That it would be for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not an easy election campaign, already, as of the end of December, the former army chief Benny Gantz and his party of “resistance to Israel” went into the race. Now could it be for the Premier for the first Time since taking office ten years ago, even really tight: Benny Gantz, and Yair Lapid, Netanyahu’s strongest competitors, in the night of Thursday to an Alliance together, which according to recent surveys, with a seat projection, even as the strongest force in the elections on 9. April.

a Few hours before the parties were required to submit, on the morning of their final lists, said Gantz and Lapid, was to be powered by the “national responsibility” and their list of “Blue and white” will form the new ruling party in Israel. In the case of an electoral victory, you want to alternate as heads of government, the first two and a half years, Gantz would take over the office.

Yair Lapids party “There is a future”, which is assigned to the political center, was previously represented with eleven of the 120 Seats in the Opposition in the Knesset. Gantz is a newly-founded party is the right of the middle: While the party leader spoke in the previous election campaign, the high cost of living, rising Rents and the housing shortage and took even the former head of the trade Union “Histadrut”, in Avi containers grain, into the boat.

As a General on duty he scores but especially when it comes to safety – and as he shows himself hard: He campaigned with military Successes in Gaza and announced at the Munich security conference that he had with Netanyahu when it comes to safety, especially in regard to Iran, agreed. Because it fits quite well in the new list the names of other Ex-generals: Moshe Yaalon, a former defence Minister, and Gabi Ashkenazi, who also served once as chief of the army.

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Netanyahu knows very well how dangerous the current situation is for him. In the attempt to strengthen the rights of bearings, announced Netanyahu already, in the case of an electoral victory, is also questionable, to get radical forces in the government. Netanyahu of the right national party promised a “Jewish home” two Ministerial posts, you should close with the even more radical prevailing party “Jewish strength”. It is Netanyahu’s was trying to not give away votes on the right of the spectrum – after all, it was uncertain whether it would create the two micro-parties, each alone on a 3.25-percent-hurdle.

Netanyahu’s offer has proved a success: Since Wednesday, this is one Alliance that would get in the event of an electoral victory, the ministries of construction and education.

It is a dangerous political game that Netanyahu is playing because: Because the members of the “Jewish strength” are followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was notorious for his racist policies, and had planned to banish the Arab population in the neighbouring countries. His party “Kach” was excluded in the 80s, even from the Knesset because it was too radical.

Controversial merger

Controversial to the present merger was therefore even within the party of “Jewish home”, once headed by Ajelet Schaked and Naftali Bennett, before the established their own party “The new rights”. To the outside, but it shows Unity: With the merger, you have demonstrated responsibility in order to safeguard the religious Zionism and the right of the Block, it said in a statement the two parties. They warned of a “serious left danger”, the out of Gantz.

Netanyahu sees the similar – he does everything to lead to a grave battle and defamed Gantz and Lapid as a “Left” which has for many Israelis, already have a negative meaning. To his left is as weak and unpatriotic. On Twitter, the government wrote to the chief, it is about whether there will be a left-wing government headed by Lapid and Gantz, which is a threat to the country, or rights – with him at the top.

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his party, Likud, heating up the bearing sentiment and tweeted, the left-wing government of Gantz and Lapid would be supported by the Arab Block. It is a sharp and probably dirty election campaign in the coming weeks. Maybe the last for Netanyahu, the upcoming charges in several corruption cases threatens.