{"id":106410,"date":"2023-08-19T17:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=106410"},"modified":"2023-08-19T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T08:02:19","slug":"25-05-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=106410","title":{"rendered":"Gantz could have joined Netanyahu, now he’s complaining about the result"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Gantz could have joined Netanyahu, now he’s complaining about the result – opinion<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

YARON SCHWARTZ <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Israeli opposition could have become a part of the coalition, yet opted to boycott the option. Now they’re complaining about the government that did form.<\/strong>
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MK BENNY GANTZ addresses the Knesset plenum last month. \/ (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL\/FLASH90)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

MK\u00a0Benny Gantz<\/a>\u00a0can boycott Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government or complain about it, but he can\u2019t do both.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For more than four years, Gantz and other opposition leaders have insisted that they would not join a coalition with a \u201cprime minister under indictment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are two problems with that policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first is that after more than seven years of investigations into alleged wrongdoing and a trial that has been ongoing for three years and counting, the key case against Netanyahu is unraveling \u2013 and this without a single defense witness having been called to the stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The state of the trial was revealed in June 2023 when the three distinguished Jerusalem District Court judges hearing the case informed the \u00a0prosecution that it would be \u201cvery difficult to establish the\u00a0bribery charge against Netanyahu<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It emerged that the very charge that had sparked national turmoil \u2013 leading to five senseless rounds of Knesset elections and hindering the momentum of Mideast peace brought about by the historic Abraham Accords \u2013 does not hold water.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The second problem with the opposition\u2019s boycott of Netanyahu is that the voters grew as weary of it as they were distrustful of the indictments. Fully informed of all the charges against him, the lion\u2019s share of the public gave Netanyahu and the parties that would end up as his coalition partners a solid parliamentary majority of 64 out of 120 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rather than spurring Gantz and company to reconsider their intransigent stance and attempt, for the good of the country, to become a part of Netanyahu\u2019s coalition-in-formation, they chose to opt out and to whine about the one that he did forge.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Worse, they dusted off an old mantra used for years by Netanyahu\u2019s detractors at home and abroad \u2013 that the government is \u201cthe most extreme in Israel\u2019s history.\u201d Indeed, there is nothing new in that label. In a 2009 op-ed in Foreign Policy, for instance, former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy referred to Netanyahu\u2019s government as \u201cthe most right-wing\u2026 in Israel\u2019s history.\u201d In a 2013 piece for the Daily Beast, journalist Ali Gharib wrote that Israel had \u201cjust sworn in perhaps its most right-wing government ever.\u201d In 2014, Jeffrey Heller of Reuters stated that Netanyahu was \u201cwell-positioned to form what would likely be the most right-wing government in Israel\u2019s 66-year history.\u201d In 2015, Ishaan Tharoor wrote in The Washington Post: \u201cAn 11th-hour deal on Wednesday led to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forming the most right-wing government in his country\u2019s history.\u201d And in a farewell speech in 2016, then-outgoing-US Secretary of State John Kerry called Netanyahu\u2019s coalition \u201cthe most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other examples abound. Today\u2019s chanting of the tired mantra is simply more of the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The noise has been drowning out a crucial point, however: The Israeli opposition could have become a part of the coalition, yet opted to boycott the option. And now that Netanyahu has formed a government with other parties, the opposition is complaining.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Although in Israel\u2019s vibrant democracy it is legitimate to simultaneously boycott and complain, after 33 weeks of protests, it\u2019s time for Gantz and his gang to reach a candid compromise with the government.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The writer is a former head of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism\u2019s<\/strong> office in Washington and a senior analyst at Acumen Risk Ltd., a risk management firm.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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