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Experts: End of Netanyahu’s era could be near but not certain

Tuesday, 01 June 2021 12:38 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 01 June 2021 12:38 AM ]

Mona Kandil
Press TV, Ramallah

Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year reign as Israel’s prime minister is much likely to end.

On Sunday, Naftali Bennett, a far right politician leading Yamina Party and Yair Lapid, a centrist and opposition leader of Yesh Atid party moved closer to forming a coalition after four inconclusive parliamentary elections in two years, and Netanyahu’s repeated failure to form a coalition.

Netanyahu accused Bennett of trying to form a “leftist” ruling structure that would ensure his rise to premiership. He said that Bennett, had been sowing “discord, division, and hatred” against him.

Bennett, said his party would work with the opposition leaders to build an alternative cabinet. Observers say the alliance between eight relatively small parties with a diffuse range of ideologies won’t be easy.

But if they succeed, they had agreed that the prime minister’s post would rotate between Bennett, a former settler leader who rejects the concept of a sovereign Palestinian state and champions the religious right, and Lapid, who is considered a voice of secular centrists.

Netanyahu has been holding onto power for the past 12 years. His popularity has, however, suffered an unprecedented plunge among the Israelis, who have been holding regular rallies outside his residence for months to force him to resign.

Today, Experts say nothing must be taken for granted, because what’s being described as the anti-Netanyahu cabinet of change is still not an accomplished fact. They say Netanyahu is not simply departing the scene without a fight for office.

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