In addition to all the challenges that Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has faced in trying to bring together an unlikely, ideologically diverse ruling coalition, analysts say he It must also deal with the coordinated attempt of its predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, to undermine the government’s work and take it down.

On June 13, the Knesset was sworn in. New Eight Party Alliance The government — led by the right-wing nationalist Bennett — is made up of left-wing, centrist and right-wing parties, as well as parties representing Israeli and Palestinian citizens.

It ended Netanyahu’s 12-year term as prime minister. Netanyahu was the most dominant Israeli politician of his generation. He failed to form a government after Israel’s general election on March 23. For the fourth time in this year.

Netanyahu’s continuation Corruption TrialThe allegations he denies will only deepen his despair of regaining power. As the new opposition leader of the Knesset and the leader of the Likud group, the largest party in the parliament, he and his allies have been using a series of political strategies to defeat the parliamentary government.

“Netanyahu and Likud are determined to weaken the ability of this government to function properly,” Donna Robinson Devine, the Morningstar Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at Smith College, told Al Jazeera.

“They are deploying every Knesset rule and procedure to oppose any proposal made by the government.”

“They exacerbated the confusion in discourses that are usually not entirely citizens. Therefore, Netanyahu’s approach is to set up various obstacles to the reforms and legislation that the coalition wants,” she said.

“Three Strategies”

“Netanyahu used three tactics in his desperate attempt to bring him back to power, and by doing so, he might be able to avoid facing various criminal charges against him again,” Netanyahu University political science professor Yi Said Ian Lustick. Pennsylvania told Al Jazeera.

He said that the first strategy is to use various procedural methods, insults and personal slander to shape the image of the new government as illegal or fraudulent.

Lustik said: “This includes disrupting the Knesset’s meetings, and until recently refused to vacate the prime minister’s house and insisted that his followers continue to call Netanyahu the prime minister.”

Netanyahu also undermined Bennett’s authority by acting as if he was still in power, including his recent notification to the public that he had called the CEOs of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and Hyundai Pharmaceuticals to purchase new COVID for Israel. Vaccine dose.

Secondly, Lustic said that Netanyahu and his allies tried to use obstruction to obstruct and delay government legislation, and passed a series of bills aimed at taking advantage of ideological differences on controversial topics, thus in power. Tensions were created within the alliance; especially between Bennett and other parties, the former settler leader and far-right religious nationalist called for the annexation of most of the occupied West Bank.

“Through the proposal and settlements, civil rights and [Palestinian citizens of Israel]Or how to strongly oppose U.S. contacts with Iran, which may make the alliance tense by forcing the alliance to unite in a position that is unacceptable to its left or right or both,” Lustick said.

Third, the opposition is also trying to coax or induce coalition members, including Defense Minister Benny Gantz, to abandon it and instead support an agreement to reach a new government represented by Netanyahu.

United by “strong disgust”

The alliance’s room for error is very small. It has suffered several major failures in the Knesset, including Failed to extend the law This deprives Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip of their citizenship and residency rights to marry Israeli Palestinian citizens.

Netanyahu had previously supported the law, but opposed the extension of the law during the voting in early July.

In addition, since this is a government composed of relatively inexperienced politicians, it made several mistakes in the first month of taking office-for example, the Speaker of the Israeli Parliament, Mickey Levy, accidentally voted against it. A government-supported bill.

“The league will have to be better at using programs to prove that it can govern,” Divine said.

“If they want a political future in Israel, all of them have sufficient motivation to quickly climb the steep learning curve.”

However, Lustick said the new government has also proved to be quite skillful in resisting Netanyahu’s sabotage attempts and shelved controversial topics that might widen the alliance’s internal divisions.

“Although the coalition contains elements that occupy very different positions in the Israeli political spectrum, the problem that traditionally defines this spectrum-how to deal with the political spectrum? [occupied Palestinian] Territory… and whether a two-state solution can be reached through negotiation-has been completely removed from the agenda,” Lustick said.

Crucially, the alliance is united by mutual dissatisfaction with Netanyahu.

“Because of the strong dislike of Netanyahu, the fear of the consequences of the Likud and its ultra-orthodox allies returning to power, and their desire to spend so long in the political wilderness, enjoying privileges and the right to hold ministerial positions, “Lustic said.

Uriel Abulof, a visiting associate professor at Cornell University, told Al Jazeera that the alliance not only succeeded in overcoming the pitfalls and challenges set by the opposition, but also had some success in outlining its own political agenda.

The coalition launched a bill aimed at advancing plans to tackle corruption and nepotism, relax severe restrictions on the agricultural sector, and reform the trade bureaucracy.

“Not only did it survive, but it also began to change the agenda and set some ambitious goals, outlining many much-needed reforms,” Ablov said.

“However, some serious mistakes-such as increasing the defense budget-may damage its prospects and appeal.”

The coalition will face a key touchstone in November, when the new budget needs to pass the Knesset-it needs a simple majority.

Ablov said that although Israel’s political system was shaken after four elections in two years, it has long faced aggressive tactics-including Netanyahu himself as part of the opposition in the 1990s, when he His actions are “more radical and worse”—and the post-Netanyahu era provides an opportunity to shift to a less hateful, divisive political approach.

“Tribalism reached its peak under Netanyahu. If anything, tribalism may begin to decline now, but it depends largely on the survivability of the alliance and provide Israel with a new and exciting A vision that embraces all tribes and advances together,” Ablov said.

But if possible, Netanyahu is likely to continue to seek to return to the post of prime minister, especially when the threat of prison is over him.

“He will do everything he can to restore power,” Abulov said.