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Israel's high-turnout vote brushed aside in rest of the Middle East
CAIRO/BEIRUT/GAZA: Israelis voted in record numbers in Tuesday’s wartime election billed as a major turning point in the nation’s history. Others across the Middle East were merely filled with more pessimism after a nationalist veteran prime minister and a former hawkish military chief competed for Israel’s leadership. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, won the support of an unexpectedly clear majority of Israeli Jews in the contest, apparently ensuring he will survive at least in a caretaker role. In Egypt, the first Arab country to make peace with Israel in 1979, 62...
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