General Discussion

Thank you for this informative post.

One of the myths about Israel currently is that Netanyahu is a blip and the centrists/left-wing has a chance at ousting him. The reality is that right-wing nationalism, support for occupaton/annexation etc are now baked in to Israeli public opinion and have been for a while. This is Israel now and in the future.

Interesting that only 10 Knesset seats out of 160 are allotted for "Arabs" aka Palestinian Citizens of Israel as they prefer to be called. They represent 21% of Israel's population, yet get only 6% of Knesset seats. Doesn't seem very democratic to me.

It's funny to me that the fact "Arabs" are allowed to hold Knesset seats is touted as proof they have equal rights to Israeli Jews - one even is a Supreme Court judge!! - but their under-representation is of course never mentioned.

The other interesting thing is that the Arab parties are never invited the "party". No one, not the right-wing or even centre/left wants them in their coalition. Aside from what this says about how they view the "Arabs" it's certainly a further dilution of their political power, paltry as it already is.