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sabbat hunter

(6,963 posts)
2. The Israeli
Tue Mar 14, 2023, 06:08 PM
Mar 2023

left/center left has completely collapsed. Labor party is down to just 4 seats in the Knesset. Meretz has zero in the current Knesset.

Yesh Atid, a centrist party has 24 seats, National Unity, a mostly centrist bloc with 12. A right wing secular party of Yisrael Beiteinu with 6 seats, United Arab list, and Hadash–Ta'al, two mainly Israeli-Arab parties, with 5 seats each.

The current government consists of right wing, to far right wing nationalist/religious nationalist parties, along with UTJ, and Shas.

UTJ, and Shas in the past didn't care if the rest of the coalition was right or left wing, as long as they got their money for their yeshivas, and so their men could sit all day and read the Talmud, instead of working. But they have become even more nationalist over time, stopped supporting any centrist governments.

The Israeli left needs to unite, get out the vote. One party to represent them, and vote as a bloc.

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