Ten days after the inconclusive elections, Israel’s President Shimon Peres chose this Friday Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government, giving him six weeks to put together a ruling coalition. The choice was made after Avigdor Lieberman, who heads the hawkish Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel is Our Home) party, endorsed the Likud leader. Now the ball is on Mr Netanyahu’s court who has to decide between forming a coalition government with his hard-lines allies who are opposed to peacemaking with the Palestinians and Israel’s other Arab neighbors, or one with his centrist rival Tzipi Livni, the leader of the Kadima Party, that would provide more stability. Much of the world and the American new administration are waiting and hoping for this latter outcome.
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