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Netanyahu, despite his second-place in the head-to-head will nonetheless be able to command a Knesset-majority coalition if Livni fails to tempt some of his allies to back her. (And, of course, the price for Livni winning backing from parties of the right will necessarily restrain her...
Finally in 1987, the organization solidified its new international status by re-branding itself as the World Economic Forum. The new WEF broadened its scope of influence by tackling the resolution of international conflicts, forestalling war between Turkey and Greece in 1988 by convincing them to sign the "Davos Declaration...
Still, the rival candidates would do well to recall the outcome of an earlier military offensive waged during an Israeli election campaign. In April 1996, then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres was floundering in a stiff electoral battle with the very same Netanyahu. Peres, who initially was considered a certainty...
Another important lesson on the dangers of polling came in Israel in 1996. Despite initial exit polling suggesting Shimon Peres had been elected Prime Minister, when the actual votes were tallied it was Binyamin Netanyahu who emerged victorious. I spent six tough but fascinating years based in Jerusalem. Reminders of...
But on Sunday Livni, a onetime Mossad agent, conceded defeat, claiming she refused to be "blackmailed" by the demands of the fringe religious parties she was trying to woo. The religious parties, she said, were making "economically and diplomatically illegitimate demands." The ultra-orthodox Shas party was charging a high...