Results from Tuesday’s election show Netanyahu and his party's far-right allies won 64 seats in the Knesset, enough votes to form a parliamentary majority.
In terms of what Lara Friedman tweeted about the State Department removing Kach and Kahane Chai from—Kahane Chai, I’m sorry, is a sort of offshoot of Kach that emerged in the wake of Meir Kahane’s assassination in 1990—I think what Lara Friedman is saying is absolutely correct. And I don’t think it is the State Department alone that has played a role in this normalization that she discusses.
I think it is also of a piece with a wider marginalization of Ben-Gvir and Kahanism that I think will unavoidably be revisited now but that has played a big role in downplaying the threat posed by his ideology and its potential to win power in the Israeli government. I think if we want to put things into a little bit of more familiar context for watchers here in the U.S., the effect has been a little bit like what happened with Trump during his rise to power before becoming elected president.
The same thing happened with Ben-Gvir in Israel-Palestine. He was so long dismissed as an unpleasant, horrendous but marginal phenomenon but the second that he got into the Knesset, he started being invited repeatedly onto Israeli news shows. There is a statistic from earlier this year that said within a given period, he was only second to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in terms of airtime that he received on the Israeli media.
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