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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — After 12 years, seven elections and three corruption charges, Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the prime minister of Israel.
Netanyahu, who served as Israel’s leader continuously beginning in 2009 and holds the distinction of being the country’s longest-serving prime minister, was removed from the job in a razor-thin vote in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on Sunday. The vote, 60-59, installed a new government with the narrowest of majorities, composed of eight parties spanning Israel’s political spectrum and dedicated to one goal: ending the Netanyahu era.
The new government is headed by Naftali Bennett, a right-wing former deputy of Netanyahu who broke away from him. Like Netanyahu, he is also the son of American immigrants to Israel, and as an adult lived for a time in New York City. He speaks fluent English.
In an address before the vote, Bennett thanked Netanyahu for his years of service, even as members of Netanyahu’s Likud party heckled him and shouted in attempts to drown out his speech. Bennet pledged to work on behalf of all Israelis. and to extricate Israel from the electoral crisis that has frozen its politics for two years, sending Israelis to the polls in four largely inconclusive elections since 2019.
“We are facing an internal challenge, a divide in the people that is being seen at these very moments,” he said as the shouting continued.
Bennett’s governing coalition is remarkable and unprecedented in ways that also make it appear precarious. It is the first government in Israeli history to include an independent Arab-Israeli party, the Islamist Raam, as a partner. It includes parties that are both staunchly right-wing and staunchly left-wing, in addition to two centrist parties. It has a record number of women serving as ministers. It was made possible only because several former close allies of Netanyahu joined his rivals.
That group of Netanyahu defectors includes Bennett, whose Yamina party holds only six of the Knesset’s 120 seats but served as a linchpin for the new coalition. The largest party in the coalition is the centrist Yesh Atid, which is headed by Yair Lapid. Lapid is slated to take over as prime minister in 2023, and will serve as foreign minister until then.
Choosing to skip his prewritten speech Sunday, Lapid denounced the hecklers in the parliament and apologized to his mother for the spectacle.
“I wanted her to be proud of the democratic process. Instead, she and every other citizen is ashamed of you, and reminded of why it is necessary to replace you,” he said.
The day was not without drama, a fitting end to recent weeks in which the future shape of the Israeli government was tense and uncertain. Netanyahu, who has called the new government dangerous and fraudulent, has put heavy pressure on the incoming coalition’s right-wing members to return to his side. In his final speech as prime minister, delivered ahead of the vote, he attempted to remind members of the parliament why he should remain as prime minister, running through a list of his accomplishments and warning that the new government would not be able to stand up to the security threats Israel would face, particularly from Iran.
“The prime minister of Israel must be able to say no to the American government,” Netanyahu warned, referring to attempts by the Biden administration to revive the Iran deal.
Under the new government, Netanyahu is leader of the parliamentary opposition, which is mostly made up of his Likud party and its right-wing religious allies. (Ayman Odeh, a Knesset member and head of the Arab Joint List, welcomed the outgoing prime minister to the opposition in a tweet Sunday.) In his speech, Netanyahu predicted that the new government will not last long, and that he would soon return to power.
Whether that prediction bears out depends on how well the new, ideologically incongruous government can hold together. It is sharply divided on nearly all of the core questions facing Israeli society — from the future of the West Bank to LGBTQ rights.
One potential area of common ground involves religious policy. This is the first government since 2015 that does not include haredi Orthodox parties. That means state funding for haredi institutions may be cut, and Israel could see liberalization of its laws regarding Jewish conversion, public transportation on Shabbat and a space for non-Orthodox worship at the Western Wall.
For now, however, the new government has accomplished its primary objective: removing Netanyahu from office. Netanyahu, who also served as prime minister from 1996 to 1999, had become nearly synonymous with Israel during his decade-plus in power.
He was known internationally for his campaign against the Iranian nuclear program and for his close personal involvement in Israel’s relations with the United States — from his frosty attitude toward Barack Obama to his close friendship with Donald Trump. Within Israel, supporters hailed him for a long stretch of steady economic growth; relative security, day-to-day, for Israelis; close relationships with world leaders; the string of normalization deals last year with several Arab states; and, recently, a world-leading COVID vaccination drive.
