Bernard Avishai looks at the various options after Israel’s very weird election result. His bet: Netanyahu forms a hardline rightist government and takes his chances bucking Obama.
MJ Rosenberg argues that a Netanyahu government without the neo-fascist Lieberman is better than a Livni government with him.
It’s worth remembering here that the end of Netanyahu’s first premiership was brought about in significant part because he got frozen out in Washington (his criminal behavior didn’t hurt either). In some ways, that’s what happened to Shamir’s government in the early 90s, which paved the way for Rabin’s return.
