Posted on 03/18/2015 2:50:32 PM PDT by goldstategop
"More specifically, Netanyahu's Likud Party won by siphoning voters away from the other right parties who will become its coalition partners. Mainstream Israeli opinion has shifted to the right: to win, Likud didn't need to win over a swath of centrist voters. It needed to jazz up the Right with nasty rhetoric about Palestinians and Arabs."
"Meanwhile, Likud is going through a process that some observers have referred to as Tea Party-ization. Younger Israelis tend to be more conservative, increasingly empowering the more right-wing factions inside Likud. That causes center-right voters to defect to centrist parties, pushing the party ever rightward as it seeks to play to its increasingly conservative support base. "It's a generational shift," Sasley says."
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Not a surprise given Israel is becoming as a whole a more conservative country. This can be seen clearly in the near disappearance of the Far Leftist Meretz Party, the only viable party on the Jewish Left, which has faded.
The result of this picture is the outcome of both changing demographics and Israeli resistance to change that creates an imponderable hurdle for leftist parties to overcome. Labor had a very good set of economic and social issues on which to defeat the Likud but it fell short.
Thus, the Likud's win is a reflection of just conservative a country Israel is becoming and that trend only appears set to grow and strengthen in the years to come.
Time will tell.
“Netanyahu’s Victory is a Disaster For The Surrender Process.”
Boo hoo! Suck it, libs!
” Younger Israelis tend to be more conservative, increasingly empowering the more right-wing factions inside Likud”
Man, do I wish WE had this problem!
Tel Aviv center and north are Labor strongholds, Jerusalem, South Tel Aviv and the development towns go Likud and once Red Haifa is at home with centrist parties.
Thus saith the Ministry of Peace.
There is no peace process, there's only an extermination process. Peace just requires that both sides want to live in peace. It takes but one side to make a war, and that's the problem for Israel, Israelis, and anyone else who wants to live in peace. When someone doesn't want you to live in peace, do NOT cooperate, and when they make war, make it so costly that they never make war again.
May Israel conquer her enemies, and may the God of Jacob, Moses, and Jesus Christ strengthen her arm.
Probably true if you consider "Peace" to be what happens when Barack Obama surrenders to Iran and becomes their ally against Israel.
It will be much more difficult now for Obama to cut a sweetheart deal with Iran but he will persist and will keep the details a secret between him and his Ayatollah.
Face it. The “peace process” is a charade. There can never be a real peace between Palestine and Israel. Both have strong emotional claims to the same land. If either were to make a major concession to the other, it would deny the rational of its own existence. The Palestinians will never forgo their property claims, demands for civil and political rights and access to even to lands within the pre 1967 borders. Likewise Israel will never surrender Jerusalem or leave the West bank to be confined to indefensible borders. Serious Israelis realize that the establishment of a self governing militarized political entity of hostile Palestinians in adjacent Gaza was a strategic disaster. An even larger Palestinian entity would be a chronic security nightmare. The “two state solution” was never a viable option. “Peace talks” will occur occasionally only to placate critics. Whether it be Netanyahu or any other future Israeli leader, there will never be a two state solution.
Well, President Rivlin has been a lifelong advocate of the one-state solution. Interesting to see if this now gets some traction since the two-state solution is DOA.
Conservative - Sounds a bit like this means “Defense-Minded” in this case.
Yes. Take out defense, and the Right in Israel isn't all that conservative by American standards. Even the social conservative religious aren't reliable in favor of small government and free markets. A lot of that feeling is based on Israelis seeing themselves as family instead of just residents of a geographic area.
They are more Liberal in the social and economic issues, while more conservative on the defense issues. Of course what keeps Israel “conservative” on defense issues is the threat of extermination.
In Israel Abortion remains fully supported. And in Israel they are fully supportive of the LGBT groups (the gays). Tel Aviv is known around the world as an excellent place for LGBTs.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Israel have generally been seen as one of the most advanced in the Middle East and Asia.
Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in 1988, although the former law against buggery had not been enforced since a court decision of 1963. Israel became the first in Asia to recognize unregistered cohabitation between same-sex couples, making it the only country in Asia to recognize any same-sex union thus far.
Although same-sex marriages are not performed in the country, Israel recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, making it the first and only country in Asia to do so. Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation was prohibited in 1992. Same-sex couples are allowed to jointly adopt after a court decision in 2008, while previously allowing stepchild adoptions and limited co-guardianship rights for non-biological parents. Gays and lesbians are also allowed to serve openly in the military.
Recent polls have indicated that a majority of Israelis support same-sex marriage, despite some social conservatism.
Tel Aviv has frequently been referred to by publishers as one of the most gay friendly cities in the world, famous for its annual Pride Parade and gay beach, earning it the nickname “the gay capital of the Middle East” by Out magazine. According to LGBT travelers, it was ranked as the best gay city in 2011, despite reports of some LGBT violence during the 2000s, which were criticized by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres. A monument dedicated to the gay victims of the Holocaust was erected in Tel Aviv in 2014.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Israel
It is PRIMARILY defense related, and not on other social issues. See Post #15 ...
There is no “peace process”. The Arabs will not even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. Screw ‘em.
Bingo!
You see right now the ARABS have the THIRD LARGEST group in the Knesset, according to the recent voting. If you have a “One-State Solution” the ARABS will become the LARGEST PARTY in Israel and THEY will be forming the next Israel government, with the influx of all those ARABS who are in the territories right now.
Israel will no longer be a Jewish State, with a One-State Solution, but an Arab country with a large number of Jews in it ... and that’s the big problem with that idea.
Yes, this election has stalled the peace process.
You know, the peace process that has been going on since 1948.
Damn that Netanyahu and Likud. /s
Without them we would have peace in a matter of days. /s
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