Israel's coalition game: Netanyahu, Eisenkot play political bluff - who will blink first?

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Netanyahu talks unity, Liberman talks haredi compromise, and Eisenkot needs partners, but no coalition is real until someone says what they will give up.

Welcome to Israel's Rip Van Winkle season. Also known as coalition negotiations.You could go to sleep now and wake up when there's a government and miss remarkably little. You'd sleep through the leaks, the trial balloons, the rumors of imminent breakthroughs, and the categorical denials of things that turn out to have been true on Monday and irrelevant by Thursday.This is the season when it's hard to tell what's real, what's posturing, and what's simply wishful thinking.When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls for a “unity” government, does he mean it, or is he trying to make Yashar head Gadi Eisenkot look like the one standing in the way?If he means it, why use the reception after the…

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