Natan Sachs on the Israeli Governance Crisis
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🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Natan Sachs is a Brookings senior fellow and the head of the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy, part of the Brookings Foreign Policy program. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Natan to talk about the results of the Israeli election, which are still unclear amid a haze over the entire political system. They talked about what the dispute between the camps is about, the many different factions and what they want, and why they can't sit together easily in a government. They also talked about the fact that Israel doesn't have a budget for the second year in a row, and they discussed whether anyone will be able to prevent the fifth election in two years.
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| 1:08.6 | Having failed to win four times, we didn't lose, but he didn't win four times. He would |
| 1:14.1 | have done what any Prime Minister in Israel would have done, or what a Prime Minister in |
| 1:17.6 | the UK would have done had they lost, or presidential candidate in the United States. He would |
| 1:21.9 | have said to himself, I've served longer than any Prime Minister in history of Israel. |
| 1:26.2 | I can retire to my beautiful home in Kaisali and Cisarria and enjoy time with my family. |
| 1:34.0 | Instead he's refusing to do so. Had he done that, his only coup party would easily form |
| 1:39.4 | a new coalition, a stable one comprised of like-minded right-wing parties and sail smoothly |
| 1:46.8 | into the future. And so we are beholden at the end of the day to the fate of one individual |
| 1:51.8 | who's on trial. |
| 1:52.8 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the Law Fair Podcast April 6, 2021. Natan Sachs is |
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