They agree Netanyahu has to go. Can they agree on anything else?
The eight parties that would make up the government include the far-left and the far-right, two-staters and annexationists. The coalition would be led by Israel’s first yarmulke-wearing Orthodox Jewish prime minister, and would be thea Reform rabbi, an openly gay party leader , and an Islamist. The inclusion of the Ra’am party breaks an unwritten rule of Israeli politics: that Arab parties do not serve in government.
The fact that such an unholy mutant of a government could even be a possibility is a testament to just how polarizing Netanyahu has become: These parties have nothing in common except a desire to remove the 12-year prime minister and current criminal defendant from power. Just two weeks ago, Netanyahu, when Bennett pulled out of coalition talks during the conflict with Gaza, saying he did not feel a government including Ra’am could adequately see to Israel’s defense in a conflict with Hamas.
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