Tuesday’s election were an extreme expression of the public’s indifference to the Palestinians. Aside from Tzipi Livni and Meretz on the Left, and the failed Otzma L’Yisrael far right party, all the parties either paid scant attention to the Palestinians or ignored them completely. Twenty years after Yitzhak Rabin shook Yassir Arafat’s hand on the White House lawn, Israelis just don’t want to hear about the peace process, or two-state solution, or absence of a peace process and the failure of the two-state solution anymore. They’ve been there. They’ve done that.
Yair Lapid, the surprise of the elections with his extraordinary 19 mandates, said the support for his Yesh Atid party shows that Israelis simply want to embrace normality. And, among other things, that means, they just want to be left alone to do their thing. Sheli Yahimovich of the Labor Party based her entire campaign on ignoring the Palestinians and attacking capitalism.
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Naftali Bennett and the Bayit Yehudi party did talk about the Palestinians, and he does have a plan for applying Israeli law to 60 percent of Judea and Samaria. He also said that the peace process is over and there will be neither negotiations nor a Palestinian state. But the focus of his campaign wasn’t the Palestinians, it was Jewish unity, pride and national resolve.
For his part, to the extent he ran on any issues at all, Netanyahu ran on the Shiite crescent – Iran, Syria and Lebanon. He claimed they are all afraid of him. He had almost nothing to say about the Palestinians aside from his pledge not to expel large numbers of Jews from their homes in his next term in office.
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