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More than 5.65 million Israelis were eligible to vote. Around 3.6 million did so. Turnout was 63.7%. Results were 4% higher than 2009.
Whatever parties partner in coalition government, one thing is clear. Israel's 19th Knesset will be its most extremist in history. What's called center-left is right-wing to hard-right.
All dominant parties support belligerence, occupation ruthlessness, settlement expansions, and neoliberal harshness.
Israelis have four more years to reflect on their choices. Palestinians and Israeli Arabs have the greatest cross to bear.
Media postmortems followed. Haaretz calls Netanyahu "a man of the past." On January 23, Israelis awoke to "uncertainty." Voting ended but not the election.
Israelis expressed less confidence in Netanyahu than he hoped. Partnered with Avigdor Lieberman lost him support.
He "failed," said Haaretz. He "failed in the political sphere, the foreign policy sphere, and the socioeconomic sphere."
His leadership failed. He "cast(s) a pall over us if he survives in power." Most Israelis distrust him for good reason. He represents a direction most reject.
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