Israel's Record Turnout Ends in Another Classic Political Deadlock
Everyone showed up to vote, but the math still refuses to make sense for Netanyahu or his rivals.
It feels like we have been here before, and that is because we have. Voters turned out in record numbers to decide the fate of Israel, but the result is a total mess. Neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp nor the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot managed to grab the 61 seats needed to run the show alone.
The country is effectively stuck in political limbo. Netanyahu is currently juggling three corruption trials while trying to convince his old religious and nationalist partners to hop back on the bus. Meanwhile, the streets are tense enough that Yair Golan—who is now under security protection—was nearly attacked with a knife at a polling station. The deep divide is real, and the next few months will likely just be a giant, miserable game of legislative musical chairs.
It takes a special kind of talent to keep the steering wheel after driving the bus into a wall for three years straight.
Source: UPI
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