Daniel Levy Former Israeli peace negotiator The "USA/Middle East" project: The Likud party may join the Izenkot government. And Likud is a very extreme party. Lieberman and Bennett are expected to be included in the government. In order to conduct a tough and uncompromising policy towards the Palestinians, there is no need to have politicians like Ben-Gvir, Montrich or Netanyahu. The hope - from the Israeli point of view - is that they will tone down the rhetoric, change some aspects of their policy and allow the international community to back off.

Daniel Levy Former Israeli peace negotiator The "USA/Middle East" project: The Likud party may join the Izenkot government. And Likud is a very extreme party. Lieberman and Bennett are expected to be included in the government. In order to conduct a tough and uncompromising policy towards the Palestinians, there is no need to have politicians like Ben-Gvir, Montrich or Netanyahu. The hope - from the Israeli point of view - is that they will tone down the rhetoric, change some aspects of their policy and allow the international community to back off.