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Originally Posted by _Q_
That's 10% and form a sizeable chunk of the ruling 68 member coalition (Israeli politics work differently than Canada's where coalition governments are formed between rival parties). That's only 8 less seats than Netanyahu's Likud party.
The Jewish Home party's leader, Naftali Bennett who is currently Israel's Minister of Industry, isn't much better than Shaked either
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...i-bennett.html
His idea of how to create peace is to Anex Area C, which comprises 68% of the West Bank and transfer control of the remainder to the Palestinian Authority thus creating South Africa style Bantustans.
Truly scary stuff!
My point with all of this is, in a liberal democracy, parties like this don't exist. They wouldn't have much of a following are are generally illegal. In Israeli style democracy, these parties aren't just legal, but are included in a coalition. |
A major issue is that you're holding Israel to a North American standard of politics. If you look at countries in Europe almost all have extremist nationalist political parties that routinely win 5-10% of the vote. Those countries aren't embroiled in a nationalist/religious war either. Well the Ukraine is and Ireland used to be, and both countries have relatively a high amount of nationalist voters.
Also, Israel does outlaw any party that promotes violence.