While legislative elections are held in Israel, Vincent Hervouet takes stock of the stakes of this election.
There was a time when, at each election in Israel, was fate of the Middle East, war or peace? Today is the fate of Benyamin Netanyahu, stop or?
Will the Attorney General of State get his hands on him, after having charged him in three separate cases six months ago? These are financial affairs, not state affairs.
But Israeli justice does not joke with corruption. Ehud Olmert (the former head of government) has just spent a year and a half behind bars for accepting a € 15,000 bribe.
Benyamin Netanyahu wants a law that gives him immunity. To get it, he dissolved the Knesset. Bad calculation, he made a party emerge pick up everything, anti bibi. He has no more majority to govern, than allies who make him sing. So, new dissolution and new referendum, "for or against Netanyahu".
If he falls, it will be high: he has never been so influential. He is received at the Kremlin as well as at the White House and at night he discusses with the Gulf countries.
If it survives, it will annex part of the Jordan Valley or even Hebron, liquidating the peace of Oslo to which he never believed.
The excuse is to be back to the wall while the Americans hold Iran in play and the world holds its breath.