After signing Tzipi Livni onto his coalition, Netanyahu doesn’t need Yair Lapid anymore – he can have the haredim and Naftali Bennett while pacifying Obama.
Larry Derfner (972 magazine)
Give the devil his due: Bibi pulled off a masterstroke yesterday by
signing Tzipi Livni’s Hatnuah party to his coalition. Now he’s got clear
sailing to his ideal government – one made up of the right wing and
ultra-Orthodox, his base, but one that also keeps Obama and the
Europeans off his back by giving the appearance – completely hollow –
that he intends to try to move toward peace with the Palestinians.
That’s Livni’s role, and she’ll be happy to play it; she’s been given
the job of heading up negotiations with the Palestinians, which is what
she always wanted, and it saves her from dying politically in the
opposition with her six measly Knesset seats.
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