Israeli Coalition Is About a Fair Draft, Not Iran
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May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Israel’s newly expanded governingcoalition may be more cautious about bombing Iran, and it may bemarginally more open to serious negotiations with thePalestinians. But neither issue was the immediate reason thecentrist Kadima party joined the government of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu on May 8.
The fundamental issue was the relationship between Israel’ssecular and ultra-Orthodox populations.