Israeli Election Results with Natan Sachs
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Israeli election results are in—sort of—and the early count looks very favorable for former Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and the far-right coalition that he would bring to power. The results are not a hundred percent clear yet, but they're clear enough for Benjamin Wittes to sit down on Twitter Spaces with Natan Sachs, the director of the Center for Middle East Policy and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings, to talk through it all.
How did Netanyahu win while getting no more votes than the other side? How did he impose a unity on his side, and how did the other side fail to do so in a fashion that facilitated this? Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, and why is he the new power source in Israeli politics? And what can we say about the government that is going out—a government that ranged from the hard right to an Islamist party?
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| 0:29.0 | So what will Anthony Aldo do? |
| 0:33.0 | He will try to keep them as happy as possible |
| 0:37.0 | without interfering too much with real policy. |
| 0:40.0 | He has long held the view, which is perhaps with some truth to it, |
| 0:45.0 | that in many respects he is Prime Minister because he's so clearly more experienced |
| 0:50.0 | than anyone else in his cabinet, will be the one running the show. |
| 0:53.0 | He'll be the De facto defense minister, he'll be the De facto foreign minister, |
| 0:56.0 | whether he has a foreign minister or not, you know, if that could change over time. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast, November 3rd, 2022. |
| 1:08.0 | The Israeli election results are in sort of. |
| 1:12.0 | The early count looks very favorable for former Prime Minister Bibine Tanyaahu |
| 1:19.0 | and the far right coalition that he would bring to power. |
| 1:23.0 | The results are not 100% clear yet, but they're clear enough that Natan Sacks, |
| 1:29.0 | my Brookings colleague, who heads the Center for Middle East Policy |
| 1:33.0 | at the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings, joined me in the jungle studio |
| 1:39.0 | before a live Twitter space's audience to talk it all through. |
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