(Ariel Schalit/AP)In April, Israeli voters will head to the polls to elect a new government. After joining forces with Yesh Atid, Israel’s second-largest opposition party, Gantz has emerged as Netanyahu’s principal rival for leadership of the country. Gantz’s centrist political party, Blue and White, leads the opposition despite being particularly vague on Israel’s most important ideological cleavage: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Between 1996 and 2015, nine different centrist parties have followed this path, most vanishing in less than two electoral cycles. Lacking a clear solution, most centrist parties eventually joined governments that perpetuated rather than weakened the gridlock.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2019 09:56 UTC