Israeli Politics, Still Without A Government

The Israeli elections have long since come and gone, but a government has yet to be formed. Papers and blogs around the world are speaking of a right-wing extremist government, but what is really happening?

My Filtrbox updates have been scaring me since the Gaza Operation. Its turned into a daily parade of war-crimes accusations, conspiracy theories, and characterizations of the new Israeli government as radical, right-wing extremists.

Far from a dramatic move towards the right-wing, Israeli politics has decided shifted towards the center, or so says Donniel Hartman of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

Hartman argues that the right-wing's inability to form a government is a clear sign that there is no consensus on that side of the spectrum. Further, he notes that the more extreme right parties have not been asked to join the government.

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