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There's a lot of dirty money flowing around the Western Balkan countries, as organized crime groups expand their efforts well beyond the region. And it appears that much of that loot is getting laundered through a deeply distorted property market. And something definitely seems wrong with the butter in Canada.

It's just too hard.

Our correspondent examines a mystery that's come to be known as Buttergate. First up, though, the political rivals of Binjeman Netanyahu appear to be closing in on a deal that would end his reign as Israel's longest serving prime minister.

Yesterday, opposition United Israel can be a den another. Yesterday, opposition leader Yai Yer Lepid announced that, in a week, the state of Israel can be in a different era. His is one of a group of parties attempting to form a coalition that would remove Mr. Netanyahu from power. Mr. Lepid labeled it a unity government. The prime minister in such a coalition would, to begin with, be Neftali Bennett,

a former aide to Mr. Netanyahu, who now leads his own right-wing party.

He said the partnership would rescue Israel from a tailspin.

Arranging a workable coalition will be a challenge.

The parties have fundamentally conflicting ideologies.

Another obstacle, Mr. Netanyahu himself, who warned in his own press conference on Sunday

that such a government would be a threat to Israel's security. After four elections in two years,

political stability is long overdue in Israel. But a convoluted effort simply to unseat Mr. Netanyahu might not be enough to get there.

So it's going to be a very unwieldy coalition, parties from all across the Israeli political spectrum.

Anshilfeffer is our Israel correspondent reporting from Jerusalem.

The right is going to be Yamina, headed by Naftali Bennett, New Hope,

which is a new party of Likud rebels,

and Israel Beitone, which means Israel, our home.

From the center, the main parties,

Yeshati, the largest party in the opposition, led by Yerla Pid, who is also the architect

of this government, blue and white, led by Benny Gantz.

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