Opponents in Israel derided him for maintaining the status quo regarding Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, as well as for a persistent housing crisis. He passed a controversial law in 2018 defining Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, which critics said marginalized Israel’s Arab minority. American Jewish organizations as well as some secular Israelis also criticized him for perpetuating haredi control of Israel’s religious establishment, to the exclusion of non-Orthodox Jews.
Except for a period of several years about a decade ago, Netanyahu has been a lifelong public opponent of a Palestinian state. In recent years, he had made pre-election promises to annex parts of the West Bank, which never ended up happening. And under Netanyahu, Israel conducted three major offensives against Hamas in Gaza, including the 2014 Gaza War and the recent fighting in May.
In 2019, Netanyahu was indicted for fraud, bribery and breach of trust — the first time a sitting Israeli prime minister went on criminal trial. The trial sparked a protest movement that demonstrated regularly outside the prime minister’s residence, calling on Netanyahu to resign.
Netanyahu has denied the charges and vowed to fight them. He persisted in office with a shrinking group of allies who proved too few to form a governing coalition. Last month, after considering joining a coalition with Netanyahu, Bennett instead worked with Lapid to assemble a “change government” that would remove Netanyahu from his position.
“Benjamin Netanyahu replaced as Israeli Prime Minister after 12-year rule”
A lot of their other Zionist moles are not yet gone. Many of our lowly informed South Sudanese just worship these vermins/parasites. When they don’t know, these evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs are nothing to do with the Biblical Israelites, but a bunch of Eastern European who low lives who converted to Judaism en masse in 8 A.D. And because of their dirty life styles of worshiping profits over human being life. The white European became suspicious of their dirty lifestyles. First the Spaniards, kicked them out of their country. The Ottomans welcomed them today North East Turkey. The Germans became uncomfortable with their dubious life styles and treachery. And that was what led a man, Mr. Adolf Hitler to round them up and gassed them at Auschwitz.
And another European dictator, Mr. Josef Stalin abhorred them (Jews) to death. That Netanyahu fellow and bunch of his other evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs even projected a few years ago that their so-called evil juus (so-called israel) have “a special interests in Sub-Saharan Africa” when an Indian prostitute, Priti Patel now interior secretary of the devil infested island England was brought here to South Sudan, came and lectured our country and our people about women rights.
Can an Indian piece of trash lectured a South Sudanese about women rights? To put this perspective, that Indian prostitute, Ms. Priti Patel. Her parents were kicked out of Uganda by Mr. Idda Amin Dada and they were welcomed into UK since they were the British slaves.
Again, a devil infested Island of England, a drunk piece of trash, Mr. Winston Churchill once proposed that the evil juus (so-called israelis) low lives would be “settled in Uganda or Madagascar”. The evils would have been dead, trust me.
The evils projected that their so-called “evil juus (so-called israel) attack dog empire, would expanse from Jerusalem to Euphrates Rivers, to Tigris rivers and right up to our Nilotic valleys and plains” And that evil empire would be “heralded in by the so-called most sovereign countries of the US, the UK and France, and the so-called evil juus (so-called israel) attack dog itself”
And that their evil empire would be financed by the gulf Arab states’ financiers, wall street and other rich thieves who have stashed away their loots in offshore countries like Adis Ababa (so-called ethiopia) prostitute, Nairobi, Kenya, Johannesburg, South Africa, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Hong Kong, London, Cayman Island, Panama et al.
Some of us who way way too well ahead of these parasites/vermins and their cheap and dirty intrigues follow or stalk us 24/7. But when we told our lowly informed South Sudanese idiots to let us round up these vermins/parasites and everything that is connected to evil white Americans, English people, their cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, Abeshas (so-called ethiopians), some of their Bantuses, their gulf Arab states financiers, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, their UN, their sleazy NGOs, their damned UNMISS mercenaries of Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis or Sri Lankans.
Kill them and throw the vermins/parasites into the Nile and be done with them.
Lowly informed South Sudanese fools. WW3 is going to start here in South Sudan and we are going to see who will be part of these vermins/parasites. Pure HATRED and RACISM lurks here. Catholicism, Anglicanism, Islamism, Voodooism, Judaism, Shamanism, Hinduism and other piece of -isms nonsense in the name of *humanitarian aid, donations, peacekeeping or human rights business scam again into our country and over our people ever ever again. And that piece of trash would be as good as dead, reasons pure HATRED and RACISM*.
It was South Sudan whom the evils were talking their damned