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Analysis: Trump plan’s threat to Arab Israelis

Posted 12 February, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Moataz1997, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Among the many flaws of Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” – although one which has received little intentional attention – was its seeming proposal that thousands of Arab Israelis should be effectively stripped of their citizenship and transferred to a future Palestinian state. The US plan proposes that…

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Analysis: “The difference-maker in the 2020 election”? Labor and Meretz form poll pact

Posted 15 January, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party
Photo: משה שי, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Israeli Labor party and Meretz have announced a joint run in March’s general election. The deal agreed on Monday marks a landmark coming together of the Israeli left – although one driven by fear that they risked being shut out of the Knesset unless they teamed…

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Analysis: Bibi indictment leads to political chaos

Posted 26 November, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Israel is facing unprecedented political chaos after Benjamin Netanyahu was formally indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. The announcement from attorney general Avichai Mandelblit came less than 24 hours after opposition leader Benny Gantz gave up his efforts to form a government. Both he and…

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Analysis: Gantz gets his chance

Posted 23 October, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
ראובן קפוצ'ינסקי, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s opposition leader, Benny Gantz, will this evening be formally invited to form a government by President Reuven Rivlin. The president made the move after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to assemble a coalition in the required 28 days. Netanyahu did not request a 14-day extension. It is the second time…

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Analysis: Bibi teeters on the brink

Posted 2 October, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Benjamin Netanyahu’s decade-long spell in power may be coming to an end. A pre-indictment hearing into charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust levelled against the Israeli prime minister commenced in Jerusalem today, as his attempts to form a government following inconclusive elections last month appeared close…

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LFI Focus: To Bibi, or not to Bibi

Posted 1 October, 2019 in Analysis, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, LFI Focus
LFI Focus provides a periodic analysis on Israel-Palestine, providing an in-depth view of the issues that affect the region. Image: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This edition focuses on the fall-out from Israel's election in September 2019. You can read it here. To view other editions of LFI Focus, please click here.

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Analysis: The end of Bibi? Israel’s deadlocked election

Posted 18 September, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Image: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons For once, the polls were right. They had suggested for months that Israel’s general election yesterday would end in stalemate. While counting is not yet complete, exit polls and the current official tallies point to the same deadlock which followed April’s inconclusive general election. The results represent a massive…

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Analysis: Desperate Bibi’s “election-stealing” bill blocked

Posted 11 September, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Image: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons A desperate Benjamin Netanyahu was this week thwarted in an attempt to push through the Knesset a controversial bill allowing party workers to bring cameras into polling stations. With polls showing the opposition Blue and White party narrowly edging ahead of the prime minister’s Likud party ahead of next…

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Analysis: Will Likud ditch Bibi if election ends in new stalemate?

Posted 5 September, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: Matankic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons With less than two weeks to go until polling day, Israel appears to be heading towards another general election stalemate – the second in less than six months. Polls this week show neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor his principal rival, Benny Gantz, have succeeded in opening a decisive lead. Instead, they…

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Analysis: Israeli left unites for elections – but Labor stands apart

Posted 1 August, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons With only days remaining until Israel’s political parties must present their finalised slates for September’s general election, there has been further maneuvering on the left and right, and between Arab parties. Two weeks ago, the Labor party announced that it had agreed a merger with Orly Levy-Abekasis’s Gesher party.…

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