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Susan Hirshorn's avatar

Very informative. Thanks!

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Susan Hirshorn's avatar

As the war goes on, it looks like more Israelis are moving to the right. I consider this hopeful if we stand a chance of winning. This just in (abridged) from Jewish News Syndicate: "Israeli Minister-without-Portfolio Gideon Sa’ar announced Tuesday that his New Hope Party will no longer be part of the alliance with Benny Gantz’s Blue and White, essentially dissolving the Knesset entity called the National Unity Party, which as part of the center-left bloc in the 2022 election. Sa’ar, who joined the emergency government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu together with senior members of the National Unity Party shortly after the Oct. 7 atrocities, said he would now seek to have his separate faction get its proper representation by being appointed to the War Cabinet. Sa’ar intends to re-establish New Hope as an independent party that will express, in his words, “the national-responsible worldview.” Sa’ar hopes that his sharp break from Gantz’s and Eizenkot’s arms will work in his favor in the memory of right-wing voters. Since the current war broke out, Sa’ar has tried to show more proximity to the right, blurring his alliance with the anti-Netanyahu camp from the previous year—during which he took an active part in the protests against judicial reform—and has even made sure to differentiate himself from Gantz."

https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-poised-to-welcome-former-rival-saar-into-war-cabinet/?_se=YnNlYnJvd0Bhb2wuY29t&utm_campaign=Morning+Syndicate+Wednesday+03132024&utm_medium=email&utm_source=brevo

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Joshua Hoffman's avatar

I can relate. I like Sa’ar and voted for him once in a previous election after he broke away from Likud but before he teamed up with Gantz.

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Nachum Kaplan's avatar

Very interesting read.

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Shaked Koplewitz's avatar

The part about Jews becoming a minority in a few generations if they allowed democracy is silly; as you point out later, non-jews are only 21% of the population (which includes multiple subgroups, not just Arabs), and no one wants to give the Palestinians voting rights in Israel (the left wants a two state solution specifically to avoid this).

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Joshua Hoffman's avatar

I meant that the extreme left wants to give the Palestinians voting rights in Israel — one state for two peoples.

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Viktor Khandourine's avatar

There is no way for the left to escape this with a two-state solution. Israel, as it was a state for those peoples who live in it, will remain so.

And the second state will not in any way influence the balance of power in Israel, which will not change with the advent of a state for the Arabs.

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Usually Wash's avatar

Even more silly with Arab tfr in Israel now below Jewish TFR and dropping

The “extreme left” also conflates left-Zionist like Meretz with non-Zionist like Hadash.

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Markus Rose's avatar

Very informative. I’m interested in what those on the Israeli Right who reject the idea of giving up territory think the solution to the Palestinian problem is. Is there support for removing the Arabs from Eretz Israel? If not, then what else is there?

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Rachel Moore's avatar

The vast majority of Religious Zionists in Israel do not live in Judea and Samaria, and only 1/3 of those living in Judea and Samaria are religious zionists. This is commonly misunderstood, but our delineation above is inaccurate on this.

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