Haaretz Election Podcast Kickoff: How far will Netanyahu go to stay in power?
About this episode
The inaugural episode discusses the political landscape ahead of the Israeli elections, focusing on Netanyahu's challenges and the Arab parties' coalition efforts.
In the inaugural episode of Haaretz’s new Election Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer welcomes the first weekly panel of Haaretz analysts who will be examining and explaining developments in the intensifying countdown to the fateful elections this fall. This week, senior analyst Esther Solomon and Palestinian affairs correspondent Nagham Zbeedat assess the state of a race in which neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opposition currently have a path to victory according to the polls. At the moment, “Netanyahu is more or less maxed out on however many people will still be loyal to him,” Solomon said. “He cannot crack the numbers to get anywhere near a majority to form a coalition.” She discussed the ways in which Netanyahu visibly battled for political survival in a hastily called press conference Saturday night – from his reframing of the ongoing bloodshed in Lebanon to an invitation to his opponents to join him in a unity government. Netanyahu’s call for unity and vow to do “everything to diffuse” a “civil war,” Solomon said, showed an extraordinary “degree of…
People in this episode
Host: Allison Kaplan Sommer
Guests: Esther Solomon, Nagham Zbeedat
Topics covered
- Israeli elections
- political analysis
- Netanyahu's strategies
- Arab political parties
- coalition building
- election predictions
Keywords
- Netanyahu
- Israeli elections
- political survival
- Arab parties
- coalition
- election podcast
- Haaretz
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Hadash, Ta’al, Balad, United Arab List, Joint List
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