Arab affairs analyst Dr. Edy Cohen addressed what he described as a campaign across the Arab world against the Likud Party and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an interview Tuesday on Yoman Tzohorayim. “They want to bring down the Right,” Cohen said.
Cohen began by addressing the Likud candidate primaries held Monday. “Likud voters determined the list. Some are disappointed and some less so, but we need to think about the day after the Likud Party primaries,” he said.
According to Cohen, however, the significance extends beyond Israeli domestic politics and into the Arab world. “Unfortunately, Arab states have launched a campaign against the prime minister and against Likud,” he claimed. “They want to bring down the prime minister—not to bring him down personally or Likud for its own sake,” Cohen continued.
He argued that those behind the campaign believe removing Netanyahu could set off a political chain reaction inside Israel. “In Arab countries, they think they can create a domino effect: If they bring down the prime minister, Likud will collapse. If they crush Likud, they will crush the Right—and that already leads the country toward the Left and toward a ‘Palestinian’ state,” Cohen explained.