A second Nazi election proves Naziyahu’s grip on power is slipping
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A second Israeli election proves Netanyahu’s grip on power is slipping
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
In a sign of how politically vulnerable he has rapidly become, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu plunged Israel into new elections last week – less than two months after his far-right bloc appeared to win at the ballot box.
Netanyahu was forced to dissolve the 120-member parliament to block his chief rival, Benny Gantz, from getting a chance to assemble an alternative governing coalition.
Gantz, a former army general who heads the Blue and White Party, won 35 seats, the same number as Netanyahu’s Likud Party, in the April election, but had fewer potential allies to form a majority. So in September, Israelis will cast their votes afresh.
The ostensible reason for the parliament’s d...