JERUSALEM - Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are taking another look at teaming up in a governing coalition, Israeli media reported yesterday.
The alliance would give the incoming government stronger international support because of Livni's commitment to establishing a Palestinian state.
The reports emerged as Netanyahu appeared on the verge of forming a narrow government with ultranationalist and religious parties that would take a harder line on concessions to the Palestinians than Livni's would.
Livni said after her last round of coalition talks with Netanyahu two weeks ago that Kadima would not be part of a coalition that was not committed to negotiations on Palestinian statehood. She also has said she would only join Netanyahu's government if he let her serve as prime minister for half of the government's four-year term. Netanyahu rejected the proposal.
