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Party chairwoman Shelly Yacimovich heads Labor. She supports occupation harshness, settlement expansions, and other hardline policies.
Party platform and policy papers disagree. Latter ones matter more. They ignore peace. They support hardline security and defense issues. They oppose the right of return. They prioritize controlling Occupied Palestine.
Labor calls itself a Likud/Yisrael Beiteinu alternative. Its policies replicate their extremism. They show what Israelis and Palestinians face. Traditional Labor supporters spurn her.
Parties representing their interests won't win enough seats to matter. Some will be entirely shut out. Hardline government remains dominant. Worse than ever times approach.
On January 7, Haaretz called Netanyahu a "weak prime minister." Public sentiment views him as a "default" choice. He's not a popular favorite.
"Politicians are drawn like magnets to power and repelled by weakness. They have no choice.""If they behave otherwise, they will have trouble surviving. When they smell blood or fear, they sink their teeth into their adversaries and tear them to shreds, leaving them for dead by the roadside."
Avigdor Lieberman is Netanyahu's "natural partner." He faces fraud, breach of trust, and moral turpitude charges. He's damaged goods.
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