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Israel will get a period of temporary relief from international pressure with a national unity government. But the Palestinians will most definitely continue and even increase the pace of their international diplomatic strategy. If the national unity government refrains from building more settlements, the slowdown of international pressure on Israel will last longer. If it continues to build, in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank, Israel will face the international pressure as the Palestinians continue to stride forward with more international recognition of the State of Palestine and of course with its steps towards dragging Israel into the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The Palestinians will probably focus their efforts of the issue of the illegality of settlements and much less on war crimes accusations against Israeli leaders and officers.The Israeli national unity government will be forced to stand unified in defense of Israel regardless of the differences of opinions within the government. Yet it is difficult to envision much more of a common agenda for the two main parties within one government, particularly after the hit each other so viciously during the campaign. I guess that is the "art" of politics.One last note as an immediate response to the elections - the level of racist incitement and hatred in this campaign has surpassed anything that we have witnessed until now. I am bewildered at some of the expressions of hatred that have been voiced mostly by Benyamin Netanyahu in his despicable calls for his supporters to vote today because the "Arabs were being bussed in to vote in mass". I can't imagine a statement like that being made in any other Western democracy, except by the right wing extremist fringes.Likewise, in a normal western democracy Avigdor Lieberman would be brought up on criminal charges for some of the statements that he made against the Arab citizens of Israel. These statements are a disgrace to Israel and its people and citizens' voices should be heard loud and clear in their condemnation. And more importantly, the arm of the law should come down on with full force.