For the 1st time in more than 10 years israel may not have a Prime Minister named Benjamin Netanyahu he has failed to form a Coalition Government twice this year the door is now open for his rival benny gantz to lead but will it be any easier for him to form a government and how might all this play out this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey Benjamin Netanyahu is the longest serving leader of israel he has been Prime Minister twice his 2nd stint lasting more than a decade some of even called him the magician of israeli politics but hes but are they able to convince his rivals to join him and form a government thats after 2 elections this year failed to produce a clear winner the Prime Ministers setback is an opportunity for the leader of the opposition blue and White Party Benny Gantz to form a coalition of his own but this doesnt mean netanyahu is out completely so lets take you through what could happen benny gantz will now have 28 days to form a gove
Remain too close to call. Rival bennyor his gantz secured a majority of seats in the knesset. We will go to jerusalem for the latest. Thenen striking gm workers have entered their third day on the picket lines. I want to be clear about something. This strike is about us, is about standing up for fair wages, Affordable Quality Health care, for our share of profits come and for our job security. Amy we will speak to longtime labor reporter Steven Greenhouse coauthor of the new book beaten down, worked up, the past, present, future of american labor. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace rereport. Im amy goodman. Israel is facing political turmoil as tuesdays election remains too close to call with 92 of the vote counted. Benjamin netanyahus iran party andbenny gantzs blue party appeared to be about type. The election was called after netanyahu failed to build a Coalition Government following an april election. It also came as net
A very forceful press conference designed right out of the gate to lay the blame at irans feet now much of the evidence displayed in there was a large volume of it might be arguably circumstantial thats certainly what iranian leaders are likely to say but the fact is that the sheer volume of information presented will be hard for anyone to ignore be irans enemies or their allies anyone trying to get to the bottom of what happened will find it difficult to ignore the sheer volume of information even though as you said when given the opportunity a saudi spokesman refused to point the finger squarely at iran now what irans government has been saying since the 1st bits of allegations came from the United States that iran was behind the attack on these saudi aramco facilities last week iran has said that that simply isnt the case they completely denied any responsibility and in the last 24 hours both irans foreign minister zarif and irans president Hassan Rouhani have said that the reason t
Remain too close to call. Rival bennyor his gantz secured a majority of seats in the knesset. We will go to jerusalem for the latest. Ththen striking gm workers have entered their third day on the picket lines. I want to be clear about something. This strike is about us, is about standing up for fair wages, Affordable Quality Health care, for our share of profits come and for our job security. Amy we will speak to longtime labor reporter Steven Greenhouse coauthor of the new book beaten down, worked up, the past, present, future of american labor. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace e report. Im amy goodman. Israel is facing political turmoil as tuesdays election remains too close to call with 92 of the vote counted. Benjamin netanyahus iran party andbenny gantzs blue party appeared to be about type. The election was called after netanyahu failed to build a Coalition Government following an april election. It also came as net
Form a Coalition Government and maybe the most important player is this man big door lieberman he leads an ultra nationalist Secular Party he quit is the defense minister back in april which ultimately led netanyahu to call the snap election and he is one of those who wants this unity government bill hamid covering events from west jerusalem for us it is close its basically as close as it was 5 months ago. It is and it is and it is in the sense that to chew main rivals which are Benjamin Netanyahu and benny gantz are again neck and neck it seems to be a. Blue and white party led by benny gantz has one seat is one seat ahead of likud and Benjamin Netanyahu we just have to wait for the final results to confirm that but so in that sense its not the same simply because this time benny gantz could very well be given the chance to try to form a government we just but that nothing will happen until president revealing this size who he was tasked with of. With that top. Yes now the other issue