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Yair Golan's party: The Democrats 4 mandates out of 120 = 3.3% of the population. An important note: 4 more mandate of its retroactively merged party Meretz were burned in the last elections due to getting under the treshold of 3.25%, therefore its real power is 6.6% of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Democrats_(Israel) Spiral Dynamics: 🟠🟢🟢

Gantz's party: Blue And White 8 mandates out of 120 = 6.6% of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_and_White_(political_party) Spiral Dynamics: 🔵🟠🟢

Lapid's party: There Is a Future 23 mandates out of 120 = 19% of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesh_Atid Spiral Dynamics: 🟠🟢 1. I assume it based on a quite healthy Blue I don't think this is the main emphasize of this party so no need to mention it. 2. At least half of Israelis interpret "Zionism" as simply Jews aspiration to have their own land. I suggest to not get too seriously into this word. It is a tricky word with many problems to it in my opinion. This word is being distorted and interpreted completely differently depending on the specific camp's pre-existing views, inside the country and abroad.

Netanyahu's party: Likud 32 mandates out of 120 = 27% of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud Spiral Dynamics: 🔵🟠 Note: Netanyahu over the years made the party less liberal as he added more and more members who are convenient to him politically. Therefore this party in the past had a little bit of stage green too, as secondary and relatively minor.

@Breakingthewall You are right this is dangerous, as long as the government refuses to establish a permanent border (in a form of secured perimeter).

Smotrich Party: The Religious Zionism Have 7 mandates out of 120 = 6% of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Zionist_Party Spiral Dynamics: 🔴🔵🔵 Intuitively I feel Blue is much more dominant here, but not only. Some Red most likely exists - in the extreme margins. Religious Zionism sector has also healthy aspects of contribution, helping others, love of the land, partnerships. No more stage Red from now on in Israeli parties (luckily 😶‍🌫️) the hardest part is behind us.

Ben Gvir Party: Jewish Strength (translated) The most extreme party have ever been in Israel. Have 4 mandates out of 120 = 3.3% of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otzma_Yehudit Spiral Dynamics: 🔴🔵

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Israelis stance on Palestinian state is quite complex even after Oct7

A sample of the public's diversity of opinions (again, emphsizing on those unseen in the international media) regarding the continuation of the war from recent months from posts I added to the news thread.

Actually I was surprised. Generally she addresses rational reasons like in the times she talked a lot about the withdrawal issues of her and her father and still reminds it sometimes.

There is a deal! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPk53wliKVc/?igsh=bjU5OGJpaDFwdWI5

@Hardkill Yellow differs from Blue in his flowness, flexibility, subtleness, harmony, curiosity and all of those can be imprinted into one's conservative lifestyle.

All those things seemed very bad and not honest to my eyes as an Israeli when I saw and heard about them. This is the intuitive feeling I remember. And yes, boycott is exactly what will make the second side to soften and agree, very smart. They have rejected couple of serious offers including actual Israeli withdrawals in the 90s and 00s.

The Facebook feed is full of posts on oct7 due to the memorial day. I'll add to here one of them: " On October 7, 2023, I understood for the first time what true shock is. Not the kind that lasts a moment — but the kind that strikes the soul. I felt the air of the world change. Suddenly, every story I had ever heard as a child about the surprise of the Yom Kippur War came alive. It was no longer a distant tale with dates and black-and-white photos, but a living, breathing, screaming reality. In an instant, I understood what it means for a person to lose the sense of safety in their own home — when an iron shelter door or a guard at the kibbutz gate no longer promise anything. When words like pogrom, massacre, Black Sabbath, and Holocaust stop belonging to history lessons and become words in one’s personal diary. That morning — which was still night in the United States, where I was staying — I grew up. I aged. Something cracked inside me. Something in the smile, the innocence, the faith that “it won’t happen again” — simply fell away. Suddenly, even the simplest routines — making coffee, turning on the radio, smiling at a child on the way to school, or writing a few lines in the next book — carried a different weight. Two years have passed since. Time, they say, heals everything. But it’s not true. Time doesn’t heal — it only teaches us how to walk with our scars. In these two years I’ve been asking myself what home really is. Is it the walls? The address? Or perhaps home is the people we choose to keep in our hearts. Maybe it’s the memory of a scent, a hug, a gaze that says, “I’m here.” I’ve come to understand that home is both what we’ve lost and what we rebuild — brick by brick, hope by hope. And perhaps that is the essence of life itself: to realize how fragile it all is. How temporary. How quickly everything can fall apart — and how amazing it is that a human being, time and again, chooses to gather the pieces, place them one upon another, and create a new shape out of them. On October 7, I learned what pain is. But since then, slowly, I am also learning what rebirth means. It doesn’t happen in a single day, nor with a cry. It begins with a breath. A look. A decision to get up in the morning and say: I’m still here. And I still believe in good. In memory of Dvir Karp Yuval Abramovitz https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Zs4NiDm2j/

The Opposition was unanimously against this law, written by Netanyahu's Coalition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People

About 26% of the Palestinians are integrated in Israeli society in many high status professions in medicine (+10-20% above their % in the population which is quite impressive) and academia (-4%, almost normal), though underrepresented in law (-9%), academic lecturers, security (-20%), high-tech (-17%) and senior public positions (-17%). Still can reach senior positions but in smaller numbers.