Indeed - Bennett is more of a hardliner than Bibi. But he is in a coalition government, including left wing parties and the United Arab List for this first time in Israeli history. We can hope that this will moderate the right wing parties on the critical issue of the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians. Any break in the coalition could bring Likud and Netanyahu back into power, which none of them want.
We’ll have to see how this coalition actually governs, of course. But Bennett only has 2 years before Lapid gets a shot at being PM.
Strange days.
[ETA] And here is the Guardian, reiterating what the Al-Jazeera article was saying…
