Maybe Netanyahu will have to form a Unity Government with the Zionist Union (whom he beat in the elections) because many of those on the right may simply be looking out for their own interests in the party, instead of for Israel!
But maybe Netanyahu can "whip then into line" after some more negotiations!
Yinon Magal: Likud Purposely Stalling Coalition Talks [Netanyahu & Israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3272877/posts
Incoming Jewish Home MK says that Netanyahu keeps raising the bar for the coalition - in hopes of forming a unity government instead.
Incoming MK Yinon Magal (Jewish Home) heavily criticized the Likud on Friday, saying that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu prefers to form a government with Labor-Hatnua, despite multiple promises both before and after elections.
“I think that there has been a spin here from the first day of [coalition] negotiations,” Magal stated in an interview Friday morning to Army Radio. ‘’The Prime Minister did call [Jewish Home chairman] Naftali Bennett first [after the elections - ed.], but since negotiations have begun, [progress] has been slow. The Prime Minister met with Bennett twice and didn’t offer him anything.”
“[Netanyahu] didn’t offer anything,” he said. “There is a spin Israel Hayom is putting out that we were apparently offered the Education portfolio, and that there is internal competition over it. This is nonsense; there was nothing, they didn’t offer us anything.”
Magal accused Netanyahu of making the coalition demands so high that Jewish Home will be forced to back down - paving the way for a unity government.
I wonder if outside influence ... say from Washington are exerting pressures and promises on the splinter groups to impede Netanyahu.
He can bring in John Kerry. He’s a whiz at negotiating surrenders and besides he served in Viet Nam.
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