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4. Bibi will do anything to stay in power
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 04:54 AM
Mar 2021

and I mean anything .

Few months ago he was chasing the arab vote , much to the amusment of everyone on the center and left of Israeli
politics .

See : https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-faces-protests-in-nazareth-as-he-continues-effort-to-court-arab-voters/

Now its the far right .

See : https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/HkuGs6lN00

Labour party leader Merav Michaeli has also criticized Ben-Gvir's political re-emergence, citing his incendiary conduct before the 1995 assassination of then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.


Michaeli, a Rabin disciple, said recently of Ben-Gvir: "The gun that killed Rabin and the vision of peace in 1995 has returned to assassinate Israeli democracy."

Israeli political analyst Shmuel Rosner told AFP that Netanyahu's tacit boosting of Ben-Gvir is further evidence he has "a great passion to rule and (is) willing to do a lot to remain in power."
"He's less interested in etiquette and what people will say or think and more focused on the simple arithmetics of how to retain power.
"If that means he has to push Ben-Gvir to parliament, that won't stop him," Rosner said.
In pursuing a seat in parliament, Ben-Gvir is seeking to follow another Kahane disciple Michael Ben-Ari, in parliament from 2009 to 2013, who was banned from the legislature by the Supreme Court over his racist and extremist views.


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