Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rivals on Monday sought to finalize a unity coalition that would unseat the veteran leader, as political commentators predicted a bitter fight ahead.
Centrist opposition chief Yair Lapid won support on Sunday from ultranationalist Naftali Bennett for a "change" government of ideologically disparate rivals.
The morning after Bennett moved against his right-wing rival, political commentary in Israel was divided about everything except the folly of writing Netanyahu off. Hoping to discredit Bennett and other right-wingers who refused to back him, Netanyahu, cast them as committing "the fraud of the century" which would, he said, imperil Israel.
But the veteran Likud Party leader is a survivor: he was first elected prime minister in 1996 and he returned to power in 2009, holding the top office for more than a decade. However the new coalition will likely mean a stalemate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with marked policy differences between the coalition partners.
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