May 07, 2015
Netanyahu's Problems With Obama, Iran and Palestinians Will Continue
Source: U.S. News and World Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fragile new government is the most right-leaning in Israeli history, giving the fringe parties outsize power and offering little hope of advancing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process or an improved relationship with the U.S.
The new government formed just under the deadline Wednesday after Netanyahu cobbled together a coalition of smaller and more-extreme political groups in order to gain a 61-seat majority in parliament. Thanks to the way Israel's parliamentary system works, the set up gives extremist parties outsize power.
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