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Americans are stuck with Obama and likeminded hardliners. Israelis have Netanyahu and Israel's most extremist government in history.
Jeff Halper asked what did Israeli elections "tell us? Do Israelis want peace or not?"
It wasn't a campaign issue. Dominant parties didn't discuss it. Security is a "euphemism for keeping the Palestinians at bay." It's also about hyping a nonexistent Iranian existential threat.
Israeli sentiment differs from parties they elected. Why didn't they choose more wisely? Why didn't they vote "for a government that would genuinely end the Occupation and (deliver) peace, and with that personal security and economic prosperity?"
Halper suggest three reasons why not:
(1) Generations of Israeli Jews think peace with Arabs can't work. Propaganda says so ad nauseam.
(2) Successive Israeli governments spurned peace. They created "facts on the ground" to avoid it.
(3) Israelis have other priorities. Peace matters less than economic well-being and other daily issues. Israelis focus ones mattering more.
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