Is It Hard for Someone to Get to Power?

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Jason ors: Israeli politics is a very long period of dis function, anirty and that's partly to do with minimint an the anl himself. Despite facing multiple corruption charges, despite having failed to win four elections consecutively, he still has the support of a large part of the disraeli public. That in itself is polarizing the israli public and making it very difficult to build any kind of coherent coalition. There are people who would be sitting together with liquod, with natanal's party, if it wasn't for his leadership. The other reason israeli public really is spit, not just over an antena, but over corissues

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