Natan Sachs on the Possibility of a Post-Bibi Israel
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🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
After two years of political tumult and no fewer than four national elections, Israel may finally be on the verge of forming a new government—one that notably excludes current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and would bring an end to the more than 12 consecutive years that he has spent as the country's leader. To discuss these late-breaking developments, Scott R. Anderson sat down with Natan Sachs, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of its Center for Middle East Policy. They discussed the new faces that will be leading Israel if and when this new government comes to pass, how Netanyahu is likely to respond and what it all means for the increasingly complicated relationship between Israel and the United States.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | The labor party will be back in government. |
| 0:36.9 | It's head Miramikha Ali whose Ministry of Agriculture Brookings I should say will be |
| 0:41.5 | likely an important minister and they will also have the Ministry in charge of the police |
| 0:47.4 | which is very important. |
| 0:48.8 | The Ministry has been terribly managed in the past year and we saw some of the terrible |
| 0:54.1 | consequences just recently. |
| 0:56.1 | But even Mirits, the far left Jewish-based party, it's Jewish Arab really but most of its |
| 1:00.8 | voters are Jewish, will have members of government including the cabinet, the head Nitsan Hove, |
| 1:07.2 | it will be a member of the cabinet and one of its members is Saoufahage himself as a |
| 1:11.0 | Palestinian citizen of Israel will likely be a minister as well, a minister of regional |
| 1:15.9 | cooperation. |
| 1:16.9 | So as you can see this is about as wide a coalition as you could cook up. |
| 1:21.4 | If I had heard of this a year ago I would have laughed, sometimes 2 am last night perhaps |
| 1:28.0 | I was laughing as well but it has become such surreal time in Israeli politics, we're |
| 1:33.5 | so deep in the twilight zone that this coalition actually makes sense in some strange way. |
| 1:39.8 | I'm Scott Aranterson and this is the LawFair Podcast for June 2nd, 2021. |
| 1:45.7 | After two years of political tumult and no fewer than four national elections, Israel |
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