Netanyahu sounds alarm over right-wing splinter parties

Netanyahu sounds alarm over right-wing splinter parties

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is worried. New right-wing parties running in the Oct. 27 election will “burn” coalition votes, he warns in a video posted to his Instagram account on Monday. By "burn," he means that votes going to parties that don't pass the 3.25% electoral threshold will be lost to his coalition. Netanyahu painted a potential repeat of 1992, when the right-wing fragmented into multiple parties, many of which failed to…