Israeli Parliament votes out Netanjahu - What are the consequences?

A few weeks ago Israel elected for the fourth time in 2 years to create a new coalition of parties that can build an effective government that is supposed to help Israel solve regional problems and stabilize the country. This election is probably one of the most important in Israel's history because a strong government is needed very quickly, also facing the regional conflict between Jews and Palestinians that escalates more and more.

The background - Netanjahu’s strategy to stay prime minister

For a couple of years, the former prime minister Benjamin Netanjahu was able to avoid a stable government and forcing the parliament to new elections in a very fast rhythm. Due to this strategy, Netanjahu was the prime minister of Israel for more than 12 years, but Naftali Bennet, leader of the national conservative party, has avoided the fifth election, by building a cabinet with seven other parties of the whole political spectrum. This success is probably connected to the fake news Netanjahu published to avoid the empowerment of the new coalition and thus his deselection. For example, he claimed that an own country for the Palestinians come closer because the Bennett-Lapid coalition won’t forbid this, but this is factually false as the party program proves. Also, Nethanjau claims that the new coalition would cooperate with Iran, which is kind of an enemy of Israel, but also this was proven as false in a speech just some minutes ago. This shows how Netanjahu wants to influence the people of Israel.

After 12 years of Netanjahu - how Lapid and Bennett are creating a new coalition

The former prime minister Benjamin Netanjahu, leader of the conservative party “Likud”, had a central course with his political decisions, which was for a long time very comfortable with the feelings and opinions of the people in Israel. After 12 years the feelings and opinions of the people want a change, but this won’t come an easy way, because the party behind Netanjahu always got 25% to 30% of the votes. After 4 elections in 2 years the leader of the big central party called “Jesch Atid”, Jair Lapid and the leader of a national conservative party called “HaJamin HeChadasch” Naftali Lapid built a coalition with six other parties with different political directions like left-wing parties, Arabic conservatives, social democrats and centrists.

The coalition - uniting every political direction

It’s a big question whether a coalition of eight parties of different political directions can build a strong government. On the one hand, it would be helpful to represent the whole political spectrum and generate more votes, but on the other hand, it can be a big disadvantage because passing laws will be a very intensive process. It’s much more difficult to set laws that are willed by every single party of the coalition. Furthermore, Netanjahu isn’t out of the whole political discussion. From now on he will be the leader of the oppositionists and probably tries to blockade the few laws that passed the government intern process.

This coalition of many parties brings a big risk with it. If the government won’t be able to show strength in the next weeks and months a vote of no confidence or other means of the opposition may be used to overthrow the government. That would be a good case for Netanjahu because now he seems like the only possible option to bring back the feeling of a strong government. Also without any engagement of Netanjahu, a weak and disunited government would be the worst-case for unstable Israel, so we just can hope that the new government will function as predicted.

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