ABSTRACT
The Palestinian had attempted to carry out a knife attack in Hebron and was severely wounded when confronted by Israeli soldiers. The coalition between the Israeli center-right, the Likud and a plethora of far-right parties has been characteristic of all of Netanyahu's administrations. Throughout Zionist and Israeli history, there had often been moves from the left to the right—for ideological reasons, in response to personal rebukes, for opportunist motivations, for simply reading the mood of the Israeli public. Ironically the origins of the Israeli right lie in the ideological turmoil that permeated European Marxism at the beginning of the twentieth century. The far-right and the center-right Likud accounted for sixty-seven seats—and if the centrist Kulanu is added, this increases to seventy seven. While violence reigns in the Islamic and Arab worlds, there is little appetite for change amongst the Israeli electorate.
