well let's bring in our guests now and joining us from tel aviv is akiva eldar israeli economist for the out and co-author of the biography of former israeli president shimon peres from zagreb professor in international relations at regents university in london and associate fellow in the middle east and north africa program at chatham house and from western islamists will baraka c.e.o. of keeping global research and a speechwriter for former israeli prime minister ariel sharon and former israeli president shimon peres a very warm welcome to all of you mitchell how much damage is this intent to indict by the attorney general it's caused benjamin netanyahu. well it really depends who you ask because for the faithful of netanyahu this is going to embolden a lot of them to get out to the polls the prime minister and this was not so much of a surprise i mean i think he would have liked to get off on one or two of those cases but it's not so much he's prepared everyone that this is going to happen and what he successfully done over the last few weeks is he's actually made this into a poli

well let's bring in our guests now and joining us from tel aviv is akiva eldar israeli economist for the out for a monitor and co-author of the biography of former israeli president shimon peres from zagreb professor in international relations at regents university in london and associate fellow in the middle east and north africa program at chatham house and from western islamists will baraka c.e.o. of keeping global research and a speechwriter for former israeli prime minister ariel sharon and former israeli president shimon peres a very warm welcome to all of you mitchell how much damage is this intent to indict by the attorney general it's caused benjamin netanyahu. well it really depends who you ask because for the faithful of netanyahu this is going to embolden a lot of them to get out to the polls the prime minister and this was not so much of a surprise i mean i think he would have liked to get off on one or two of those cases but it's not so much he's prepared everyone that this is going to happen and what he successfully done over the last few weeks is he's actually made th

committee to ban an alliance of arab israeli parties from voting in next month's elections we're joined by akiva eldar senior columnist at monitor and he's live for us and kind of a vista al the always a pleasure to have you with us on al-jazeera i know that you think the supreme court will actually overrule the election committee's disqualifications as they have in the past before the elections but that hasn't stopped various parties from trying to get others disqualified. yeah you know that we are in the midst of. election campaign and this is a catch as much as you can have lines it's kind of a routine it's. the script is written before even appealed to the committee and asked. to be legitimatized each other and this supreme court as you mentioned elizabeth. several times that democracy is really the marker see can deal with racism as long as it doesn't call for violence the redline is violence and actually this is a kind of a game that israel is playing to show the world that israel is a democracy parties can appeal to the central committee too and then the supreme court will dismiss it and

controlled in occupied by israel anyway we'll leave it there for now thank you so much akiva eldar absolutely writes and thank you. plenty more still ahead on the news. and. pretty. much. the end of the could be just the beginning of legal problems plus. serious concern. over. politicians. for the european football championships. and we will be here with that story. in an unprecedented move m.p.'s in britain the voted to take control of the braggs agenda from the government politicians say they want to make progress after the government was defeated by three hundred twenty nine votes to three hundred two on amendments to it that agreement on wednesday politicians will begin the process of deciding on a series of alternatives to prime ministers reason made deal she's been rejected twice. and the barber joins us now from outside the u.k. parliament in london what do we know will happen exactly in parliament this week take us through it all. ossama is not precisely clear but we do know that your reason may suffered another big defeat in the commons on monday night she had actually had government

when likud and benny gantz centrist blue and white party neck and neck we can get more in this from akivaeldar who's a senior columnist for al monitor as israel pulse and he joins us now by skype from tel aviv thank you very much it's very good to speak to you we've been talking about trump's recognition of israel sovereignty over the golan heights but before we get to that can we. have a quick word about this latest. basically exchange between israel and from the gaza strip this exchange of fire and can you tell us what kind of an impact or work or how that affects now netanyahu campaign of political campaign for these elections. well the past campaigns showed that it could the israeli right always when it is from violence. it seems that the hamas and the israeli settlers government are kind of psionic two ways in eighty eight actually it was a touch and go between the labor party and the likud we were in shimon peres and. prime minister shamir and there was a terrorist attack just a few hours before they opened the balloting stations and the israeli public always prefers when the time c