Palestine comes to the fore on Israeli election eve
With polls set to open within hours in the most competitive election in Israel since prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to the premiership in 2009, both parties aiming to form Israel’s next...
View ArticleThe definitive chart to deciphering Israel’s coalition negotiations
No matter who wins Israel’s election tomorrow, no party is expected to win more than a fragment of the seats necessary to win a majority in Israel’s unicameral 120-member parliament, the Knesset...
View ArticleNetanyahu takes graceless turn in election-day message
A quick thought experiment with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election day message to supporters to compare how it would sound in the context of American politics: Replace the word...
View ArticleIsraeli election results: eight things we know after Tuesday’s vote
As the results started to trickle in early Wednesday morning (Jerusalem time), the world started to get a better sense of the verdict of Israeli voters in the country’s second general election in...
View ArticleNetanyahu set for six-party, right-wing coalition
Photo credit to Marc Israel Sellem / Jerusalem Post. After Israeli president Reuven Rivlin finished talks with all of the country’s parliamentary parties on Monday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin...
View ArticleWinners and losers in the Iran nuclear deal
Photo credit to AFP / Getty Images. Today’s announcement of a deal between Iran and the ‘P5+1’ countries, with a final June 30 deadline looming, is being met with cautious optimism today as the...
View ArticleLieberman resignation rocks Israeli coalition talks
Foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman was once so close to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the two political leaders joined forces to fight the 2013 elections on a joint ticket. When...
View ArticleNetanyahu finalizes fragile 61-MK coalition
At nearly the last hour, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu finalized the smallest possible coalition possible. After Netanyahu’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman resigned on Monday and...
View ArticleOne chart that explains Obama era Middle East policy
Chart credit to Bank of America. Within a half-century, the most important fact of the Obama administration might well be that it presided over an energy boom that de-linked, for the first time in many...
View ArticleNetanyahu bolsters governing coalition at cost of alienating Ya’alon
Israel’s now-former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon speaks with US secretary of defense Ashton Carter in Washington. (Facebook) Israeli politics has mostly been kind to former generals and, until last...
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