The logic of this thing leads straight to ethic cleansing

Maybe not soon. Maybe it's not even really in his head, yet. But it's coming.

Final Israeli Election Results Bolster Netanyahu’s Lead

A final count of ballots on Thursday gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party an additional seat in Parliament, making it the largest faction and punctuating the Israeli leader’s victory.

The results released by Israel’s central election commission showed Likud capturing a total of 36 seats in the 120-seat Parliament, compared to 35 seats for its main rival, the centrist Blue and White party. 

An earlier count had the two parties deadlocked.

Altogether, Likud and its traditional Jewish ultra-Orthodox and nationalist allies command a 65-55 majority, putting Mr. Netanyahu in position to head the next coalition government. 

On Wednesday, Blue and White’s leaders conceded defeat.

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Israeli Law Declares the Country the ‘Nation-State of the Jewish People’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has long demanded that the Palestinians acknowledge his country’s existence as the “nation-state of the Jewish people.” 

On Thursday, his governing coalition stopped waiting around and pushed through a law that made it a fact.

In an incendiary move hailed as historic by Mr. Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition but denounced by centrists and leftists as racist and anti-democratic, Israel’s Parliament enacted a law that enshrines the right of national self-determination as “unique to the Jewish people” — not all citizens.

The legislation, a “basic law” — giving it the weight of a constitutional amendment — omits any mention of democracy or the principle of equality, in what critics called a betrayal of Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence, which ensured “complete equality of social and political rights” for “all its inhabitants” no matter their religion, race or sex.

The new law promotes the development of Jewish communities, possibly aiding those who would seek to advance discriminatory land-allocation policies. 

And it downgrades Arabic from an official language to one with a “special status.”