The post-election dynamics

Shmuel Rosner has an interesting post up at Commentary about the coalition negotiations in Israel following the elections. Rosner argues that there’s no point following then hour by hour developments during the next few days as all that is going to come out is spin and bluff and counter-bluff.  The key dynamics to watch, he says, are that Israeli voters want a unity government and that Netanyahu does not want to be on the left of his own coalition. As Rosner writes:

“Don’t buy the smiling faces of Netanyahu and the leaders of right wing parties that he is now courting. Sitting with them in a coalition — in which they will have the final say — is Netanyahu’s worst nightmare. He thinks some of them are real nut cases, and knows that they will surely bring about his demise. And by the way, it’s not Lieberman who worries him the most — it’s the National Union, a party so far to the right that serious people, even within Likud, think it would be much better for the new coalition to find a way to avoid their partnership.