This means that the campaign of intimidation of Israelis by Arabs, on which the prime minister relied, worked" - political scientist Abbas Galiamov on the parliamentary elections in Israel "The official slogan of the Likud was the statement "Yimin or Palestine". Despite the fact that none of the Prime Minister's critics actually called for the establishment of a Palestinian state, he stubbornly put the issue at the center of the agenda, proving that once the opposition comes to power, they will immediately show their true pro-Palestinian face. The Likudniks flooded the social networks with artificial intelligence videos depicting the opposition leaders as children sitting in the back seat of a car driven by the heads of the Arab parties; where the last ones smoked hookah in Knesset meetings, etc., etc. In general, Netanyahu convinced the country that he is the only guarantor that an independent Palestine will not be established next to Israel. Obviously, this is a very painful issue for Israelis. On October 7, they already saw what this Land of Israel holds. The Hamas invasion was the final chord for the existence of an independent Gaza, from which, as we know, Israel withdrew back in 2005. If before October 7 it was still possible to debate whether this was the right decision or not, after the massacre there could no longer be two opinions. Judging by the election results, which were not predicted by sociologists, most of the undecided responded exactly to Netanyahu's anti-Arab horror stories. We must understand: the very fact that those who were undecided were undecided until the last moment indicates that they actually did not really want to vote for Likud. Something disturbed them. The fact that they finally did so indicates that they found the Likud's latest arguments more convincing than those of its critics. Well, since intimidation dominated the prime minister's speech by a huge margin, we have every reason to assume that this is what worked." Read in full on the Echo website.

This means that the campaign of intimidation of Israelis by Arabs, on which the prime minister relied, worked" - political scientist Abbas Galiamov on the parliamentary elections in Israel "The official slogan of the Likud was the statement "Yimin or Palestine". Despite the fact that none of the Prime Minister's critics actually called for the establishment of a Palestinian state, he stubbornly put the issue at the center of the agenda, proving that once the opposition comes to power, they will immediately show their true pro-Palestinian face. The Likudniks flooded the social networks with artificial intelligence videos depicting the opposition leaders as children sitting in the back seat of a car driven by the heads of the Arab parties; where the last ones smoked hookah in Knesset meetings, etc., etc. In general, Netanyahu convinced the country that he is the only guarantor that an independent Palestine will not be established next to Israel. Obviously, this is a very painful issue for Israelis. On October 7, they already saw what this Land of Israel holds. The Hamas invasion was the final chord for the existence of an independent Gaza, from which, as we know, Israel withdrew back in 2005. If before October 7 it was still possible to debate whether this was the right decision or not, after the massacre there could no longer be two opinions. Judging by the election results, which were not predicted by sociologists, most of the undecided responded exactly to Netanyahu's anti-Arab horror stories. We must understand: the very fact that those who were undecided were undecided until the last moment indicates that they actually did not really want to vote for Likud. Something disturbed them. The fact that they finally did so indicates that they found the Likud's latest arguments more convincing than those of its critics. Well, since intimidation dominated the prime minister's speech by a huge margin, we have every reason to assume that this is what worked." Read in full on the Echo website.