Israel Elections

Benjamin Netanyahu will likely be sworn in as the Prime Minister of Israel within weeks.  On the most important issue facing Israel, Netanyahu is extremely problematic:  he opposes a fully sovereign Palestinian state, known as the 'two-state' solution. 

What does Bibi support?  He supports Palestinian autonomy with 4 crucial 'caveats:'  No Palestinian control of airspace; no Palestinian control of borders and crossings; no Palestinian control of their own electromagnetic spectrum and no Palestinian military.  He is in favor of Palestinians being able to sell dates and figs.  For more on Bibi, see this editorial in the March 3 edition of Ha'aretz.

Thus far Tzipi Livni has refused to join Bibi's coalition, leaving him to form a coalition with other parties that are further right than he is (Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu wants to expel the Palestinians completely).  One distant possibility is a 'sharing' of government in which Netanyahu would be PM for 2 years and Livni for the other two.