Netanyahu seeks broad coalition to push forward Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

A coalition of Likud with just Bibi with Bennet and Lapid is going to be full of friction with Lapid and his anti religion attitudes and trying to lay the foundations to help him win the next election and he will then pull out the coalition force a new election when he thinks the time is right. Bennet will also be pulling at Bibi from the other side demanding he builds more settlements and Livni who has suddenly become the queen of the peace process is against it. One year tops before we have another expensive election. A coalition with Bibi, the religious, Bennet and Livni again there will be alot of friction with opposite sides all demanding things and Bibi can't please them all so eventually somebody will leave and bring down the government and we will have an expensive election. If we have a broad coalition that included the religious, Lapid, Bennet and Livni then although there would still be all this friction no one party could bring down the government even Lapid alone couldn't do it so we would have stability and we may even pass some legislation because has potential to last 3 maybe even 4 years but anything else gets a year at maximum and the only thing thats really making this ideal coalition impossible is the likes of Lapid who doesn't want to be seen sitting in a coalition with religious because he thinks it will be bad for his image. If its peace talks your concerned about then there won't be a chance in hell of doing anything on that front and the coalition will probably collapse before we even have any serious talks. The best chance for talks was actually under the last government when Bibi had a stable coalition, Obama was putting pressure on him to talk which he offered to do but Abbas refused setting all kinds of preconditions to avoid talks. This time round unless its broad Bibi will have a very unstable coalition which won't get anything done and Abbas is still talking about preconditions just to come and talk ( not do deals ) but if he places conditions on talks even taking place then not even the most pro peace process government can get anything done.

The American people are feeling seriously betrayed by President Obama(The better half of Americans who believe in justice). Hashem, I know the only one I trust in this matter is God. I'm putting this back into Gods hands to deliver peace and justice! I want with all my heart and soul, justice and peace for Israel and the true Americans who protect our freedom! The true souls who know what freedom means, and what it takes to achieve a lasting peace. I only have my prayers to offer here. So I pray for the solidarity of Israel and the American people. Amen.

Now just WHERE have we heard this before?????

If you make a coalition broad enough, there is no chance in hell that you will reach an agreement. And that fits neatly into Bibi's plan.

Really? Push forward peace talks with pre-conditions and demands that the Palestinians should not be subjected to and will should refuse and that will make him look like the good guy. Netanyahu, you are the world's biggest liar and criminal and no one should believe anything you say and no one should agree to deal with at all. Netanyahu, if you really want peace and want to push forward Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, what you need to do, if you are serious about and believe in peace, is resign your government and leave politics for ever.

Since when is israel's right wing Zionist government interested in pushing forward peace talks??? Just more 'hot air' to keep the world fooled.

Since 1948 Israel has been given 60 years starting from 1948 to solve ME CONFLICT: if not than Israel is sinc 2008 on its own as Israel has NOT FIND any peace and thus I told you you are on your own by that BO: NOW you and they know you nor they should've asked4anything: us 4 Jews

I think we all know that Bibi is a great proponent of peace talks. He's not so keen on actual peace, mind you. For Bibi the peace talks is a charade in which one has to partake every once in a while, in order to keep other countries' attention away from the ultimate goal of annexation of the occupied territories. The idea that he wants to promote peace is just naive. The same lure of peace talks was used the last time Bibi wanted a "broad coalition", ie when he wanted to attract one of the leftist parties to shore up his coalition. Just look back on some articles from the previous election, you'd think many of those quotes were given yesterday. The great statesman Netanyahu is calling for peace and national unity. And then, if you consider how little regard Bibi showed for peace in the last 4 years I think you will not be impressed by this "new" push for peace talks.

Yesh Atid and Labor are not center-left parties. This article is misleading

These guys have been fooling the world for years and a crafty move to ensure that they can also blame the center left parties. He will ensure that overall his right wing parties have an overall majority in the coalition govt.

The only reason Netanyahu supposedly wants a broad coalition is to create a deadlock in the government that would allow him another term of doing nothing. Who does he think he is fooling with these announcements of his commitment to peace negotiations?

they are not worthy of being in the government of israel They are scoffers and driven by personal agendas and are a chillul Hashem Go with strenght take the haredim,Shelly Tzipi,shaul and if need be take without fear 1 arab party They are much better of the 2 thugs who are making life a living hell in israel

Israel settlements along palestinian boarder is now sucessful, they are building colonies and hamas is still quiet.

nothing less, nothing more.

There were many who stated after the 2013 election results that nothing will change and they remained pessimistic, and I think the Israeli Government has reached a point where they see it's necessary to move forward as representatives of all Israelis, whomever they are, on peace negotiations with the Palestinians. And it's also helpful if the Palestinians understand that element too as it has as much to do with them receiving a broadly supported Israeli peace proposal as well. The Palestinians who support President Abbas are not necessarily going to have a fully supportive public either.