Israeli voters are voting in national elections for the fifth time in three and a half years. Voting started on Tuesday (November 1) morning. It will continue till 10 pm. The goal of this election is to break the stalemate of political instability that has been going on for several years and establish a stable government.
However, the most significant issue of this election is the possibility of returning to power Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister known as hard-right, who is on trial for corruption.
Netanyahu was forced to resign last year amid corruption allegations. At that time, many may have thought that they were finally freed from the hands of this corrupt person.
But many may not have guessed that this is only a temporary release. Now it is believed that Netanyahu can come back to power.
Netanyahu can form the government
According to public opinion polls, there is a glimpse of the hard-right alliance led by Netanyahu getting the majority of seats. Analysts say that this incredible incident is going to happen because of the failure of the rival parties to form a stable government without him.
While Netanyahu is ahead in opinion polls, his right-wing Likud party, radical Jewish and other hard-right parties are still far from securing the 61 seats needed to form a government.
However, if Netanyahu's coalition manages to secure 61 seats in the end, Netanyahu will become prime minister. In that case, his cabinet will have a hard-right look. Netanyahu has already promised that if he becomes prime minister, he will form a government with hardliners like Itamar Ben Giv, the most influential politician of the right.
There is already a public concern about Netanyahu's possible cabinet. That's because hard-right Itamar Ben Giv'er emerged from an extremist group banned in Israel.
In the past, he was accused of direct support to terrorism and even accused of it. He still holds that view today. He called the local Arabs 'anti-Israeli' and advocated their displacement.
In this case, the American pro-Israeli group AIPAC or AIPAC has been strongly criticizing Itamar Ben Giv and the radical Zionist party led by him, the Jewish Power Party. According to IPAC, the Jewish Power Party is a racist party. However, Netanyahu says that Ben GV has changed from his previous position to a 'moderate' and a 'moderate'.
The fear that Netanyahu will trim the wings of the judiciary if he becomes the prime minister
is getting stronger. By forming a government, Netanyahu and his allies want to trim the wings of the judiciary. Bezalel Storich, another close associate of Netanyahu, has already revealed the matter.
He has already proposed several laws to take away some of the powers of the judiciary. Netanyahu can also change some sections of the criminal law. In order to exonerate Netanyahu from charges of fraud and breach of trust in the corruption case.
There is no immediate release for the Palestinians.
For several years, opposition politicians have taken various initiatives to oust Netanyahu. They have made many allegations against him, including corruption, nepotism, arbitrariness. Yet none of them were interested in challenging his policy on the conflict with the Palestinians.
Netanyahu's political rivals appear to be carbon copies of him on Palestinian human rights issues. They were united against Netanyahu because of their ambitions for power.
