We need elections and we need them now. Giving the people the opportunity to let their vote determine the answer to the critical questions that are tearing us apart is the only fair solution with a chance to bring healing and to avoid disaster.

For many months, while some have called for elections, many have insisted that now is not the time. We’re in a war. Elections are divisive and we need to be united in fighting this existential war together. But if these reasons were ever compelling, after over a year and a half of war, they are far less so. Like it or not, we have reached the point at which the continuation of the war has lost its absolute consensus and has itself become a point of deep contention, with a recent poll showing that 69% of Israelis prefer to stop the war and return the hostages. However divisive elections are, the alternatives are now far more dangerous.........

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