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The generals who challenged Netanyahu ran a campaign largely devoid of substance

  • Written by Guy Ziv, Assistant Professor, American University School of International Service

The close results of the April 9 Israeli elections, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the apparent winner, represent a missed opportunity for his centrist rivals.

As a foreign policy scholar who researches Israeli politics, I believe that perhaps the greatest irony of the election was the failure of Netanyahu’s challengers, the newly...

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