Panels conducted a poll broadcast on Knesset Channel June 10 2013.
Current Knesset seats in [brackets]
26 [31] Likud Beitenu
21 [15] Labor
17 [19] Yesh Atid
13 [12] Bayit Yehudi
10 [11] Shas
09 [06] Mertez
05 [07] Yahadut Hatorah/UTJ
04 [06] Movement
04 [04] Hadash
03 [04] Ra’am-Ta’al
03 [03] Balad
03 [00] Strong Israel
02 [02] Kadima
57 [61] Right-Religious
63 [59] Center-Left-Arab
Was Am Shalem not an option in the poll, or did it just suddenly lose 2 seats?
It was an option on the poll and it fell below the 2% threshold.
Pretty clear that the public is getting tired of the drain the settlements are putting on Israel’s finances and international standing. As this poll indicates as well:
http://news.walla.co.il/?w=%2F9%2F2650176
Based on the Panels poll, the center-left-Arab grouping could be 73, with Shas added.
Enough of the tail wagging the dog.
Uhh Giora what drain are you talking about? If you were to build those same communities inside the Green Line you’d still have to spend the same money on infrastructure that people complain about, and if the towns would be built in the north or south they’d also get the preferential spending as periphery areas. So again, what on earth are you talking about?
You wouldn’t be building the same communities inside the green line, certainly not to that extent. The housing in the west bank is dictated by politics, not the housing market.
https://knessetjeremy.com/2013/06/10/panels-knesset-channel-poll-likud-beitenu-26-labor-21-yesh-atid-17-bayit-yehudi-13-shas-10/
That’s just silly. There most definitely are the same kinds of communities built inside the Green Line; you obviously haven’t traveled much in Israel. And today the growth of settlements is constricted by politics much more than it is aided; if it were simply left to the housing market it would be much, much more than it is today. These are private building projects today, done in the same fashion as building in communities inside the Green Line.
To conclude that they are “constricted” by politics you’d have to believe they have a right to be there in the first place. They don’t.