Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz announced Wednesday his centrist National Unity party has introduced a bill to dissolve the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, which would trigger an early election.
It is unclear when lawmakers might vote on the bill, which requires a majority vote to pass. Israeli law stipulates there cannot be another vote for six months if the motion fails.
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It’s not the ruling coalition that’s proposing this, and it’s not dissolution towards fascist rule. Gantz’s party isn’t exactly opposition, but it’s not Likud’s coalition either. And the dissolution is to call for new elections, hopefully to replace Netanyahu and Likud with a slightly less right-wing party like Gantz’s.
Gantz doesn’t look to be willing to build the coalition to replace Bibi, this is rhetoric and politics, nothing more.
This’ll be interesting, because staying in power is the only way Netanyahu stays out of court, if not out of prison.
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In parliamentry systems you can dissolve parliament, requiring an election. It’s usually a way to bypass deadlock. Imagine if, when republicans are fucking around with the debt ceiling and pissing off the country, you could threaten to call a snap election and let them answer to voters then and there.
So if this passes it would basically force a national referendum on netanyahu’s leadership.
If gantz is pushing this, probably he thinks he can win. That could mean netanyahu’s many financial and political crimes being looked into again. Maybe.
It could mean more of a focus on getting hostages back, but it might not lead to much change in gaza:
Gantz’ centrism is not equivalent to Western centrism: Natenyahu’s Likud party and other Israeli nationalists have “gone so right-wing that the center in Israel has changed,” a Middle East Institute think tank fellow told Al Jazeera. Previously serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Israeli Defense Forces, Gantz has overseen two military offensives in Gaza and labeled several Palestinian NGOs terrorist organizations, indicating it is “unlikely” he would improve the conditions for Palestinians living in Gaza
And that’s before we factor in the Western (think US) center is also not in the center…
That’s called “shifting the Overton window” in case anyone wants to look up other examples
That could mean netanyahu’s many financial and political crimes being looked into again.
Netanyahu’s trial is still ongoing … just at a snail’s pace due to its complexity.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-corruption-trial-courts-4e18ed8f34e65707bd47e37696da4705
I don’t know how to interpret this information. Is this people trying to change the leadership or cement it in?
Edit: The key part was missed by the summary bot.
A long-time rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gantz joined the emergency War Cabinet shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. But he has since become increasingly critical of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, saying that the government has de-prioritized the safe return of the remaining Israeli hostages.
