minions with her....

The public remains the same, loyal Zionist, rightly suspicious of Arab intentions and enjoying the fruits of wise economic policies.

What shifted is the Left moving to extreme Left.

The right shifted too to the Left that today it mimmics the positions that Labor had 50 years ago.

This is the appeal that the right has and The Flocker is unable to grasp such a simple truth.

You mentioned that there is no clear reason that the Israeli public lurched to the right. I think you are wrong. The failed promises of Oslo, the failed retreat from Gaza and the realization that there are no partners for peace on the Palestinian side has caused the Israeli public to correctly shift away from the Left’s obsession with Peace and to work with the Right for better economic development. I believe that all Israelis want Peace, equally on the right and left.

Europeans vote according to their perverse emotions and their wishful thinking which are totally unrealistic.

No way. Sure there are many affluent people in central Israel and the Galilee who, with fierce statusquoism will vote Netanyahu: the nuveau rich and the egoists. Many supremacists too, relishing in ap---h--d. Yes, they are a huge.number of people. However, Gantz is a Likud-lite alternative for the Israelis who do have ethical backbone

Interesting sum up before the elections, altho most voters would split on some of his assumption's. Basic point he misses is the countries right swing is proved by the dramatic unparalleled rise of the general's party, which is merely a replacement of labour leadership but not policy. Its chiddush is that being general's they will somehow offer a challenge to the more obvious voter's choice of right-wing parties.

What's about to do the right , diplomatical without general and politcal indentity doctines , learn from past by not doing same mistakes, as new approach in need , as Israel growth to status which has to take th bull from horns and not to pretent that is a sheep.
Enough small or right real ther is difference on Defence , Security and Jewish Indentity????

rabin egged by beillin and peres tried oslo on a leap of faith. it has been a disaster since Arabs want the whole thing, not some peace deal. sharon likewise opined about Gaza withdrawal to reduce friction because settlers were not able or trained to handle things themselves. his unilateral withdrawal did not work out.

lots of Israelis went along with it. since then, olmert, bibi, barak, gantz and yaalon have not dealt with terror fully only doing superficial treatments. israeilis demanded the govt go for the throat,. they did not, not olmert, not barak, not ashkenazi, not bibi, not yaalon, not gantz.

so i am done with going for another ride. yes bibi will step down eventually but he is better than gantz and lapid , especially with bennett at defense, reinforced by zehut and others.

being sick of bibi is not a reason to go along with gantz. read the shapira report you bloody morons.

No matter the result this Tuesday, the demographics favor the religious, nationalist, right. The national religious right have more children. Its simply identity politics. The people who support the failed, secular, socialist kibbutz left ideology do not have a lot of children.

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that had them in its grip for most of the post WW2 period.

The founders which made up the non-religious, socialist type, lost their base in time, because that which they built they tried to dismantle. All based on the distorted ideology that they had no right to be successful in overpowering their enemies, and recognizing the evil of the two-state solution.

We will never really know what motivated Sharon, but the observation that the "depth of the prosecution dictates the depth of the withdrawal" fit the facts and is still the best explanation. After that bout of corruption of all the highest institutions in government: the army, prosecutors office, the judiciary, and the journalists, the sane middle and right have been immunized against a repeat performance. We may someday susceptible to a relapse given renewed faith in the HC, but that is a pipe dream.

The lurch to the right is the lurch to sanity. Every sane Israeli understands the leftist platform is the path of self destruction. Every Israeli child, capable for reading a map, knows ceding Judea and Samaria will destroy Israel. Every sane Israeli knows Israeli concessions and retreats bring nothing but disaster.