BREAKING NEWS:  NEW ELECTIONS CALLED IN ISRAEL TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR TRUMP'S "DEAL OF THE CENTURY" OPPOSED BY CONSERVATIVE PARTY

"The release of United States President Donald Trump's 'deal of the century' for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be postponed until the summer to enable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party to win the April 9th Knesset election, according to Channel 2 News"

"Arutz Sheva"-Israel National News Report 11:41 AM Eastern Time US 12/24/2018-LINK

"Anticipating the Trump administration's rollout of its peace plan, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked told the "Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference" on Wednesday that it will be a waste because the gaps between Israel and the Palestinians are too great to bridge"

"Jerusalem Post" Report  11/21/2018-LINK

"Trump's deal of the century includes a Palestinian state, under certain conditions. We will object to that because that means there will be another Arab entity west of the Jordan (River)"

Education Minister Naftali Bennett of the "Jewish Home" Party Inteviewed By Israel's Army Radio-Galei Zahal-LINK

There will be new elections early in Israel on April 9th.    That was the word today from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying "bills could not be passed" in Israel's Parliament (Knesset).

Now the various factions will compete for the 120 seats allocated proportionally to any party getting more than four percent of the popular vote.

Israel's outspoken Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz says the division of religious and secular factions is bringing on the election.   And they are real enough, with both sides fighting over a law on the drafting of religious Israelis for military service as the secularists resent the exemptions for religious people and religious insist their religious obligations come first.

But another issue lurking in the shadows and opposed by the Zionist conservatives of the Jewish Home party has been cited,  President Donald J. Trump's "Deal of the Century" between Israel and the Palestinians.

And then there's the corruption cases against Mr. Netanyahu with word leaked out to the "Haaretz" newspaper last week that prosecutors in the State Prosecutors Office want the Attorney General to indict the Prime Minister in the Case 2000 and Case 4000 bribery-corruption cases.

The AG says the election call will not impact when or if he decides on indictment.

Avi Gabbay, the leader of the Zionist Union (the former and once mighty Labor Party) in Israel, says it's an election between him and Netanyahu to "save Israel's democracy".

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