Channel 12 reports that Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman is planning on recommending Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz be tasked with forming the next government.
Earlier today, Liberman expressed disgust over the agreement signed by the leaders of Shas, UTJ and Yamina, in which they agreed to enter coalition negotiations as one bloc with Likud led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Jordan’s King Abdullah II said on Tuesday that Israel continuing with its plans to extend its sovereignty to all settlements in Judea and Samaria would be a “disaster” for the two-state solution, the AP reported.
Speaking after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Abdullah said that he was “extremely concerned” about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex the area of the West Bank replete with Jewish settlements.
He also warned the relationship between Jordan and Israel would be affected by such a move, and that “these types of statements are … a disaster to any attempt to move forward to the two-state solution.”
Merkel apparently agreed, saying Netanyahu’s vow was “unhelpful,” according to the report.
(JNS)

Israel’s second election of 2019 ended, like it did back in April, with no clear winner. As polls indicated leading up to the Sept. 17 election, no Knesset member has a clear path to form a 61-mandate coalition and be crowned prime minister.
According to professor Yedidia Stern, vice president of the Israel Democracy Institute and former dean of the law faculty of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, that’s not quite true; the clear winner, he states, is Israel’s democracy.
The electoral process will now shift to Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, who after consulting with each party, will likely ask either Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu or Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz to try to form a government. The process will take more than a month.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on rival Benny Gantz to help form a unity government in Israel after neither gained enough seats to make a ruling coalition on their own.
Netanyahu told Gantz to meet him “at any hour today” in order to hold discussions, saying, “We must form a broad unity government,” according to Haaretz.
The comments mark a reversal for Netanyahu, who had previously hoped to win enough seats in Tuesday’s parliamentary elections to form a ruling coalition with other right-wing parties and had at first ruled out working with centrists.

While the Trump administration hopes that it will be able to entice the Palestinian Authority into accepting its Middle East peace plan, dubbed the ‘Deal of the Century’, set to be released later this year, a new poll shows support for peace talks down in the Palestinian Authority – and support for terrorism up.
A whopping 61% of Palestinian Arabs, including 49% of those in Judea and Samaria and 80% of Gazans, approved of the terrorist bombing attack on an Israeli family last month which left 17-year-old Rina Shnerb dead and her father and brother seriously injured.
The three had been hiking near a spring outside of the Israeli town of Dolev in Samaria when terrorists remotely detonated a three-kilogram bomb, killing Rina.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged House Judiciary Committee Democrats and chair Jerry Nadler to abandon ship on their “Moby Dick”-like obsession with impeaching President Trump, it emerged Wednesday.
The veteran California congresswoman launched the friendly fire broadside in a closed-doors Capitol Hill meeting last week, warning Democratic members and aides of Nadler’s crew that their thirst for impeachment would never survive a floor vote, according to Politico.
“And you can feel free to leak this,” Pelosi told those on hand for the verbal keelhauling, who did just that to the Beltway outlet.
Nadler’s camp did not respond to requests for comment.

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Avigdor Liberman vows that he won’t sit with the Joint List party, “even in a parallel universe.”
He insists that he will not sit in any government besides one with just Likud and Blue and White and urges the relevant players to quit “wasting time” thinking of other options.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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New Jersey’s entire delegation in the U.S. House called for public apologies or resignations from two council members for Trenton, the state’s capital, after they made light of their leader’s anti-Semitic remark during an official meeting.
“I said, ‘Mr. Developer, I respect you, I appreciate you for valuing our city, for offering the best price possible and not trying to go backwards to Jew us down,’” said Jackson.

Kamala Harris’ popularity after attack on Biden was brief, struggles to keep campaign alive.
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