Israel’s fateful election, where democracy itself is on the defensive GlobeDebate
Letters to My Palestinian NeighborThe outcome of next Tuesday’s Israeli elections could determine not only the policies of the Jewish state but its most basic democratic identity.
Centrist Israelis have two nightmares about a Palestinian state. The first is right-wing: that in ceding the West Bank, Israel will be withdrawing to borders barely 14 kilometres wide , unable to adequately defend itself in a disintegrating Middle East.
If, as polls are predicting, the right-wing bloc wins on Tuesday, Israel’s five-decade debate over the future of the territories won in the 1967 war may be approaching its moment of decision. Elements within Mr. Netanyahu’s coalition have vowed that, immediately following the formation of a new right-wing government, they will initiate legislation annexing parts of the West Bank.
Mr. Feiglin’s apocalyptic fantasies are a symptom of the growing despair, especially among young Israelis, for rational political solutions to seemingly hopeless dilemmas such as ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. To some extent, the rise of anti-democratic sentiment here is part of a worldwide trend, from Viktor Orban’s Hungary to Donald Trump’s United States. But in Israel that trend is intensified by fears of terrorism and war, which can break out at any moment on any front.
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