Okay, let’s start by getting the good news out of the way. Israel’s election results seem to indicate that the electorate’s headlong charge towards an authoritarian-style religious-right style of government has stalled. For now. The slap in the face suffered by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-Beiteinu and the fact that Habayit Hayehudi, while gaining seats in the next Knesset, did not do as well as expected by the...
The more Israeli voters change, the more they stay the same
Capricious, malleable, but with strong democratic instincts.
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