Coalition
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This was accomplished with only modest human and economic cost to the extraordinary multi-national
coalition
assembled by President George H.W. Bush.
An indefinite building freeze would lead to the immediate end of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s
coalition
government in Jerusalem, without giving Israel or Netanyahu anything tangible in return.
In recent German state elections, Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and its government partner, the Social Democratic Party, experienced notable losses, which could mean that Germany’s grand
coalition
is at risk ahead of next year’s election.
The Politics of EntitlementsCAMBRIDGE: In elections last March, Estonia’s reform government was rudely toppled from power by a left-leaning
coalition.
As a result of the Trump administration’s abandonment of Obama-era restraints on the use of airpower, a US-led
coalition
“victory” in Mosul, Iraq, caused thousands of civilian casualties and left a pile of rubble.
And, slowly but surely, local embryonic civil-rights movements are linking up with global leaders – Girls Not Brides, Walk Free, and A World at School – as part of an emergency
coalition
to eliminate child labor, child marriage, and educational discrimination against girls.
The Trump administration is taking shape as a
coalition
of businesspeople who wrongly believe that protectionism is a good way to help the economy and market fundamentalists who now dominate the Republican caucus in the US House of Representatives.
Though he presumably hopes that his commentary will increase the likelihood that his preferred policies are adopted, the more likely real-world effect will be to diminish support for existing policies without marshaling support for a
coalition
that can implement effective replacements.
Among crisis countries, Greece turned to Alexis Tsipras’s far-left Syriza coalition, while the former dominant parties, New Democracy and Pasok, jointly gained less than one-third of the popular vote.
If Iraqi Shi’ite leader Muqtada al-Sadr and his followers chose to stop their own violence, it was not simply because of the superior firepower of the
coalition
forces.
The American-led
coalition
can help by taking more steps that would reinforce a message of hope and optimism for the exhausted and demoralized Sunnis of Iraq.
So the DPJ took power, and formed a
coalition
government with two smaller parties, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and the People’s New Party (PNP).
The ripple effect of these scandals – which include allegations of accepting some $300,000 in gifts over the course of a decade – could engulf an already-fragile political dynamic in Israel, where rivals within Netanyahu’s
coalition
hold tremendous sway over him and his Likud faction.
If he goes against his principles and surrenders to the aggressive demands of his coalition, he will be compromising his allegiance to the office he holds and the country he governs.
Clearly, the reforms proposed and already partly enacted by the government are unpopular, and there is little doubt that, a year after their re-election, the
coalition
of the Social Democrats and the Greens would not stand much of a chance at the polls.
The new coalition, the Organization for the Liberation of the Levant (HTS), also attracted factions from its main rival, Ahrar al-Sham.
The current Ahrar commander, Ali al-Omar, heads this new
coalition.
An Assault on India’s InstitutionsNEW DELHI – In India’s Karnataka state, the governor is favoring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form a government, despite an opposition
coalition
having won more seats in the state legislature.
Cambodia, too, seemed like it had reached a political breakthrough after the opposition
coalition
nearly won the 2013 general election.
The grand
coalition
with the center-left Social Democratic Party that she is likely to form will command a super-majority of 503 seats in the 630-seat Bundestag.
Instead, it will probably lead a
coalition
government, though with which other parties remains unclear.
No doubt special circumstances accompanied that vote, but the effort which the country's most respected and powerful politician expended in order to gain the backing of Germany's parliament (as well as his
coalition
partners, the Greens) should be a warning to other Western governments not to leave their publics behind as they engage in the tough, multi-year campaign against the planners and executors of international terrorism.
After all, only the ingrained habit of playing second fiddle to the US prevents EU members from clearly and loudly distancing themselves from Israel's repressive interferences on the West Bank and Gaza, even though such a stance would help strengthen the commitment of Arab states to the
coalition
against terrorism as well as provide a useful shove to American diplomacy.
There is little except national inertia, complacency and opportunism that stands in the way of beginning to formulate and implement a distinct EU policy to bolster the
coalition
against terrorism.
When Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi threatened to kill his rebellious detractors like “rats,” a UN
coalition
intervened under an emerging global doctrine: the responsibility to protect.
The most sensible outcome is currently a political non-starter: a Conservative-Labour
coalition
government, with (say) Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and Jeremy Corbyn as his deputy.
When Saddam defied the resolutions, a 34-country coalition, supporting the United States-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm, drove his troops out of Kuwait.
The US has rushed to form a confusing
coalition
with nearly 30 countries, including ten Arab states.
How the
coalition
will be organized and what results it will achieve remain to be seen.
In 2005, more than 125
Coalition
troops were killed, while suicide bombing emerged as a new and increasingly common tactic of the insurgency.
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