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[00:00:00] Herzog today accepted the confirmed
[00:00:03] results of last week's parliamentary elections in which Benjamin
[00:00:06] Netanyahu and his allies lost the majority in Parliament,
[00:00:09] while Arab parties achieved historic success.
[00:00:13] Herzog began consultations with party representatives on forming
[00:00:16] a new government. And what are the reactions in Israel
[00:00:20] to the elections in America in the new circumstances,
[00:00:23] our Aleksandra Gotfroa knows.
[00:00:25] The American midterm elections were closely followed in Israel, of course, because...
[00:00:30] The United States and Israel have a multi- decade political and
[00:00:33] strategic partnership, but not only because of that, it is about
[00:00:37] the very moment in which these elections are happening for Israel,
[00:00:40] here in Israel there were elections with extremely uncertain results in terms
[00:00:44] of the possibility of forming a government. The American elections,
[00:00:47] on the other hand, were simultaneously viewed as a kind of referendum, at least in one
[00:00:50] part, on the attitude towards Israel, whether the
[00:00:54] policy and the general attitude of the population towards
[00:00:58] Israel would change, especially because of the unpopular war. In Iran, unpopular in
[00:01:01] America, the war in Gaza, that's why they followed
[00:01:05] very carefully, for example, the races in Michigan and the races
[00:01:09] in Texas. So it's no wonder that the first reactions actually
[00:01:12] come from the opposition and that these reactions can be summarized
[00:01:16] as criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu. They say
[00:01:19] Benjamin Netanyahu lost the elections in the United
[00:01:22] States.
[00:01:24] For example, uh, Yair Golan,
[00:01:28] the leader of the Democrats, says that, of course, a coalition
[00:01:32] with Netanyahu is out of the question, that Netanyahu
[00:01:35] uh, if Israel continues to be associated with him, and if he continues to be
[00:01:39] in office, that Israel risks international isolation, international
[00:01:42] sanctions, a breakdown of relations with the United States.
[00:01:46] The leader of the Israeli Labour Party, also an opposition member, says
[00:01:49] that Netanyahu actually managed
[00:01:53] to quarrel Israel with the Democratic Party, with a good part
[00:01:57] of the Republicans, so the opposition party uses this as
[00:02:00] a reason for the Democrats' victory in
[00:02:03] Congress, as yet another reason why not to form
[00:02:07] a coalition with Benjamin Netanyahu and why Benjamin Netanyahu
[00:02:10] is bad for the future of Israel. This, of course,
[00:02:13] follows the criticism that
[00:02:16] came after Trump announced that from next year, US
[00:02:20] military aid to Israel, amounting to 4 billion, would be abolished,
[00:02:23] which it turns out here that neither the Ministry of Defense, nor the army, nor
[00:02:27] the Ministry of Finance knew about. The opposition criticized this
[00:02:30] as a security risk for Israel
[00:02:34] and an indicator of how risky the relationships
[00:02:37] in the world established by Netanyahu were. Here, it primarily refers to
[00:02:41] that personal relationship with American President Donald
[00:02:44] Trump, which should serve instead of the institutional relationship
[00:02:48] between the two countries.