Tel-Chai Nation

One of the best things about the Likud's victory in this year's election is how it can help the Jewish population growth in Judea/Samaria:

The strong showing by the right wing of Israeli politics in Tuesday’s Knesset election is giving hope to leading Israeli activists for communities in Judea and Samaria that the number of Jews living in the area will be allowed to increase significantly.

“The Likud and the right have succeeded and now they have to get to work and expand the entire area, to say ‘welcome’ to two million Jews in Judea and Samaria,” said Daniella Weiss, one of the leaders of the Nachala movement, in an interview with the Arutz Sheva news outlet.

Her movement says that it organizes groups of young couples whose goal is to establish new communities from northern Samaria to southern Judea.

“It is not enough to add housing units in existing communities, but rather to maintain legal state building throughout the entire area,” Weiss told Arutz Sheva, adding that “we also need to establish a bank that will provide comfortable mortgages for all the young couples who will come.”

Weiss expressed the hope that on the heels of his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, U.S. President Donald Trump would also recognize Israeli sovereignty in Shechem and Hebron, which Weiss referred to as “inalienable assets of the Jewish people.”

“Every boy and girl who grows up in this period should know after the victory of the right that the entire land of Israel is ours and we will no longer live in enclaves,” the settlement activist told Arutz Sheva.

Recognizing the importance and significance of Hebron and Shechem, for example, is another key element in improving Israel's status, and I hope it'll come up next in what's to come.

While it's excellent that the right's had a victory, Naftali Bennett's "New Right" party, it turns out, won't be in the Knesset, having otherwise flopped, and he'll have to be held accountable, because he just had to split from the Union of Right-Wing Parties, all out of some bizarre notion he could draw in more nationalists who weren't of the more religious variety. I'm sorry, but it just doesn't work out that way, and if there's a lesson to be learned in this election, it's that, if you run in as divided a manner as Bennett did, you cannot be shocked if it'll lead to more potential customers voting for Likud instead. Especially when Bennett went miles out of his way to use scare tactics claiming Netanyahu would literally form a government with Gantz's party, all past positive achievements be damned. Now, as a result, Bennett's also cost Ayelet Shaked her Knesset seat. I'd recommend the Likud continue to employ her as justice minister in a non-parliamentary role, an idea which has been done on occasion before, but Bennett can decidedly retire after all the trouble he caused. The right-wing is decidedly better off without him.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, Jerusalem, Knesset, United States, White House