Israel's Netanyahu officially tapped to form government
Source: ABC News
Israel's president officially tapped former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government on Sunday, ushering the long-serving leader back to power after a one-year hiatus. With Netanyahu comes what's expected to be Israel's most right-wing coalition ever.
Elections earlier this month indicated a clear win for Netanyahu and his ultra-Orthodox and ultranationalist allies and ended the short-lived, ideologically-diverse government that had ousted him last year after Netanyahu's 12 consecutive years in power.
Though political horse-trading began as soon as the election results firmed up, Sunday's development means Netanyahu now has up to six weeks to conclude negotiations and cobble together a government.
Netanyahu struck a conciliatory tone at the Jerusalem event where Israel's ceremonial President Isaac Herzog bestowed upon him the task of forming a government. Netanyahu played down concerns by Israeli liberals and some of the country's international allies that Israel was entering a dark tunnel with his expected government.
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peppertree
(21,639 posts)Such is the world.
flying_wahini
(6,611 posts)He is trouble in a big way.
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)A fucking game of whack-a-mole with these fuckers! I can't wait until many of the older ones - the ones funding a lot of this shit - die off.
I'm beginning to have thoughts that I can't express here about the trajectory and psyche of a certain country now that this has come to pass.