Date : 4/8/2019 6:00:46 PM
From : "The Economist News Desk"
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Subject : Binyamin Netanyahu woos the right ahead of Israel’s general election

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Monday | April 8th 2019

Israeli politics
Bibi’s final appeal

Tomorrow Israelis go to the polls to vote in the general election. Binyamin Netanyahu is fighting for a fifth term as prime minister, and banking on right-wing voters for support. In an interview on Saturday he promised to start annexing the West Bank by extending Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the occupied territory. Mr Netanyahu’s promise may be an election stunt. But President Donald Trump’s support could turn it into a reality. That would probably kill a two-state solution

American politics
A tougher direction

“Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service,” tweeted Mr Trump yesterday evening. Though Ms Nielsen lasted more than a year as America’s secretary of homeland security, Mr Trump had long regarded her as weak. She was the face of the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, and it is unclear what she could have done to satisfy him. Her departure portends another election campaign with immigration policy at its centre

European nationalism
Salvini’s family occasion

Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, is seeking to fuse Europe’s right-wing populist parties into a single movement ahead of next month’s European Parliament elections. That will be difficult. The nationalist right in Europe is divided on key issues, such as immigration and economic policy. It is also split across three groups in the European Parliament. Perhaps that explains why there were some notable absences at Mr Salvini’s announcement in Milan this morning

Sudan
Last days of the dictatorship?

On Saturday tens of thousands of protesters marched in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, calling on President Omar al-Bashir to step down. It was the largest demonstration since protests began in December in response to rising food prices, and suggests that the uprising against Mr Bashir’s 30 year-old kleptocracy has entered its most crucial phase. There are signs the armed forces are beginning to move against the president. That could plunge the country into greater violence

~7pm London


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