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Originally Posted by Hakan
Jeez as a political science student I would have hoped for better coming from you Peter.
Fundamentalist-extremist parties in the Israeli Knesset have disproportional power. Setters and de-facto 'non-israelis' with perhaps the most extreme zionist views find themselves holding the balance between the Likud party (israel's already right party) and victory. Likud then moves even more to the extremist right in coalition building and in gaining support.
So in other words, your statement is quite wrong.
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Jeez Hakan, if you are a political science student, I would have hoped for some up to date research.
The governing party is the Kadima party (mainly Sharon's party that split from Likud, to form a more centrist party). It formed a coalition with Labour, the Pensioners Party, and Shas (a religious based party).
Likud (14 seats) and United Torah Judaisim (6 seats) sit outside the government. Interestingly enough, the Arab parties have a combined 10 seats. The newest radical party - that ran on an election platform of "population transfer" (euphamisim for making all Arabs move to Arab countries) got 11 seats, mainly playing to the large Russian community in Israel.
So, the so-called settler's parties (Likud & UTJ) hold 20 of 120 seats. The centrists hold 67 seats - how do the extremists hold the balance of power in Israel then?
And please define "Defacto non-Israelis"? I am not sure who they are. Are they 'forgien settlers'? Recent immagrants? Jews living out side of Israel who donate money to "settlers' parties'?