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WORLD NEWS Thursday 9 June 2022
Israeli minister races to salvage flailing coalition

By EMILY ROSE tlements, as well as dovish
Associated Press parties that oppose them.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s The alliance is the first in
justice minister says he will Israel’s history to include
give the government one an Arab party, the Islamist
final chance to approve a Ra’am, whose members
contentious bill extending abstained or opposed the
legal protections to West bill on Monday.
Bank settlers in a last-ditch Saar, who heads a small
effort to keep the fractured pro-settler party, direct-
coalition in power. ed much of his criticism
Justice Minister Gideon at Ra’am. “From my per-
Saar said in a series of TV in- spective, Ra’am has not
terviews that he will resub- behaved like a party in
mit the bill next Sunday, af- the coalition and will pay
ter the legislation failed to a price for that,” he told
pass earlier this week. Sev- Channel 13 TV.
eral members of the coali- There was no indication
tion joined the opposition in as to whether Ra’am’s
defeating the bill. members would change
Saar called on his fellow how they voted. Another
coalition members to get coalition member who
in line or to exit the gov- voted against the bill,
ernment a scenario that Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, said
would likely plunge the Israeli Minister of Justice Gideon Saar arrives for the first weekly cabinet meeting of the new Wednesday she remained
country into a fifth election government in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 20, 2021. opposed.
in just three years. Associated Press The coalition was formed a
“As long as they don’t raised questions about the created a separate legal could see their legal status year ago, bringing togeth-
make order in their own government’s long-term vi- system for Jewish settlers in thrown into question. Crit- er eight parties that have
party, as far as we are con- ability. the West Bank. It applies ics, including the Palestin- little in common beyond
cerned, they aren’t part of Israeli media said that the parts of Israeli law to them ians and three prominent their shared animosity to

the coalition,” he told Isra- renegade coalition law- even though they live in human rights groups, have former Prime Minister Benja-
el’s Kan public broadcaster makers who didn’t support occupied territory and not said the situation amounts min Netanyahu, who is now

late Tuesday. the bill are being pressure within sovereign Israeli land to apartheid, an allegation the opposition leader.
The bill was seen as a ma- to change their minds or re- while Palestinians live under Israel rejects as an assault After a series of coalition
jor test for the coalition, sign to make way for those military rule, now in its sixth on its legitimacy. defections, parliament is
comprised of parties from who would vote in favor. decade. The coalition includes na- evenly divided 60-60 be-
across the political spec- Emergency regulations in If the bill fails to pass again, tionalistic parties that are tween the coalition and
trum, and its defeat has place for decades have Jewish settlers living there strong supporters of the set- opposition. q

Irish leader sees no UK will to end Brexit trade standoff

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Brit- resolved,” Martin told EU British unionists in Northern
ish government appears lawmakers in Strasbourg, Ireland the only part of the
to have no political will to France. The British govern- U.K. that shares a border
resolve its festering trade ment is expected to publish with an EU member state,
dispute with the European a draft law in the coming Martin’s Ireland oppose
Union and risks endanger- days to remove checks on the trade rules, which cre-
ing the hard-won peace in goods entering Northern ated a customs border in
Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Ireland from the rest of the the Irish Sea.
Minister Micheal Martin said U.K. But there are concerns When Britain left the Euro-
Wednesday. from legal experts that the pean Union and its border-
Prime Minister Boris John- move is unlawful, and the less free-trade zone, the
son’s government said last bill will face opposition in two sides agreed to keep
month that it it would pass Parliament. the Irish land border free
a law to scrap parts of a Britain says its unilateral of customs posts and other
trade treaty with the EU move to breach the legally checks because an open
signed less than two years binding Brexit treaty is an border is a key pillar of the Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheal Martin arrives to give a speech
ago. The EU has threat- insurance policy in case it peace process that ended at the European Parliament, Wednesday, June 8, 2022 in
Strasbourg, eastern France.
ened to retaliate, raising can’t reach an agreement decades of violence in Associated Press
the specter of a trade war with the 27-nation bloc Northern Ireland.
between the two major to end their dispute over Instead, to protect the EU’s on businesses and frayed where they have caused
economic partners. trade rules. single market, there are the bonds between North- a political crisis. The main
“I just simply do not de- Martin said that instead of checks on some goods, ern Ireland and the rest of unionist party is blocking
tect a sustained political the British government try- such as meat and eggs, the U.K. the formation of a power-
will on behalf of the U.K. ing to help fix things, “we entering Northern Ireland Britain’s Conservative gov- sharing government in Bel-
government to settle this, have actually seen efforts from the rest of the U.K. The ernment insists the rules fast, saying it won’t take
to resolve this, because it to block agreements and British unionists say the new also are undermining part until the trade rules are
without question can be introduce new problems.” checks have put a burden peace in Northern Ireland, scrapped.q