The recipe is known: before an insufficient majority, dedicate all efforts to avoid the union of the opposition. The Israeli right has a strong argument, also well-known in other countries: the left can only govern if it has the votes of the Arab Joint List stigmatized as an enemy of Israel. The alliance that must be woven to end Netanyahu's long and already excessive leadership - 18 years in two periods - must mix water and oil, the deputies of the Arab parties and the followers of Avigdor Lieberman, the ultra but secular right-wing that he has come to defend the deportation of the Arab population from Israeli territory to the future Palestinian State.
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The stimuli for this difficult coalition are abundant. The first and most prominent is to kick Netanyahu out to allow him to answer to justice for the corruption charges. If there is no government, there will be a new electoral call, the fourth since the anticipated elections held in April 2019. The final argument is the quality of Israeli democracy: you cannot govern a democratic country as if the 15 deputies of the Arab minority, representing one fifth of the Israeli population, as Netanyahu claims. His idea of democracy is openly illiberal and hostile to the rule of law, as evidenced by his attempts to evade the action of justice by exoneration through the ballot box. In the hands of ex-general Benny Gantz, the leader of Azul y Blanco, there is the possibility of replacing him if he achieves both the votes of the Arab Joint List and those of Israel Our House. These, those of Lieberman, want to deprive of privilege the religious parties that have been supporting Netanyahu; the List, defending the civil rights of Israeli Arabs.
Although apparently incompatible, both agree on equal rights, without distinction of creed or religion. Benny Gantz's narrow path could be the prelude to a new fight for civil rights, a logical exit from the Palestinian conflict once Trump and Netanyahu have destroyed the peace process.
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