Benjamin Netanyahu Is The Greatest Survivor Of Israel
On Sunday, Naftali Bennett, the Israeli Nationalist hardliner has said that he is going to join a potential coalition government that could very well end the rule of the longest-serving leader of the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
One can have a look back at the great career of the survivor since he had returned to power in 2009.
The right-wing Likud party chief has become the prime minister for a second time in March 2009 after he had his first stint between the period of 1996 and 1999.
He has formed a coalition that is firmly anchored in the right with the ultra-nationalist Avigdor Lieberman as the foreign minister.
After the snap polls in January 2013, Netanyahu has formed a new coalition with hardliners who are keen to build settlements on Palestinian lands that have been seized during the six-day war in 1967.
In July 2014, Israel has launched a military operation against the Hams-run Gaza strip that has got the stated aim of destroying tunnels used for smuggling and ending rocket fire.
The war had left 2251 dead on the Palestinian side who are mostly civilians and also 74 on the Israeli side who were mostly soldiers.
In May 2015, Netanyahu has won the confidence vote in Parliament to form his fourth government.
Just a year later, he has signed a coalition agreement with the Israeli Beitenu Party and named it’s chief Lieberman the defense minister.
This government is the most right-wing in Israeli history.
In June 2017, Israel has started building its first new government-sanctioned settlement in the occupied territories of Palestine since 1991 in defiance of international opinion.
A mass protest has erupted in Gaza in March 2018 that has demanded the right to return to homes in Israel that Palestinians fled or have been expelled from after the Jewish state have been created in 1948.
The protests have sparked a surge in violence on the border where Palestinians gather every Friday.
From March 2018 to December 2019, at least 352 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire. Eight Israelis have also died in related incidents.
In April 2019, Likud has won 35 of the 120 parliamentary seats in the general election which is the same number as Netanyahu’s centrist challenger Benny Gantz.
Netanyahu has been tasked with forming a government but he is unable to secure a majority.
Even after the new election on 17th September, Netanyahu’s Likud and Gantz’s Blue and White Alliance are still neck-and-neck.
Neither party has managed to form a coalition; it has propelled the country into a third poll.
In January 2020, US President Donald Trump who is an unfailing backer of Netanyahu has unveiled a middle-east peace plan that is hugely favorable to the Jewish state.
Four Arab countries- Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Sudan have normalized relations with Israel.
Trump has also gifted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
