Cronkite school of journalism at
Arizona state university.
Judy: Benjamin Netanyahu was
sworn in as prime minister today
in Israel but his cabinet and
his government's are
controversial.
Don young has the story.
Reporter: Inside the Israeli
knesset today Benjamin Netanyahu
celebrated his return as prime
minister.
>> This is the sixth time I am
presenting a government headed
by me for the parliaments
approval and I am a excited as
the first time.
-- And I am as excited as the
first time.
Reporter: Hundreds of
demonstrators protested it.
>> We are here to demonstrate
against the government about to
rise up in Israel.
A horrible government with a lot
of criminals sitting there.
Reporter: After two months of
intensive negotiations, Benjamin
Netanyahu assembled Israel's
most far right ultranationalist
government ever.
One of the most controversial
coalition figures, an individual
previously convicted of inciting
racism.
He has been appointed minister
of national security overseeing
the national police.
A hard-line tilt of the new
government worries some
Israelis.
>> Our biggest fear is that the
is really's are following Russia
, Poland and Hungary.
Reporter: Among the policies
that the coalition partners
agreed to, giving lawmakers veto
power over supreme court
decisions allowing businesses
including physicians to
discriminate against serving
lgbtq people based on religious
beliefs and perhaps the most
controversial, declaring the
jewish people's exclusive and
inalienable right to all parts
of the land of Israel including
the west bank.
Chechan -- tencent is already
running high and palestine
officials anticipate the most
challenging period ever in Arab
--between Israeli and
Palestinian governments.
>> This government is the most
threatening and extremist.
I know for a fact that the
international community will not
deal with many members of this
government.
To us, we are against all of the
governments that practice
killing and oppression on our
people.
Reporter: As a new chapter in
Israel begins with Netanyahu
extending his record as a
longest-serving prime minister.
There are all sorts of potential
implications of this new Israeli
government within Israeli
politics, society and between
Israelis and Palestinians.
David Mccloskey is a long time
is really water and is director
on the project of Arab Israeli
relations.
Welcome.
How different is this coalition
government from the other
coalitions that Netanyahu
formed?
>>'S winning strategy and the
reason he has won five terms
until now is he has identified
-- he is identified as a
stabilizer bringing economic
prosperity.
Israel's high-tech industry has
helped to power Israel as its
gdp is ahead of Germany.
Tough on the Palestinian issue
but at the same time be very
careful not to be an adventurous
and not getting people killed in
Israel.
And be vigilant on the Iranian
nuclear program and try to keep
good ties with the united
States.
That has been his winning
formula.
He has thrown his playbook out
the window.
Instead of going with a
center-right Independence, he
has moved to a more populous,
even more radical right.
And his belief that, what can I
do, the centerleft boy cuts me
because they say I am on trial
for corruption, these are my
only partners so I have to come
to the dance with the ones I
brought.
Reporter: A lot of attention
given to the coalitions stated
politics on the west bank.
We have a map showing in purple
the established settlements, the
authorized settlements.
In green are the outposts, the
unauthorized outpost.
Talk us through the implications
of this for Israeli-Palestinian
relations.
>> The Clinton administration
and the George W. Bush
administration and the Obama
administration of which I was
part of the negotiating team was
based on the idea that most of
the sellers live near is really
cities, the green line.
And those, the clusters or block
settlements, 80 5% of the
Israeli settlers over the line
live largely adjacent to that
line but most of the west bank,
about 92% would go to the
Palestinians.
Either side of what we call the
security barrier.
In an anticipated two state
solution.
What happened was the first
iteration was the trump peace
plan of 2020 which said every
settlement will be called for
Israel.
One of Netanyahu's junior
coalition partners on stick take
it to the next level staying
there are unauthorized outpost
that are wildcat settlements
that the cabinet has never voted
on.
Let's legalize them.
If you add 78 settlements on the
Palestinian side and now another
70 plus settlements, about 150
settlements, there is not room
for a two state solution.
Reporter: President Biden
congratulated Netanyahu with
boilerplate language but he also
said that the United States
would continue to support the
two state solution and oppose
policies that endanger its
viability or contradicts our
mutual interests.
Signs of a rocky relationship
between Washington and
Jerusalem?
>> I think it was an opening
salvo but for the most part
Bidens style is to view foreign
policy as relationships between
leaders.
I don't expect to have a slug
match between the two of them.
I think he will send Sullivan or
Antony blinken to prepare a
white house meeting and I think
the prince of all is we want to
hold the prime minister to a set
of principles that undergird,
not just our shared interest but
also our shared values and that
means no change in the status
quo on the temple mount which is
in the coalition guidelines, no
universal annexation of the west
bank or mass legalization of
outposts.
And there are more of these --
make sure the Palestinian
authority does not collapse in
the west bank.
Reporter: You mentioned earlier
that Netanyahu is on trial for
corruption charges.
How will that affect how he
governs?
>> When the center and the left
said we will not go with you on
the hard right says, we will go
with you, he sees that they will
extricate him from his trial.
They don't trust him because
they don't think he is hard
right.
But after you have delivered for
us then we would pass some
legislation.
The question is, how beholden is
he and how embittered is he?
He believes it is an elite
judiciary out to get him.
Some say he uses it politically
while others say it has
embittered him and he will go
with a hard right all the way
because they are like his get
out of jail free card.
Reporter: The coalition is also
calling for changes in society
saying people cannot serve or
discriminate based on religious
beliefs.
Not just lgbtq but also separate
events for genders.
>> Lgbtq is very popular in
Israel.
For the first time Israel's
knesset speaker is in openly gay
likud right wing guy.
But yet he put it in the
coalition agreements for
religious parties that say, we
don't want to treat someone and
he says, that is not our way.
To summarize -- the success of
Israel is finding the
equilibrium between a liberal
democratic institution and also
being a homeland as a jewish
state.
And that it will labrum has not
always -- and the equilibrium
has not always been perfect but
they have strived for balance
but now we have a coalition of
people that want to move Israel
away from its bearings of a
liberal democracy.
They want to recalibrate things
whether it is the courts, they
want to throw out a professional
, attorney general and bring in
an in-house lawyer.
They want to override the
supreme court laws with a bare
majority or they want to change
the personnel in the military.
The military has been sacrosanct
but they want to change it
because they feel they have been
curbed on border issues.
Reporter: David Mccloskey, thank
you very much.
>> Delighted to be with you.