Israel’s prime minister is bidding for right-wing votes ahead of an election that is days away
OVER THE past four years, Binyamin Netanyahu has refused most interview requests. But as he fights for a fifth term as prime minister, in what looks likely to be a close election on April 9th, he has hit the television studios to appeal to right-wing voters. In an interview on April 6th he offered Israelis something new: annexation of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Mr Netanyahu has been prime minister for the past ten years, during which he has stubbornly refused to grant any concessions to the Palestinians. But he was also one of only two members of his party in the Knesset not to have come out in support of annexation of the West Bank. So why is he pushing for it now? There are two possible reasons: one political, the other strategic.
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