Steering Right, Left, and Center – how to 4HQ the Elections!

In Israel the meaning of Left, Right, and Center has little to do with a party’s stance on the welfare state, economic policies, religion and LGBTQ. In Israel these political directional terms still seem to circle around one issue alone: The Palestinians. Should they have their own State, or not?

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What drives Israelis to the center? Yossi Klein HaLevi VIDEO

Yossi Klein Halevi speaks of rejecting two forms of forgetting. He suggests that there are those who forget that Israel has mortal enemies, and those who forget that Israel is an oppressor. The fact that our mortal enemies are also the victims of our oppression, suggests HaLevi, creates the paradox of the Israeli soul.

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