Far-Left Parties Hoping To Attract Disappointed Right-Wing Voters Because At Least Total Surrender Would Be Decisive

“This possibility allows us not to have to change anything.”

Tel Aviv, February 20 – The functionally-moribund “peace” camp in Israeli politics has expressed a spark of new optimism in recent weeks at its electoral prospects, as they cling to the possibility that they can muster support from citizens disillusioned by the camp opponents’ longtime political and military approach to “managing” the conflict with the Palestinians instead of ending it once and for all – which the peace camp believes it can accomplish by, effectively, giving up on the Zionist project and letting the chips – and Jewish heads – fall where they may.

Far-left activists and politicians voiced their hope in multiple interviews over the last month or so that the decisiveness that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his successive governments and predecessors have failed to achieve in the hundred-year-old conflict, owing to reluctance to to take possibly-extreme measures necessary to do so, might, if manifest in the now-marginalized far left, attract traditional right-wing voters into supporting policies that, while they will fail to protect Jews from Islamist terrorism and oppression, will at least bring a decisive end to the decades-old stalemate.

“We’re hearing a lot of criticism of Bibi, that he’s a waffler who never wants to do anything bold that might end things for good,” explained Yossi Beilin, a longtime advocate for surrender in the guise of goodwill concessions to empower so-called Palestinian moderates. “But the right-wingers keep voting for him or his allies anyway, time after time. We tell ourselves all sorts of things about why voters favor the right wing, in ever-growing numbers, and at our expense – always things that flatter us and disparage Bibi, his allies, and their voters – but maybe the lack of decisiveness is the main thing?”

“We can hope,” agreed MK Yair Golan of The Democrats, which merged far-left Meretz with the remnants of Labor, once an electoral juggernaut and now barely a shell. Polls indicate that separately, neither party would meet the electoral threshold to reach the Knesset. “Analysts have been diagnosing our problem as leaning too far left and not in touch with mainstream Israeli opinion – but this possibility allows us not to have to change anything, ideologically, but still maybe attract voters who want a decisive resolution to the conflict with the Palestinians.”

“We can offer that decisiveness,” he asserted. “And we will have to wager that enough voters also want that decisiveness, their country’s and families’ safety and security being a small thing to sacrifice for the sake of that decisiveness.”

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