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Voters expect the incoming Netanyahu government to clean up the mess that Lapid and his colleagues are leaving behind, and to push Israel forward. The only way for Netanyahu and his partners to meet these expectations is by making far-reaching reforms to the legal system.
Those clutching their pearls over the “fascists” poised to join Israel’s new government should look in the mirror.
The vote was a national referendum on the tremendous damage caused cycle after election cycle by opposing parliamentarians who conspired to block the people’s choice from serving as prime minister.
Democrats don’t want Netanyahu or a right-wing/religious government in Jerusalem. But what they really don’t want is for the Jewish state’s voters to determine their own fate.
If the exit polls hold true, Netanyahu has a clear path to forming a right-wing government and returning to power. Yet, in previous election cycles, mandates shifted during the manual counting of Israel’s paper ballots.
The ability of woke leftists to enshrine the toxic myths of CRT are on the line at the Supreme Court as it debates discriminatory admissions.
Anti-Semites want to take advantage of the platform, but efforts by liberal groups like the ADL to promote censorship of political speech are undermining, rather than defending, democracy.
The real issue dividing Israeli society isn’t former premier Benjamin Netanyahu or the economy, but something far more basic: Israeli society is being torn apart by the issue of national sovereignty.
Let this sink in: According to the chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, if the public grants a majority to Netanyahu, Israel will morph into a combination of Nazi Germany and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The contrast between the speed with which the private sector moved to condemn Kanye West’s anti-Semitism and the stubborn persistence of outdated, unhelpful and anti-Semitic notions about Israel at the U.N. is frankly painful to observe.
Why is coverage of certain issues—like Israel—so one-sided? The midterm election once again proved that many reporters suppress the truth to bolster their position in any dispute.
Conservative despair about the liberal erosion of the West is delivering it to its mortal foes.