Israel Coalition Leaders Agree on Early Elections in April
Israeli coalition leaders agreed Monday to hold early elections in April, seven months before they are due, a statement issued on their behalf said.
Coalition party heads in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government have decided to dissolve parliament and hold elections in early April "in the name of budgetary and national responsibility," the statement distributed by a spokesman for Netanyahu's Likud party said.
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Leaders of all the political parties in Israel, including the non-Jewish ("Arab", but an Arab can be Jewish) ones, have agreed a "grand coalition" strategy for contesting the election, based on one-person, one-vote. The parties have already decided to send the Jewish-state form of governance to the trash heap of history. The voters can nullify this decision by refusing to vote. Then Israel will have a constitutional crisis, the one it's always dreamt of. What if the result, given a list of eligible voters of some few millions, including one million of so offically-non-Jewish ones, is the last-named bloc all vote and none of the rest vote? Will that civil rights state be legitimate? How will it act, is the test there.
