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Netanyahu, Gantz Agree to Disagree Another Day Uri Cohen 12/21/2020 Israel’s chaotic political system on Sunday did all it could to preserve its shoddy reputation, as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz reached yet another last-minute agreement to postpone the budget deadline and delay elections. According to the law currently in place, if no budget is passed by December 23, parliament is dissolved and the country will head to the polls for the fourth time in two years. Yet the two frenemies decided to pass a bill extending the deadline by one week,...

  Faced with the threat of a country that has long pledged to wipe Israel off the face of the map  gaining access to the weapon that would enable it to carry out its stated ambition, one might understand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reluctance over the United States’ potential re-entry into the nuclear deal with Iran. But in the eyes of Jackson Diehl, the Washington Post‘s deputy editorial page editor, Netanyahu’s attempts at preventing a devastating war erupting in the Middle East constitute a “militant stand” against one of President-elect Joe Biden’s core po...