The article argues that Israeli politics remains largely unchanged despite the events since 7 October 2023, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud projected at about 24 seats, right-wing parties together exceeding 70 of 120 Knesset seats, and roughly 60 percent of Israelis still identifying as right-wing.

It notes that leading figures such as Netanyahu, Avigdor Liberman, Naftali Bennett, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Bezalel Smotrich continue to dominate, while the new centrist list led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot is not expected to shift policy on the Palestinians.

Doyle observes that, aside from the Democrats, no major party supports a two-state solution or withdrawal from Gaza, all treat Jerusalem as undivided and the Jordan Valley as permanent, and Palestinian parties may hold the balance without being able to alter the overall rightward consensus.

One of the most extraordinary features of the current Israeli election campaign is just how little Israeli politics has changed. We have largely the same characters, the same policy discussions and the same break-up of the vote in terms of right, center and left as was the case four years ago.

Imagine. Israel suffered one of the worst attacks and security failures in its history on Oct. 7, 2023. Following that, it embarked on a genocide and doubled down on its regime of apartheid in the West Bank. It has engaged Iran in multiple stages of an ongoing war, invaded Lebanon, occupied yet more of Syria and exchanged attacks with the Houthis in Yemen.

Yet, after all that, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud may still get........

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