A consistent majority of Israeli polls show prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s current coalition bloc with the ultra-Orthodox and the far right will fall well below the threshold of 61 seats needed to form a government.
The opposition has a clear path to power through an alliance with parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel, known as Arab parties inside the country.
Hopefully Netanyahu loses. I wonder how the hatemongers will react to a coalition that includes Arab parties governing Israel? Likely y’all will just start hating Arab Israelis too, hatred is just too addicting for anyone to kick the habit.
You are framing opposition to an apartheid regime responsible for genocide as rooted in irrational hatred and hate mongering. That’s weird.
If somehow a coalition involving Arab parties end up in power, one should expect some concrete steps towards dismantling apartheid and holding genocide perpetrators accountable. That would be a fantastic set of steps. That’s also extremely unlikely. If somehow some Arab Israeli politicians get coopted into a political arrangement that perpetuates the genocidal apartheid regime, then of course they would deserve all the scorn that would be coming their way. None of this is irrational hatemongering. It’s politics around measurable outcomes.
That said, I find it highly unlikely that Arab Israeli parties will end up in any kind of stable government. It would be red meat for the far right and there seems to exist no political will in the Israeli electorate to seek any reasonable political resolution.
afaik the leading opposition is a centrist Yashar! party led by Gadi Eisenkot who does not acknowledge Gaza being a genocide and mostly same on Gaza though does acknowledge that Israeli settler terrorists need to be stopped. So it seems like a mild improvement at best?
Hopefully Netanyahu loses. I wonder how the hatemongers will react to a coalition that includes Arab parties governing Israel? Likely y’all will just start hating Arab Israelis too, hatred is just too addicting for anyone to kick the habit.
You are framing opposition to an apartheid regime responsible for genocide as rooted in irrational hatred and hate mongering. That’s weird.
If somehow a coalition involving Arab parties end up in power, one should expect some concrete steps towards dismantling apartheid and holding genocide perpetrators accountable. That would be a fantastic set of steps. That’s also extremely unlikely. If somehow some Arab Israeli politicians get coopted into a political arrangement that perpetuates the genocidal apartheid regime, then of course they would deserve all the scorn that would be coming their way. None of this is irrational hatemongering. It’s politics around measurable outcomes.
That said, I find it highly unlikely that Arab Israeli parties will end up in any kind of stable government. It would be red meat for the far right and there seems to exist no political will in the Israeli electorate to seek any reasonable political resolution.
afaik the leading opposition is a centrist Yashar! party led by Gadi Eisenkot who does not acknowledge Gaza being a genocide and mostly same on Gaza though does acknowledge that Israeli settler terrorists need to be stopped. So it seems like a mild improvement at best?