Analysis: Israel’s Netanyahu may be in his last weeks in power
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The prime minister denies the allegations against him, which have been discussed in the media for quite some time, and will have the opportunity to defend himself before a final decision on an indictment. But the political damage may already be done. Polling suggests that even a marginal shift in support away from right-wing parties to the opposition centrist alliance led by Gantz and Lapid could be fatal to Netanyahu’s reelection chances.
But Netanyahu is in no mood to quit. At a hotel outside Tel Aviv on Monday, he drew the raucous cheers of members of his Likud party, while lambasting media “brainwashing” and the actions of leftist “thuggery.” In Trumpian language, he decried the “witch hunt" against him. Critics, including even a few voices within Likud, have warned that the prime minister is endangering the public’s trust in Israel’s institutions.
For Netanyahu, though, that history matters less than the need to have the right factions in place to secure a sizable enough coalition in the Knesset after the elections. But the move proved beyond the pale even for some of his most committed boosters, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the prominent pro-Israel lobby group in Washington, which tweeted its disapproval of Kahane’s followers.
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