“Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks discusses the election win of Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing pals and what this means for the rest of the world.
Benjamin Netanyahu beat out rival Isaac Herzog for the position of Prime Minister of Israel in a close race. Netanyahu’s Likud party has also won a large number of seats in the Knesset, defeating the Zionist Union opposition. But what does this election in a little backwater country in the middle east mean for the rest of the planet?
One of the ways that Netanyahu seized the vote was with a number of last minute speeches and promises. His denial of a Palestinian state within Israel, making plans with the far-right Jewish Home party to settle the contested zone of the West Bank before the polls were even closed. This stands to widen already deep rifts in mainland Europe and the United States between Jewish and Arab peoples.”
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