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As western media pore over the maths of Israel's election results, it is easy to overlook the big picture. Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in starving Gaza’s population, won the largest share of the vote last week. He is still Israel’s most popular politician. Any government that might emerge from the current post-election talks – even were it to be supported by the Palestinian parties – would be dominated by the extreme right. An opposition-led coalition will be no less hawkish and vehemently hostile to the Palestinians, whether those under occupation or those with Israeli “citizenship”, than a Netanyahu-led one. Although this was the first election since Israel launched its genocidal rampage through Gaza in late 2023, debate about the genocide was absent from the campaign trail – as was nay discussion of the intensifying pogroms by settler terrorists on Palestinian communities in the West Bank. These are non-issues. There is an absolute Jewish consensus that Israel should be a Middle East Sparta, terrorising and slaughtering its neighbours. And if Netanyahu senses he may lose his grip on power, he has every incentive to step up the bombing of Gaza and restart his war of aggression on Iran. This master politician understands how well that will play with most Israeli Jews. Meanwhile, a poll earlier this year showed that Israel’s young are more fanatically rightwing and fervently religious than ever. Only 5 percent identify as leftwing. Channel 12 invited into its studios a representative sample of these 18 to 21-year-olds. Out of 12, all but one answered that they were against Israel's Palestinian parties being allowed to sit in the parliament – let alone join a government. These new voters are gradually shifting Israeli politics ever further to the far right. This election was stark confirmation that Britain’s Green party was decisively right to adopt a new policy last month at its conference that declared Zionism – the political ideology underpinning Israel as a Jewish state – to be racist. It was the warped logic of Zionism, not some need for security, that propelled Israel into levelling Gaza and killing and maiming many tens of thousands of Palestinian children. And it is the same racist logic that makes it impossible for Israel’s Jewish parties to reach a compromise with the Palestinian minority to oust Netanyahu. The overwhelming majority in Israel is bent on the eradication of the Palestinians. Western politicians and media stubbornly cling to the idea that Israel’s racist, genocidal behaviour is peculiar to Netanyahu, and can be fixed by an election. The next weeks will prove, once again, how wrong they are. This is an extract from my latest article Israel’s election shows its democracy is a sham, but the West can’t stop buying the lie. Find a link to read the rest in the reply post ⬇️