Ap Analysis: Advantage Netanyahu In Close Race

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's election has yielded a fractured parliament and no clear winner, setting up a horse-trading phase that seems likely to leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in place and in ever deeper confrontation with the world. Politicians and pundits have assessed that the former Likud figure with find it awkward to crown the opposition unless Herzog's party, the Zionist Union, enjoys a cushion of several seats over Likud. If Kahlon does go with Netanyahu, it would give the hard-liner a fourth term that, if completed, would make him Israel's longest-serving leader, eclipsing the nation's founder David Ben Gurion. The Palestinians have already said they would take their case against Israel to war crimes tribunals and other international bodies. Kahlon's platform is moderate, as are top lieutenants in his party, and despite his Likud roots he has supported the idea of peace talks. The issue has defined Israeli politics ever since the 1967 Middle East war, which cemented Israel as a regional power but saddled it with occupied territories including the Palestinian-populated West Bank and Gaza Strip. [...] there are parties for Russian immigrants, Sephardic Jews, different types of religious Jews, secular and progressive citizens, the European-oriented middle class, and a new union of Israeli Arab parties that individually are nationalist, Islamic or socialist.

 

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