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News Analysis: Netanyahu’s Victory to Witness More Confrontation with Palestinians, Possible War Against Lebanon

by mosesman

http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/ashkenazi-jews-are-not-descendents-of-the-biblical-israelites-2/

  • News Analysis: Netanyahu’s Victory to Witness More Confrontation with Palestinians, Possible War Against Lebanon
    by Dana Halawi, http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm
    BEIRUT, April 11 (Xinhua) — Local analysts agree that as Israel’s Blue and White alliance led by Benny Gantz has conceded the electoral race, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is inching closer to forming a government for a fifth time.
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    Under his government, with the right-wing parties who are backing Netanyahu, conflicts will increase between Israel and Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, experts said.
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    “The political base inside Israel has shifted to the right. Today, everybody in Israel is speaking about security and there is no mention whatsoever for the peace process, the two-state solution or other economic issues that used to be a slogan carried by the left wing,” said Sami Nader, director of Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs in Lebanon, adding that the priority for the right-wing parties is the security of Israel.
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    Nader explained that Netanyahu not only transformed the Likud Party into a party defending the Jewish identity and security but also shifted the focus from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the confrontation with Iran. “This would say that the confrontation with Iran will witness more tension. It will increase and get sour,” he said.
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    Nader added that the U.S. President Donald Trump’s designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization one day ahead of the Israeli elections was meant to support Netanyahu in his electoral campaign. Moreover, Nader said that the chances of a war at present are greater than the past.
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    “Now that the elections are over, Netanyahu has nothing to lose. He can deal with the threat by waging a quick war that may include Lebanon as well,” Nader said, adding that Israel will go into a long and exhausting war. It tried in its 2006 war against Lebanon but failed to reach its objectives.
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