The US intelligence community produced at least two assessments based in part on intelligence provided by Israel warning the Biden administration of an increased risk for Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the weeks ahead of Saturday’s seismic attack on southern Israel, according to sources familiar with the intelligence.
23.41% of the electorate voted for Likud in the last election.
The right wing bloc led by Netenyahu did not win a majority of votes in the election either.
In part due to a rule change, a few smaller anti-Netenyahu parties didn’t gain enough votes to meet the electoral threshold, which is why Netenyahu’s bloc gained a majority in the Knesset despite gaining less than 50% of the vote.
Israelis have been voting for increasingly far right politicians for years. The plain truth is that many of them are extremely comfortable with their government’s brutal treatment of the Palestinians. I’m certainly not attacking every Israeli voter, many don’t support their countries’ policies but enough do for it to continue.
You said that a majority of Israelis voted for Netenyahu. This is not true.
Earlier today I decided to read some opinion pieces in Haareetz. I kept reading comments similar to yours, and was wondering what actual Israelis think. Hareetz is a paper of record and luckily also available in English.
I’ll copy paste a few excerpts I found interesting. Hope you do to.
This:
Or this: