This is the hard lesson from Israel’s election: to stop national populists, you can’t play by gentlemen’s rules | Jonathan Freedland

The opposition can’t win unless they join forces with Arab parties. Benjamin Netanyahu knows this, and will use every ruse to stay in power It’s less an election result than a philosophical puzzle: what happens when a win contains a loss, a loss contains a win and the two…

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