The decline of the Israeli left
As the Palestinian issue has faded, so have Israel’s left-wing parties
“PEACE HAS become a dirty word.” That was the main reason given by Tzipi Livni (pictured) for quitting politics on February 18th. Over the course of two decades in the Knesset, Ms Livni, once a protégé of Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s nationalist prime minister, came to support the establishment of a Palestinian state. But too many voters moved in the opposite direction. Her party, Hatnuah, was unlikely to win any seats in April’s election, in which it will no longer take part.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Labour pain”
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