The Israeli prime minister seeks to disempower the Supreme Court in order to avoid going to jail and to keep his radical government coalition together.
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New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, and the
Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa.
[ Editor’s Note: Bibi goes into this third election on March 23rd with the country’s faction seeming to be frozen in stone, a sign of a very stubborn people who refuse to compromise. And we have a pending irony that a Muslim party could end up as the kingmaker.
A Sunday TV poll predicted continued deadlock after the election, with the pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs evenly split, and the Islamist Ra’am party narrowly crossing the electoral threshold to become possible kingmaker, and it has vowed to take a more pragmatic approach about cooperating with a coalition.