right he's going to try to paint everyone in the government has leftists as he has been demonized and his competition now in his 32 years in politics it's worked for him quite well and so we are very much a democracy yeah you in fact we're too much of a democracy having 4 elections over the past 2 years and the very fact that the result of it is going to be a government that unites the people from right to left i think shows are more
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democratic than ever and i think that there's a lot of they can agree on not just hatred of nancy yeah how do you really they can agree on anything except for the palestinian issue they completely agree on security issues they completely agree on the economy they definitely agree that the pandemic is a bad thing and we do everything possible to prevent that from coming back to israel there's a lot they can do but the palestinian issue isn't really an issue within israeli politics right now so is that a thing that is that something that people are going to vote him. you know that's the thing that see the international community has this mistaken understanding that the israeli palestinian issue is the be all and end all in israeli politics when it hasn't been an issue for a very long time we've had 4 elections that are very much about mincing out personally and the palestinians just canceled their election that would have been their 1st election in 16 years so that what's going to happen is that the arab
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world is going to continue to increase its relations and size with israel because it's in their own economic good for their people regardless of the palestinian issue and the same is going to happen with israeli arabs improving their lives here inside israel people are moving on you'll see how much damage did netanyahu do will how much did he do to make sure that the palestinian issue wasn't an issue in domestic politics is that his legacy. as much as a man could take on more from the time you know contribution to chilling people trying to cue the 2 state solution is not only more i think there is almost a cause the book and there the fact that the palestinian issue doesn't play into israel political system doesn't many doesn't play hold in the way that it affects israel it affects a single day in klinsmann's of the if you patient how it affects the easily society
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what happens to a nation due to a few parties in the parties a little bit love their basic human rights effect is the impulse of what we see right now is a result of decades of folk here but asian now if his contribution no doubt and let's not forget when you ask about the position the contribution of for time yells incitement in what happened in 1905 in doesn't see nation of its being so 'd he's alone not only in these years in government but also in a position contributed to this disaster that there is still no 2 state solution to understanding what the film just lotion for the conflict 'd between diesel and a listing instead and it probably will continue. gideon levy what do you think do you think what is netanyahu is legacy is it the destruction of the 2 state solution or is it the fact that he managed to further the law bring the right to real power in his role which one is that you think 1st the pearl of their left was in power or
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for so many years. and i didn't see the lefties when is there is there doing much about the 2 state solution so let's not put it on a 20 hour show started much before israel never aired the private is the who really meant to put an end to the patient or to create an independent viable palestinian state so to put it on his shoulder for the good or for the bed is totally wrong. the 2 state solution was never born and now it's long time. and israelis couldn't care less and that that you know put his own contribution but i think that peace nobel prize winner shimon peres beat more settlements the netanyahu out so let's not put it on he he's legacy is that he put off the table not only domestically their word lost interest in the but it's the
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it's the arab world lost interest and by the stephens the palestinians are totally left with their own destiny right now without almost any supporters this was never the case ever since 1048 the arab world the connotes that everyone ignores them and this might be good news for israel except the one plank that israel remains an apartheid state so it's very dies then we put it off the table and we live in this illusion in this bubble of israel is that more corsi while 15 minutes away from my home there is a military tiring me one of the most brutal tyrant he saw nurse nothing less but this well let me we are running out of time but you want to ask each of you a question we've got about 3 minutes left so i want you to tell me a prediction if it's not prime minister benjamin netanyahu the prime minister of israel who will it be let's stop and west wrestling with gil hoffman if you think
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it might be a. naftali bennett who was nothing else protege is chief of staff is go and proved himself to be very professional in his handling of the pandemic has to pass mr is going to be our prime minister and the world will look at your student we've gone countries around the world and gone from having a very experienced leader to one less so and the entire region hopes that he'll do a good job and you'll see michael it's interesting if it is enough taliban it has often been called by. speaking press as being netanyahu lite i think that's what they want to say is he you think he'll be the next prime minister oh it will be also by minister lights and i don't think that's what he's really needs but i think doing. both political system works you might be a little supervision before. the you know i think if if if means it to him to lasts a long time and the muslim who. outcome would be
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a shift in action get in the video have any other predictions what do you think is not tell even as well you know it's very hard to imagine that indeed there are over a party of 7 seats now became evil 6 because one already declared that he doesn't go was able to such a government will become prime minister for what's a coup exactly does he represent the family bennett i mean a very very small group of israeli society it might happen but it will not last people might replace him the piedmont and have a bigger base but even let be that i can see them really maintaining a government but for years now when the israelis so divided over the issues. well let's thank all of guests gil hoffman. and gideon levy and thank you too for saying you can see this and all a previous programs again any time by visiting a website called in for further discussion goes well facebook page that's facebook
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