great analysis on centre-left
I’ve been silent on the Israeli election partly because I’ve been on the road, and partly because I’m pretty upset with the result. But having read a few overhyped op-eds and other posts, it’s time to offer a little perspective.
Lost in all the hyperbole are a few small facts:
(1) Likud gained primarily at the expense of parties further to the right. Consider that the combined Likud-Bayit Yehudi-Yisrael Beiteinu vote in this election is just short of 35%. In 2013, these parties amounted to 32.4%. Not exactly a massive swing to the right, as it is being portrayed. But Likud alone won just over 23% this time, whereas the blended list of Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu won about that much last time, while Bayit Yehudi fell from 9.1% to 6.4%. Strategic voting happens even under extreme PR!.
(2) This campaign never offered a realistic path to a center-left…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Mar 19, 2015 @ 16:52:54
the election was called well ahead of time in the expectation of an easy victory.
Didn’t exactly work out like that. not exactly hard to understand Likud gaining votes after the blatantly racist rhetoric of the last week.
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Mar 19, 2015 @ 19:23:00
they gobbled up other parties of the right
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