Jerusalem Daily: Who will form Israel’s next government?

Accusations of foreign interference in Israeli elections continue to fly as Netanyahu and Eisenkot both scramble to form the coalitions needed to govern. Meanwhile, forced displacement and home demolitions in Hebron continue as Israel's strangling siege on the city enters its ninth day. Was there really any foreign interference in Israel's elections or was it yet another attempt by Netanyahu to scapegoat others for his party failing to win a majority? Accusations that Qatar and Turkiye interfered by funneling money to candidates and bribing Palestinian citizens of Israel have been dismissed as baseless and ridiculous. The Elections Commission found no evidence of fraud, yet some are still clinging on to these ideas. First of all, it's not just Qatar that is being accused of this meddling, it's also Turkey. Two, we found people with bags of cash, OK, and stuffed envelopes, OK, in places where in Arab villages where the voter turnout was at a maximum of maybe 19 or 20 percent. All of a sudden, it turned into a 90 percent voter turnout, which is rather rare in this case. I think everybody in Israel is absolutely pleased that everybody is participating in its democracy, that nearly two million Arabs voted in Israel's elections, which is absolutely amazing. The issue is whether or not they were paid to vote, which is against Israeli law, or paid to have their vote swayed a specific way. When you have an increase of almost 60 percent voter turnout in a specific area, Questions are definitely going to be raised. First, I'll start with condemning any intervention in any other country's internal affairs. And I wish Israel would stop doing this. And I think this hypocrisy of Israelis complaining about interference in their election after intervening in every election in Western countries and military intervention in neighboring countries in interior issues. I think this is just hilarious. The whole political debate in America right now is over Israeli interference in the American election. While Gadi Eizenkot commended his opponent Netanyahu for reportedly taking action with the Shin Bet against foreign interference, he also accused him of using his typical tactic of illegitimate influence operations on the Israeli public, aiming to delay and undermine the final election results. Netanyahu continues to completely oppose any coalition with Arab-led parties. Netanyahu's son, Yair, has also been posting about Arab parties and Arab voters, calling them the next biggest threat to Israel aside from the Iranian nuclear threat. But Eisenkot's bloc has not yet completely ruled out forming a coalition with the Arab-led parties, the Joint List and Ra'am. However, deep-rooted political and ideological differences make forming a coalition between them difficult to imagine. As a new Israeli government is set to be formed in the coming weeks, the long-standing policies of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank persist. Nine days into Israel's military operation and lockdown of Hebron, the city's municipality The police said the operation has resulted in the displacement of 537 families so far. So far, as well as the arrest of 125 Palestinians, 15 of whom were placed under administrative detention. Meanwhile, Israeli settler violence against Palestinian olive farmers and activists continues in the village of Kafr Malik in the occupied West Bank. And when the Israeli army intervenes, it's not to stop the settlers. Instead, they arrest activists who come to support Palestinian farmers with their harvest, a harvest that has become synonymous with Israeli settler attacks, the theft of olives and army complicity.