June 3, 2021
Opposition chair and leader of Yesh Atid Yair Lapid notified last night, June 2, President Reuven Rivlin that he had succeeded in assembling majority support for establishing a new government. In other words, his party managed to sign, at the very last moment before his deadline expired, coalition agreements with parties representing a Knesset majority. Lapid must now preserve this majority support until the swearing in of the new government, expected in about a week, making sure no defectors impend on his 61 Knesset-member majority.
Championing a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been governing for 12 consecutive years, Lapid cobbled up a coalition that unites right, center and left-wing parties, including the Muslim Ra’am party, which will support the government from the outside. Thus, the eight-faction change coalition includes right-wing Yamina, New Hope and Yisrael Beitenu, centrist Yesh Atid, center-left Blue and White and
Letters
Turkish fascism
I think comrade Conrad’s article on fascism fails to achieve all the sixfold intention he states (‘Misusing the F-word’, May 27). He’s certainly right to insist upon clear and historically rooted definitions and also on his remarks against broadening the scope of the term in an inflationary and only pejorative manner. However, he bends the stick too much on to the other side.
The main problem is that he’s too stuck in history and the ‘classical’ cases of fascism, to the extent that this leads him to ignore the obvious fascistic sides of current phenomena he investigates. He intends to evaluate it globally, but only touches on his own native British case. He seems to be right to assume that fascism is not a current threat in the UK. I’ll leave aside the internal strategic debates of the country’s leftist organisations and continue on Conrad’s passing remarks about Turkish leftists’ evaluations of the nature of Turkish regime.
Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid says he has rallied the votes needed to form a coalition government to oust that of veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.