Israel: Netanyahu re-elected, and now?

Likud supporters exploded with joy when they learned the re-election of their leader. While polls and early results gave Benjamin Netanyahu and the center-left list Herzog elbow to elbow, it is ultimately "Bibi" who won.

So it piles up again for a fourth term, the third consecutive. This is unprecedented in the history of Israel. So the choice of continuity, but in pain, because the Palestinian side and abroad, relations deteriorated.

Is it the only one who enjoys the confidence of the Israeli people? Did he sees as the only one able to protect? Netanyahu has indeed largely based his campaign on the security argument. The question now is to know under what conditions will govern.

"This government is going to count many members and each will shoot in his direction, and manage it will be much more complex to Netanyahu that can lead one to believe today's celebrations" believes political analyst Amotz Asael.

Which coalition he will build? He will try to facilitate diplomacy in rallying the Labour Party, or will he choose to ally with Moshe Kahlon? The Likud defector has already indicated he was ready to join the government. A union with the religious parties and the right-wing Avigdor Lieberman is also a likely scenario.

In any case, the Palestinian side, re-election is a disappointment. True, they had little illusion, but now they are determined to go all the way to bring Israeli leaders to the International Criminal Court for war crimes.

"The old policy will continue. Netanyahu was very clear during the last days of the campaign. Never accept a Palestinian state, it will not withdraw one centimeter of the occupied Palestinian territories, Jerusalem will remain the united capital of Israel and that means there will not be any peace negotiations, "Abdullah Abdullah slice member of the Palestinian Authority.

Netanyahu will also be judged by history on the Palestinian issue. Its strategy to raise the stakes on security issues has finally paid off. But he faces another challenge. The economic expectations of the Israelis, very present during the campaign, should soon reappear on the front of the stage.

We asked Uri Dromi, founder and president of the Jerusalem Press Club and a former spokesman for the government of Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin in the 1990s, that he gives us his analysis on these results.

Alasdair Sandford, euronews: "Have you been surprised by the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud?"

Uri Dromi: "Of course I was. All polls predicted a narrow victory of the Labour Party, and when they announced that they were neck-and-neck with Likud, I was still a little surprised, but I was considering the possibility for Labour to form a coalition and then in the morning, I was like most Israelis and people abroad, very surprised by the results.

euronews: "Benjamin Netyahou placed great emphasis on security, threats to Israel. In the end, does that message get paid? "

Uri Dromi: "I think Netanyahu has successfully managed to have it both ways. On the one hand it is seen as the one most likely to meet the security challenges and at the same time, including Kahlon and making him a minister of state in his future cabinet, it means that the Israelis n is not indifferent to their grievances "

euronews: "Taking this into account, according to you, what kind of government should be formed in the coming weeks?"

Uri Dromi: "We will have a center-right government, tending to the right, a government" hawk ", but rather socialist on social and economic issues"

euronews: "Netanyahu said no to a Palestinian state, and yes to more settlements in the occupied territories. What are the consequences to you? "

Uri Dromi: "First of all for the Palestinians, it is a sign that there is no Israeli partner. Moreover, the feeling of Israelis in general is that there is no Palestinian partner. So anyway, there is a blockage, a dead end, and the Middle East, especially in our region and in our relations with the Palestinians, there is no place for the status quo, s 'There is no progress something has to happen, or another intifada or increased pressure through the UN, or even the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen and or what its successor may say 'OK enough of this! A state you want, so do have a state in which the Arabs will represent maybe 40% or 45% of the population and that is the end of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. " So this is an area in which there is no room for vacuum, so I hardly see Netanyahu do nothing "