Netanyahu gives crash course in Machiavellian politics - analysis
Smotrich is now on the receiving end of what the Center-Left has called the "poison machine" – and, despite his experience, he is still taken aback.
By ELIAV BREUER
Published: NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Sunday will mark the midway point of MK Benjamin Netanyahu's 28-day allotment to form a government, without even one coalition agreement being signed. What the negotiations did supply though was a glimpse of what it means to do business with prime minister-elect MK Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud. Usually identifying as "senior members of the Likud" without specifying who exactly, the party put out countless negative statements and inaccurate information intended to increase public pressure – known in short as "spin" - on its negotiating partners, with most directed at Religious Zionist Party chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich.
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Smotrich is now on the receiving end of what the Center-Left has called the "poison machine" – and, despite his experience, he is still taken aback.
By ELIAV BREUER
Published: NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Sunday will mark the midway point of MK Benjamin Netanyahu's 28-day allotment to form a government, without even one coalition agreement being signed. What the negotiations did supply though was a glimpse of what it means to do business with prime minister-elect MK Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud. Usually identifying as "senior members of the Likud" without specifying who exactly, the party put out countless negative statements and inaccurate information intended to increase public pressure – known in short as "spin" - on its negotiating partners, with most directed at Religious Zionist Party chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich.
more............. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-723298