• Historical pact Lebanon and Israel reach a strategic agreement on the maritime border and gas fields

  • Elections The agreement with Lebanon shakes the electoral campaign in Israel

Although with less intensity than when it was announced two weeks ago, the signing of the maritime agreement with Lebanon arouses controversy in the final stretch of the Israeli electoral campaign.

If the pact with a country technically at war and under the influence of the great Iranian enemy is an unprecedented event in Israel,

it drifts to the political shore

if it is signed six days before the elections.

Whoever Israel's future prime minister is - the current Yair Lapid, the former Benjamin Netanyahu, or Defense Minister Benny Gantz -

the deal is not in jeopardy

.

This is because he has the umbrella of the United States and because the Likud leader no longer threatens, as he did initially, to annul it if he returns to power.

Of course, he continues to denounce it

: "It is a surrender to Hezbollah's blackmail that threatened to attack our deposit without a prior agreement."



After seeing in the polls that

the agreement has more supporters than detractors

Netanyahu has reduced the volume of criticism.

However, his party attacks it either because of the content or because it was not approved in the Knesset.

"It is a negotiating failure for Lapid who capitulated by giving Lebanon all the 860 km in dispute," denounces Likud deputy Eli Cohen.



The Government replies that Netanyahu had signed the same agreement and accuses him of "irresponsibility" and

of "playing the lies of the terrorist group Hezbollah"

.

After influencing the resounding support of the Mossad, the Army and Shabak (internal security service) for the agreement, Lapid recalled that he put it for 14 days "under strict control and supervision in Parliament."

"The Supreme Court ruled unanimously (before the appeals presented) that the Government carried out an adequate and legal procedure, the responsibility is ours, and therefore the authority is in our hands," said the centrist leader, who took office in July

after the fall of the heterogeneous coalition

that he formed with Naftali Bennett.

According to the latest polls,

neither of the two blocs has a majority to form a government

but, as happened in the negotiations with Lebanon, anything is possible.

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