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