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7. NO. This was a misunderstanding of the Israeli parliamentary system ...
Wed Sep 18, 2019, 12:08 PM
Sep 2019

...that was widely shared (and widely debunked) on Twitter.

The "winner" of the election will not be known for weeks; it will be whoever is successful at putting together a governing coalition. Netanyahu has declined to state that he won't try to form that coalition. He was successful at doing so in a previous election in which Likud won fewer seats than a centrist party. Of course this time he's much more vulnerable (and also more desperate). So now he's implying that he'll seek a government of national unity instead of trying to put together a purely right-wing coalition.

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