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Originally Posted by Fuzz
"Ben-Gvir, Israel's firebrand national security minister"
This seems more than just some obscure back bencher. This is the guy heavily involved making the calls.
Is it so hard to comprehend there are Israeli's that feel this way?
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Israeli politics are far more varied than anything in North America. The parliamentary system is also extremely fractured and forming any kind of government relies on forming alliances with fringe parties and attracting fringe voters.
The far right's dreams are no more likely to be fulfilled than those of the communist members who end up as coalitions on the left.
There's literally a party called the "Communist Party of Israel" that holds 3 seats. This is their official party logo:
There are about 60 political parties that run for election in Israel and many of those parties are actually composed of alliances of multiple parties:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ties_in_Israel
Choosing any member of the Knesset as representative of all Israelis is absurd.