Al-Aawar added in his speech to an episode of “Beyond the News” program, that Bennett’s goal in dissolving the Knesset was to block the path for Benjamin Netanyahu, the opposition leader and former prime minister, who began the move to form a new government within the Knesset after the collapse of the government coalition. And that this election will be the fifth in two and a half years.
He added that the government's failure to extend a law known as emergency regulations in Israel led to the decision to dissolve and reinforced the political division in Israeli society, which Netanyahu exploited in order to return to the prime ministership.
The Israeli Emergency Regulations Law - which was enacted in the West Bank in 1967 - requires that about half a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank be treated as citizens in Israel, and the Knesset works to extend the law every 5 years, but the Bennett government failed on June 7 to mobilize Votes required to extend its work.
In turn, James Jeffrey, head of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center, supported the previous guest's talk that the political division in Israeli society was behind the dissolution of the government and the call for early elections, praising the government coalition's dealings in Israel with the Palestinian issue in Gaza and the West Bank and its dealings with allies, led by the states United States of America.
He added that Netanyahu's return to power will worsen Tel Aviv's relationship with Washington, as the Democratic Party and US President Joe Biden do not see him as the right ally for them.
The fate of the elections
For his part, Al-Awar affirmed that going to the elections will not solve the problem that Israel suffers from, because it is difficult for any party to obtain the number of seats required to form a government, as happened last year, noting that Naftali Bennett may retire from political life after the resignation of some members of his Yamina party. This means that he will not have any role in the new Knesset.
On the other hand, Jeffrey made it clear that Washington is working to support the person it wants to reach the government in Israel without interfering in the elections, but the current situation depends on the personal friendships between President Biden and the prime minister candidate, and his view of the relationship with Iran, and the Arab countries that maintain relations with Tel Aviv. .
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett described the decision to dissolve the Knesset and head for early elections as the right decision dictated by Israel's supreme security interest.
In turn, Yair Lapid welcomed the decision. On the other hand, Benjamin Netanyahu described the Bennett government as the failure in Israel's history, vowing to form a national unity government that he said would respond to the Israelis' demands without discrimination.