What Netanyahu’s ‘spectacular’ return means for Israel

Alliance with the far-right risks doing serious harm to Israel’s standing in America

Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara
Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, greet supporters at an election-night event on 1 November
(Image credit: Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Benjamin Netanyahu has sealed a “spectacular comeback”, said Sheldon Kirshner in The Times of Israel (Jerusalem). Israel’s fifth election in just over three years was widely viewed as a referendum on the “fitness to govern” of the country’s longest-serving PM; and the answer was clear.

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