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[–] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

So he's not too busy to go to jail now?

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    man wouldn't it be great if putin, trump and bibi ended up on the same cell block?

    I'd fucking pay to watch that show. I'd pay for trump to have radical life extension medical treatments just for it to go on.

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    [–] 15 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

    With who? They've sworn not to work with the Arab parties, and they're in opposition to Netanyahu's coalition. Which parties could actually join them to form a government?

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Pure guessing here - but I think it takes a majority of the parliament to decide to dissolve?

    So even if Eisenkot doesn't create a coalition with the Palestinian parties (using "Arab" is Israel's way of denying Palestinian identity), my guess is that the Palestinian parties would still vote against dissolving parliament, and Eisenkot can carry on.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    You need to have a government to dissolve it. Usually in a parliamentary system, if there is a failure to form a government, there's another election (and part of the existing government continues as a caretaker government to perform essential duties).

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  • [–] -5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    "try to form government" is like euphemism for coup d'état.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    What do you mean by that? This sounds like a by-the-books procedural step

    "President Herzog has invited Gadi Eisenkot to the President’s Residence, where he will ⁠be tasked with forming the government tomorrow," said the spokesperson of President Isaac Herzog, whose largely ceremonial role involves nominating a candidate to form a coalition after elections.

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    [–] 2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    How exactly does Israel's govt work? I though Net&Yahoo was in charge 🤔

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago (2 children)

    They just had an election and his party failed to make a majority. He lost

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    I gathered that. But what's the difference between the president and prime minister?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago

    The President is an apolitical ceremonial role whose entire Job is to oversee the government processes and facilitate elections and such. The prime minister is the actual head of state. After an election when a new parliament forms the president selects the legislator they think has the highest chance of forming a majority coalition to back them. This is the “forming a government phase”. Since Isreal is a multiparty system nonparty will have majority power so the legislator trying to form a government will have to make concessions on various agenda items to get enough other parties to back them to form a majority coalition. If they fail to do so within the time limit the president will pick someone else.

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