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He changed a 30-year relationship with Egypt in a week; helped to convince the Egyptian military not to fire on citizens in the first stage of the revolution; assembled and enabled a successful coalition to intervene in Libya; worked closely with Turkey, the European Union, and Saudi Arabia to increase pressure on Syria; cooperated with Egypt to broker a settlement in Yemen; and worked behind the scenes to convince Bahrain’s government to investigate its own violence against Shia protesters.
General Barak won the election as head of a broad coalition led by his own Labour Party, but including also the Gesher Party, representing North African working-class Jewish immigrants as well as the Meimad movement, representing Orthodox Jews.
It was this coalition, based on the politics of inclusion, which gave Barak his impressive victory: while Netanyahu won the 1996 election by a margin of 0.5%, Barak won this time by a margin of about 10%.
So the authorities responded quickly to the Bush administration's request for Turkish troops to join the coalition, although the idea was stillborn - rejected by both the Kurds and the American-appointed Governing Council in Iraq.
Given the current stalemate between the right and left, a shift of one or two seats (out of 120) in the Knesset could make a difference in the composition of the next government, which in Israel is always a coalition of some type.
Three of these groups – Labor, Yesh Atid, and Hatnuah – were viewed as potential coalition partners in a Netanyahu government; the small, left-wing Meretz was expected to remain in opposition.
In addition to unhappiness with the housing shortage and the state of the economy (particularly the large budget deficit), their vote reflected the sense that radicals in Netanyahu’s coalition were carrying the country to the extreme right.
The election’s outcome initially gave rise to a number of scenarios, including the prospect of Lapid forming an alternative center-left coalition.
Another possibility is that Netanyahu will form a narrow coalition based on partnership with Bennett and the ultra-Orthodox parties.
So it is likely that Netanyahu will form a coalition with Lapid and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Hatnuah party (which won six seats), along with some of his “natural” right-wing allies.
It is difficult but not impossible to identify various compromises that would enable him to create (but not necessarily to maintain) such a coalition.
But such a coalition, composed of parties with contending agendas, would be unstable; the next election may come sooner rather than later.
Second, the US-led coalition was countered by Iran and Russia.
When Assad’s regime recently attacked anti-Assad rebels, the US coalition launched airstrikes that killed around 100 Syrian troops and an unknown number of Russian fighters.
A Merkel-led government could either be a continuation of the grand coalition between Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the center-left Social Democrats or some other political constellation.
While continuing the current coalition may seem advisable in policy terms, it could well strengthen the hand of advocates of radical political change.
In anticipation of an LDP-led government (with the New Komeito Party as a junior coalition partner), financial markets began to move toward a weaker yen.
But, following the collapse of talks to form a new coalition, Merkel suddenly seems mortal.
With the Social Democrats (SPD), her previous grand-coalition partners, opting for opposition after slumping to their worst postwar result, Merkel was forced to seek an uneasy three-party coalition with the Euroskeptic and liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Europhile and more interventionist Greens.
Then, on Sunday night, FDP leader Christian Lindner stormed out of the coalition talks.
It seems unlikely that the FDP – which lost much popular support as a junior partner in a Merkel-led coalition between 2009 and 2013 – will rejoin the talks.
It also seems improbable that the SPD – whose popularity also plummeted during a Merkel-led coalition over the past four years – will reconsider its decision to go into opposition.
In 2011, a Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council coalition had to neutralize an Iran-sponsored Shia insurgency in Bahrain.
This year in Yemen (a predominantly Sunni country), a Saudi-led coalition is fighting the Zaydi Shia Houthi rebels, whom Iran armed in order to take over the country and gain a foothold on the Arabian Peninsula.
So far, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government has not relented, despite the loss of support from a key coalition ally.
It also made possible a broad coalition of countries, as well as the first-ever call for intervention from the Arab League.
These religious parties, a coalition of which now heads the provincial government in the North West Frontier Province, were politically marginalized until given a central role by Pakistan's military dictator of the 1980's, General Zia ul Haq, who led Pakistan's covert intervention in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
His coalition government survives mainly because many members of Israel’s parliament know that they would lose their seats in an early election.
As one expert puts it, a guiding coalition with good managers but poor leaders will not succeed.
For example, Italy’s Five Star Movement, which governs in a coalition with the League, recently called for a “citizen’s income” that would be available to all unemployed people regardless of age.
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